[redacted]- log date 323
What went wrong, she hasn't emoted since. I didn't think what I did would have this effect. She can't even smile. I thought I had cured her, I thought she was fixed, I knew I shouldn't have tampered with something so valuable, so precious, so irreplaceable. This will be my last log.
Chapter one memory
Question seventeen: what was the cause of the Louisiana purchase. Day October 12, slide 14, bullet point three, the Napoleonic wars needed more funding. Answer b. Napoleonic wars.
I get up and put my test into the basket at the front of the room. As usual I'm the first one done, I would do homework if I had any. I pull out a scrap sheet of paper and start writing down the questions and the answers to the test I took, I circle the correct answers. I gently fold the paper into thirds, walk to the trash can, and throw it away. There is still 40 minutes left in class, susan, john, and Michel have also finished their test. I start to feel anxious, so I pull out another sheet of paper and start writing the script to the ice age. I watched it when I was 11, June, 19, 2014, when I was eleven. It was the time when my father tried to get me into movies, we watched iron man, ice age, the Incredibles, the notebook, and the titanic. It never caught on, if they were not loud they were all boring, and it forced me to sit and do essentially nothing for 2 hours. As I'm 3 pages in the bell rings, so I throw the papers away and head towards lunch.
Food is one thing I can understand. Most of the time, when people say they like or dislike something I don't get it. The bell dismissing lunch rings, I get up and head to the bathroom like I have for the past 128 school days. If I do this than I won't have to use the bathroom until the end of the day. Next period is math, and just like all other subjects it is simply memorization and application. If it weren't for English I would have 100's in all of my classes, as I ace all of the tests I take, however I am forced to do seminars in English, and talking to people is not my strong suit, however i still have a 97 average. I know that I will be valedictorian, outside of some freak accident where I die, it is the most likely outcome.
I get home, at 2:30, 6 minutes later than the average, there was an accident on long stone street.
"Hey honey" my dad says.
"Hey" I say
"Did you make any friends" he asks, I don't understand why he always asks this, he has asked this same question every day this school year.
"No" I say, the obvious answer I've given him 68 times before.
"Well that's unfortunate" he says
"It's predictable" I say
"Hey tori" he says
"What?" I ask
"I love you" he says
"I am aware" i say
"I'm gonna get you to smile some day," he says
"You've said that 242 times this year" I say "and 890 times in the last five, you've said it 62% more so far this year than last year. Your 8 attempts to make me smile so far have failed, none worse than fishing however"
"Yeah" he says "you didn't talk to me for weeks after that"
"3 weeks to be specific" I say "it's what happens when you force me to do something so uninteresting. For some unknown reason it seems like you like talking to me, so it was appropriate punishment."
"Would you like to go get ice cream?" he asks.
"Can I bring my Rubik's cube" I ask
"Yes" he says. Although this breaks my schedule, I have what my dad calls a sweet tooth. I sit passenger, and dad drives, I mess with my 6 by 6 Rubik's Cube, I know how to solve it in all scenarios, but it still occupies about 3 minutes of my time when I'm not trying, however when I am I can easily break any world record for Rubik's cube, but that serves me no purpose.
We arrive at cold stone, and we walk inside. My dad says "I'm guessing you're getting the usual?"
"Yes" I say
"You know you're allowed to branch out and try something different?" he asks
"Well a waffle cone with salted caramel ice cream has the best taste to price ratio" I say
"You know that money isn't an issue," he says "mom kinda set us up for life"
"Well yes" I say "but it's the responsibility of every citizen to contribute to capitalism, only buying the best, most efficient product, even for the upper class in order to encourage lower prices"
"I listened to NPR once with you in the car" he says "and it seems like you understand capitalism better than I do"
"You've done that twice" I say "although the first time was after the el Paso shooting"
My dad goes up to the counter and orders for us, after 5 minutes he walks out with both his and my food. He hands me my cone, the scoop is off center from the middle of the cone, but that's something licking can fix. My dad got the seasonal item, a peep sundae. We've gone to this cold stone 450 times, and for some reason I can't find a trend that my father follows when it comes to ordering despite the large sample size.
"Ya know" my dad says "your mother loved cold stone"
"I did know" I say "you've told me 35 times since inception"
"Yeah" he says, "I had a feeling."
"Statistically most people would have moved on" i say
"I'm never going to move on," he says, "but I'm definitely not in grief"
"That's what it means to move on"
"Sure technically" he says "while i can function fine on my own I still miss her"
"I guess that makes sense" I say
"You only remember 3 days with her" my dad asks
"Yes"
"Do we have any idea what caused the inception?" my dad asks
"No" I say
"So one day you're a normal kid" he continues "the next you basically have super powers
"It's a stretch to call it super powers" I say "but I do remember anything from july 5 2007 onward"
"I kinda wish it was a few days in the future" he says
"Why?" I ask
"Than you wouldn't have to remember the accident" he says
"I've told you 17 times it doesn't affect me" i say "also I only had one day of experience with her, the first one"
"Right" he says "you two got back from the beach house when this all started"
"She was mostly just concerned with my new behavior" I say as I angle my cone so my lick will have the best angle possible. I lick the left side so that the scoop corrects itself, the flavor is just as delicious as the past 135 times I've had it. I say " I know you feel sad because moms birthday is coming up, but it's just like every other day, and feeling sad is stupid and irrational"
"Well you definitely tried..." my dad mutters off "well you tried something at least"
"I tried to use logos" I say
"Well you started out good" he says "until you called me stupid"
"Well it is" I say "love in itself is dumb"
"Well at least I don't have to worry about boyfriends for a while" he says "but one day you will feel, and one day you will fall in love"
"I hope not" I say as my ice cream cone is now perfectly symmetrical
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Perfect Memory
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