Grade 4, mid November

Mumbo's POV
It snowed for the first time in 2 weeks, finally we don't need to run around on nothing but frozen snow. Ren, his friend Cub, and I were planning on making forts and I wanted my fort to be next to theirs so you would be neighbors but every time I would start making my fort they would run off, this continued for 10 minutes before I finally gave up. I made a pathetic fort and used the extra snow to make a chair. It... hurt? I don't know why but seeing them having fun made me laugh to cry, "I'm so alone" I mumbled. Tears started to form and I was wearing my unicorn hat and nobody could see them. After a few days of this some of the recess supervisors started to ask if I was ok and I would always reply that I'm fine when I'm not really fine but I can't get into it because they would never understand. I tried to interact with them but they would always shoo me away. There fort got really big while mine was the most pathetic fort out of everyone's. I didn't know what a fake smile was at the time but that was exactly what I was doing for 2 MONTHS STRAIGHT! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT CAN DO TO A KID! I was not my happy, bubbly self anymore.