"I'll be right over", I said over the phone to Yosh.
He was my childhood friend, and he had just gotten some beer and rented Trailer Park Boys so I went over to watch it. With me, came my friends Drayden and Alex. Though Yosh lived only about ten houses down, Alex insisted on driving there.
"Hurry the fuck up" I yelled, "I don't want that jackass drinking it all."
After lots of swearing, yelling, and various lewd gestures, we got there. Yosh, his friends Cliff, Niko, and Matt were there. There was also some girl I didn't recognize. She was cute, but I thought nothing more of it at the time. We drank, some of the others smoked a bowl, and then we put in the trailer park boys and started watching.
I ended up siting right next to the girl, who I found out was named Jesse, on vacation from a Catholic boarding school for May long weekend. (Victoria day in Canada) For some reason I felt good that she was sitting there, though I didn't really notice at the time. During the movie, everyone was talking and I got to know her a little better. We kept talking as people began to leave, or pass out, in various order. As I talked with her, I began to realize that not only was she cute, but she had a fucking perfect personality for me. At one point I stopped paying attention to the movie, just so that I could watch her. I looked away when she looked at me. She had beautiful eyes. Another 20 minutes or so went by, and I was almost asleep, when she put her head on my shoulder and closed her eyes.. I was so fucking surprised I almost pulled away, but I didn't. I ran my hand through her hair and then put my arm around her. I fell asleep.
When I woke up, it was like this. Yosh was asleep. Alex and Drayden had gone home. Niko had gone off with Cliff somewhere, and Matt was passed out after like five Keiths and a lot of dope. It was just Jess, me, and an unconcious Matt. "Do you have $2 for the bus?" Jesse asked and awakened me from my revelry.
"No".
She swore,"Fuck!"
I chuckled," "But I could give you a ride, I offered."
"Really, tha'd be perfect," she said.
So I drove her to some obscure house on the other side of town. "This is it," she said.
I stopped and waited.
She got out of the car, "Call me, k." and shut the door.
She was totally my kind of girl, and she obviously liked me as well. There were some problems though. One, I only had the weekend until she had to go back. Fuck. She was going to be in a different province. Fuck. She had no phone number at the school. Fuck. And no email. Fuck! I had one goddamn day. Son of a bitch.
I picked her up the next day so that I could make her last day as fun as possible before returning to boarding hell. After an awkward conversation with her mother, whom I gave every number possible to appease, we were on our way. Jesse, Drayden, Alex, and myself. We went to have a pizza at our local pizza place, and then off to the bowling alley. Even though I bowled the worst gave of my life, (Too many distractions) we headed to Tim Hortons for donuts. Then we ordered a pizza and went back to my house. We ate on the upstairs patio. Drayden and Alex left shortly after that, which left me alone with Jesse and my overly hopeful cat. Everything was perfect, almost too perfect. Fuck, her fucking mom called. She had to go home and pack. Fuck.
I took the longest way I knew back to her house. It took 3 minutes. Serves me right for picking to live in a small city. We pulled up at her house and I turned off the car. I think she could sense how I felt, cause she said, "I'll be back in 2 months." Then with an expectant smile, she said, "Another 2 months in room 317, with no roommates for company."
Then, she kissed me. It was so unexpected, I didn't respond at all. She looked a little hurt when she pulled away, and I realized what I had done. She turned and started to leave. Shit. I couldn't lose her cuz of that. "Wait." I said desperately. I got out of the car, walked over to her, and, using everything I had ever learned, gave her the best kiss I could possibly do. We stood there for what felt like forever, hugging each other. Then I left.
One unbearable week later, I decided something. I couldn't wait another seven of them. I was going on a road trip, and I bet you can figure out where. I called over Drayden and Alex, but they refused to blow off school for a fucking road trip. So I was going alone. Oh well. 2 hours later, I jumped in the car with $100 worth of snack food, and was on my way.
I didn't know how long I had been driving, but after a funny story involving several chickens and a pissed off farmer, (for another time) I arrived in Saskatoon. I read all the signs until one pointed me in the right direction. 17km out of the city, my car broke down. Fuck. It's one in the morning, there is not one car on the road, and I had run out of food. So I started to walk. I walked endlessly, step after step until, holy shit, a car. Please, I wished inwardly. The car slowed and stopped right in front of me.
"Thank you so much," I said as I got into the car.