From what it looks like, Dane has successfully pitted our new neighbor boys against James. Not only is James left out or picked on, I feel weird walking him to school now. The boys and their mom now walk with Dane a his mom to school (which makes them late to school since Dane is late more than half the time). I had started walking with them to school, but now they are leaving later and we don't wait for them. Have I lost a friend too? I liked their mom. I thought things went well when I talked to her about James getting teased. Maybe not. Maybe ALL our cul-de-sac neighbors hate us.
Worse than that is James' new found friend Mikey on the playground. As I said, I had James give him his phone number on Friday. On Monday and Tuesday, Mikey ran away from James and ignored him when James called his name. I sent an email to his teacher to encourage James to try again, but she sent an email back saying "He and James were playing together but then Mikey told his teacher that he did not want to play with James anymore. I do not know why? I asked him and he told me that he just didn't feel like playing with him anymore."
What's going on here? Why does everyone treat him like a leper? Why doesn't my family fit in anywhere? I hardly have any friends myself. Rex has no time for friends and his school seems to want to get rid of him. And whatever is wrong with us has somehow been passed on to James. What's wrong with us???
I used to think living in the middle of nowhere would be awful. I'd hate to be so isolated and removed from reality. But now I think maybe that would be the best thing for us. Maybe it would be best to live on an island.
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