“Okay!” Jasper yelled, “No more of that, roles”
“What kind of roles do we need?” I said,
“Well what we would want is a person to count our supplies right? And a person to guard us and like a leader.” Jasper started to name off a lot of roles, and we started getting tired from all that listening.
“Jas let’s just do a counter and leader” Emma said,
“And co-leader” I added, “never know.”
“Okay, okay” Jasper said, “Anyone especially good at math?” To these words Ellysa raised her hand.
“9th grade math lvl” she wrote down.
“That’s plenty more doing basic adding and subtracting supplies.” I responded,
“Ok, Elly you want to be the counter?” She shrugged and wrote,
“I don’t care” Completely ignoring the fact she was called Elly.
“Nice, but what about Leader and co-leader?” Emma said, “I am not good at decision making so I’m out.”
“In other words you want to be the freeloader?” Jasper joked around,
“I wouldn’t say that now Jas, I’m just pulling my own weight alongside you guys and doing so under one of you.” Emma responded,
“Yeah that makes sense” I said. With Ell as the counter Emm as the subordinate we moved on to me and Jasper, who should be the leader. The argument began.
“Jas you be leader-”
“Kris you be leader-”
“Oh no, not this again” Emm said. To which Ell wrote “What?” and Emm went on to tell Ell me and Jasper’s history of arguing over leadership.
“Kris you have always been a leader and me co-leader why change that now?” -Jasper
“Because Jas, now is different we need someone who can make good decisions quick, I never did that and you did” -Kristen
“What? All of my decisions were based off of yours though?” -Jasper
“So what? They were still the better decisions, that is what we need” -Kristen
“Come on Kristen we need you to be leader, not me or the others could do it” -Jasper
“Literally a lie, you have done it better than me but on the sidelines.” -Kristen
“Kris this is life or death stop pushing away responsibility” -Jasper
“Jasper, listen, I am fully aware of that, If we were in our backyard or the woods by the pond or whatever I’d have stopped this argument and done it. Here we are though, still at it. I’m telling you, if you are the leader we can continue forth for a very long time.” -Kristen
And then silence. Everyone just got hit with the realization that we really could die if we don’t do this seriously.
“And you will be co-leader?” -Jasper
“Yes” -Kristen
“And take this seriously?” -Jasper
“Yes” -Kristen
“And...take care of everyone like a leader..” -Jasper
“Yes, I will. I will continue to give inspiration to your life saving ideas and ideals as well.” -Kristen
“Let’s continue this argument tomorrow” -Jasper
“Sure Jas, whatever you need.” -Kristen
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