Middle School Stories - Part Seven

Did I ever tell you that I had a thing about generics? I was so fascinated by them growing up. What made certain people in the family have one eye color but another person have another eye color? Why did one kid have brown hair but the next have blonde?

For most of my stories during my middle school years I focused a lot on hair color. Why? I'm not sure... maybe cause I wanted different colored hair and couldn't get it. Maybe cause I would notice hair color more than eye color, maybe because honestly how many people stare into each others eyes and can say, "yup, this person has green eyes?" I'm not sure...

I can tell you a great story about eye color... One of my high school boyfriends (now my husband) and I had been dating for several months and I was over at his house. I asked him what he liked best about me and he said, "My beautiful blue eyes". Now I'm gonna tell you right now... that is not the color of my eyes. He quickly back peddled and stated he was sorry and he totally meant to say brown (which is) my eye color. To make matters worse, his friend who I had just met that weekend, knew my eyes were brown.

I never let him down about it. To be fair, at the time I probably couldn't have told you his eye color without looking. (Which is blue). He later told me he said eyes because he thought it was too early in the relationship to say my boobs. Men are such dorks. :) I suppose he did something right though, cause I married him and today we've been together for 22 years and married 16 of those. (We started dating on August 31 and married on August 31).

What does this have to do with this story? Well this story was back to a Romeo and Juliet type story. It was called The War of Friendship and was about two groups who were at war.

The two groups could be told apart by the color of their uniforms. Green and blue. And strangely enough, their hair color sometimes matched their uniform color. This was the first story in sometime that had no supernatural elements to it. It was straight contemporary.

It followed green group, The Emeralds, Heather, Cindy, Amber and their leader William. They are trying to take out the "bad guys" the blue group, The Sapphires, Kevin and Seth. In fighting these two (I am positive it was more than just two people in that group, those were just the two I focused on) the Emeralds learned that The Sapphires were not as bad as they thought and they had a lot more in common then they first thought. So they start trying to make peace, instead of war.

The story was a huge 21 pages typed, single spaced, Probably Times New Roman 12 font. It had a very strong politic statement to it (given I was not very old it was likely not a very good politic statement) about how horrible war was and how people shouldn't fight and how peace was the answer. Though I think there was a slight undertone of romance I also think this was the first story that was not focused on it ending with people being together.

This is one I gave to a friend, and I'm not sure I ever got back.