Did I ever tell you people about Elf Kid?
Well, here it goes anyway:

One day (way back in Sept. I think), during lunch, I'm looking past the staircase. I notice this kid-freshman-- with dyed black hair that I believe went to his eyebrows and covered half his ear (or something). He was wearing a white/black/brown striped beanie hat and a white t-shirt and skinny white jeans.
Anyway, I point him out to the rest of the group "Dude, that kid looks like an elf!"
And he's been called Elf Kid ever since.

We have made so many jokes and laughed over/at him so much that I feel bad sometimes (kinda like making fun of Frank). In a way, it feels like we're stalking him. We think his name's Jeremy... psh... As if we actually care.
Michelle said she saw Elf Kid without his hat once. It was an epidemic.
One day... one terrible, dreadful, awful day, we realized Elf Kid hadn't been absent the last few days. His elf hat had disappeared and he got his hair cut. A few days earlier, Caitlin drew a pic of Elf Kid and his elfiness, and even drew a Navi for him. To this day it can be seen on Michelle's binder. It's kind of a shame because he doesn't really look like that anymore...
Anyway, his hair is obviously dyed and he seemed to have missed a few spots (maybe on purpose)... or something. It looks hilarious... er, scratch that. It looks bad. Just bad.

It was NOT Elf Kid. Michelle said that Santa had recruited him as an elf (because Christmas was coming up... this was after Thanksgiving) and replaced him with a bad human copy of Elf Kid (or something like that). After this, he wore those jackets with fur hoods, baseball caps worn properly and backwards, and my favorite, a horrid yellow plaid shirt.

Ha. I remember one day at lunch, Michelle suddenly says "Elf Kid has yellow balls!" to which I cracked up laughing. Sure enough, he had a necklace made of huge yellow balls, which I'm sure they were cracking jokes over every 5 seconds. Throughout the day, I saw this necklace passed on to many people.

This other day, Caitlin and I were getting out of Japanese class. A class in the library was getting out, too. Just as we walk out, Elf Kid walks out (just on the other side of the tiny hallway) and I keep hitting Caitlin, trying to hold in my laughter. She finally looks behind us and we both crack up. Elf Kid was wearing a wrestling sweater and black beanie with a ball of air at the top, signifying it wasn't on all the way (get what I mean?)


We always wonder if he suspects anything.... Like whenever we pass him in the hall we start laughing. And like how we keep looking at his table at lunch.

Well, today, I mistakenly headed to 3rd period (it was a half day... and no one reminded me). Halfway there I met Caitlin and Morgan who also mistakenly headed to 3rd and reminded me it was 4th period. So we walked together in the same direction. Then, I saw something.

Was I imagining it?

No.

I am absolutely ecstatic.
I'm pointing at the person walking perpendicular to us. "Dude (Or 'Caitlin', idk... yes, I so said that)!! Elf Kid has his hat back!" I say quieter than usual. Elf Kid then turns to see us... me still pointing at him, although he looked just for a second. I freaked a bit. Caitlin hadn't even seen it, or heard me, so, still somewhat enthusiastic, I tell her again.
At lunch, I told the others about my pointing and him seeing, and they laughed their asses off. Probably my "oh, shit" commentary dealio.