Ivy’s Apology

Hey everyone, Sparky here. Guess what?

We found my prankster.

I’m sure Benny must have mentioned it by now (he was pretty proud of himself). Instead of being happy (that the pranks will stop), I actually feel awful; the prankster was someone I thought of as a friend.

It was Ivy.

She and I became pals last year when we canoed together. Apparently, she was hoping we could do that again this year – but I’ve been really busy! And I’ve been hanging out with my cabin-mates a lot…especially this new guy, Arnold. Unfortunately, Arnold is Ivy’s cousin. I had no idea, of course, (he never mentioned it), but Ivy thought I was ignoring her and spending too much time with him.

So she decided to try and get my attention. She said she left all sorts of clues to make it easy for me to figure out it was her…like putting a feather on the floor of our cabin (I pointed out that Arnold also has feathers, but she said hers are longer and we should’ve noticed). When I didn’t get the hint, she pulled the ‘poison ivy’ trick. When I still didn’t get it, she just got madder and madder.

I asked why she didn’t just ASK me to hang out with her. She said she did a bunch of  times, but I was always too busy with someone else.

So that’s why I feel bad. Neither of us has been a very good friend – but she took it too far.

Fluffington was REALLY mad. He made her apologize (which she did – about a million times) and then he told her that she’d have to go home. She started to cry and begged Fluffington to let her stay. He decided that maybe she could – but that she’d have to do nothing but chores for a whole, entire week. He also said she couldn’t see the play or participate in the Games. She agreed to the punishments, as long as she could stay.

As we left Fluffington’s office, she apologized again. She said that she understood if I didn’t want to talk to her ever again.

I think I’ll let her do her week of chores. Then maybe we’ll talk. And maybe we’ll even go for a canoe ride.