My first swear word

Characters: John, Calvin, Ginny, Me
Setting: Fleming Public School baseball diamond/field, c. 1996 Four children play with a tennis ball.

The bell is rings and secretly my stomach begins to turn because I hate being late - but naturally I am too too cool to care about those things, so I continue to play. It's kind of exhilarating. The ball is accidentally thrown over the fence in to "Out of Bounds" territory. It slides down a steep and weedy hill.

At this point I really don't want to lose the tennis ball (what will we play at afternoon recess?) but I kind of just want to go inside. I've already rebelled for today and it is pretty damp outside.

John & Calvin discuss and decide that Calvin will go past the fence OUT OF BOUNDS to get the tennis ball. Internally, I flip out. Externally, I turn my earmuffs backwards to look cool.

We watch Calvin get the ball from behind the chain link fence.

John: "Shit."

Initially, I'm shocked to hear a swear word from a peer. Until this point we've only said "flip" and "frig" if we're seriously pissed. Since I am obviously a hot shit bad ass who wears backwards ear muffs and is late for class after lunch, I assume my new personality is cool enough to swear too:

Me: "Shit, guy."

That's how it happened!