THE PEACEMAKER

THE PEACEMAKER:A person who has the ability to make peace with his or her natural surroundings.

Dear journal,
My name is Nichole Edwards. My friends and family call me Niquey (pronouced nicky). I am from *harlem* and the year is 2012. I am fourteen years old. I've been going to this school called Frederick Douglass Academy for three years now and I am just tired already. I am in the ninth grade. I have a great principal, I have teachers who are strong believers and some that are just plain crazy (Mr.Crazman), and great friends. Oh yeah! I just remembered why I was writing in this journal....My two best friends are totally not getting along. My friends' names are Shanay-nay and Chantinique. They are both like sisters to me and they are kind of protective sometimes. I've known Shanay-nay since we were 2 years old and Chantinique since 2nd grade. The problem is that Shanay-nay and Chantinique don't really like each other. Dear journal, this is my story of how I (the peacemaker) do my job.

Dear journal,
Today was another lousy day. My friends had another argument, my cat keeps jumping out the 2nd floor window of my apartment every other day, I'm on punishment for not cleaning my room and my New york State Tests are coming up in 5 days from now! The only reason my friends fight is because they both don't want to share me as a friend. Now, just because I'm the youngest out of the three of us, that does not mean anything! I can make my own decisions and right now, I don't want to be anyone's friend. I work too hard to be messing around with this problem right now and I need some time to myself and to get it together for this test. I want peace NOW! Today I explained my feelings with both my friends indivisually and Chantinique understood me but.......Shanay-nay took it the wrong way. This is the result of a bigger fight. GREAT! NOW WHAT! Shanay-nay went crazy after that and blaimed Chantinique for brain-washing me. ME! You don't want to mess with Shanay-nay. She will get somebody killed in one call to her infamous big brother, Deeptooth. Don't ask.
Deeptooth has been in jail since a little boy for selling drugs and attemped murder. Anyway, Shanay-nay told Chantinique to wait and see because she's not going see it coming. I just hope nothing happens.

Dear journal.
I'm crying now. I am so hurt. For the last 3 days my friends have been trying to put me in the middle of the situation. I don't even feel like I'm ready to take the ELA State Test tomorrow and you know what, I'm not even going to deal with them I'm going to have a meeting with the both of them and sit them down at a lunch table and talk about it in a calm and cool way. This is what I said:

Me:Yo! Shanay-nay come over hear! Sit with me for a minute.
Shanay-nay:NO!
Me:Just for a little while....Come on!
Shanay-nay:Fine.
Shanay-nay came over to the table and I called Chantinique. I was not surprised that they both said the samething.

Me:What's going on with you two?
They started to argue but I cut them both off.
Me:Why can't you guys just be normal people and share me as a friend.
Shanay-nay:But-
Me:Please just listen because I don't see what caused this whole fight.
Shanay-nay:You like her better than me and now you hang out with her more!
Chantinique:No she does not! She hangs out with you more than me.
Me:LISTEN! Right now, I have not been hanging around anyone because I need to study right now and I don't need this on my mind right now. Worst of all, the weather is getting more humid and hot and I don't have anytime. I treat you both with the same respect that I get from you girls. There is no favoritism. So say sorry!
Shanay-nay:sorry.
Chantinique:sorry.

Dear journal,
I feel like I did very well on my test and now I can finally breath. Shanay-nay and Chantinique are getting to finally know each other now and I am relieved. I thought something was going to happen for a moment. Well, today was a great day. It was crazy too! Mr.Crazman started to tell us that when he screams at us, it's because he gets excited about teaching. Then he said that his family thinks that he's crazy. He kept looking at me and pointing at me like I was his arch enemy or something, a girl in my class named Jasmine was laughing all in my ear when I sat in front of her, my cat jumped out the window again and brought back a girl cat at 6:00pm and my mom kept laughing on the phone with her old friends. It was also a good day because I finally got to rest and I passed the test but, I'm still kind of bumbed about how my cat brought back a girl cat, who appeared to resemble a sheep in wolves clothing. When she sat on my livingroom floor she couldn't get back up. That made me mad (giggles). Anyway, goodnight!

80 DAYS LATER

Dear journal,
I have not heard from my friends in a while. I say "hi!" and they look at me like i have 12 heads or something. This goes to show how friends can treat you and then turn on you. You will never see it coming but that's all a part of being the ................PEACEMAKER!