This is an exact true story this time of my first time – unfortunately. All stories will be mostly of one person and other people for other chapters and since these are based on real people their names will be changed. Also all people are exactly 18 years old in high school if you catch my drift. Also sorry if the story seems to lose focus, these are old memories.
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I went to a running camp over the summer one time for altitude training to strengthen myself for the upcoming cross country season. A college in Abilene was hosting the camp and were going to drive us up to Colorado and stay there for a few days and run around and have the college coach teach us some lessons to help us become better runners.
There was just seven of us, the coach and female assistant of his that was a college senior, Alyssa, a guy who was going to attend the college in the fall, Kyle, two girls from a small town out near west Texas, Chole and Addie, the latter being a senior and the other was a sophomore, another senior girl from a moderate sized school nearby the college, Hannah, another girl that we were going to meet at the Denver Airport, Olivia, and finally me an up and coming 18 year old senior from the Texas panhandle.
The coach and all the girls were to meet up with Kyle and I in Amarillo since Kyle lived not too far from me. I was familiar with the coach since I had gone to his altitude training camp the year prior and had some unfortunate accidents like falling down a mountain and nearly dying. He grew fond of me since I didn't talk much and was a promising runner.
At the gas station meet up, Addie and Hannah greeted me as if they were excited to see me or just were very friendly people – I never really know. Hannah was very dark skinned but had more of Indian toned skin and the face of a white girl, she had matching brown eyes and long hair that she always left down, and a slim body of slightly less than average height and her face was probably the most photogenic I've ever seen or simply just made to be in front of a camera. Addie was pale, little bit more weight on her but mostly just muscle since she was a half miler, curly strawberry blonde hair and a face that was never sad. Claire was stick skinny and really adorable and so innocent while the other two were a bit more rebellious, fun, and daring.
Kyle and I sat in the back seat of the Chevy Tahoe, crammed since we were both long legged guys. We drove for a couple of hours to a town where some local alumni to the college were letting us stay the night in their houses before we drive another nine or so hours up to Denver. Kyle, the coach, and I were staying with the richest person in town who had the sweetest one story house and a pool out back that Kyle and I swam and messed around in before we slept on luxurious king sized bed since we had to get up at five the next morning.
That morning we ran late to pick up the girls since I told Kyle that he could shower first but I woke up first and didn't want to waste time. I wouldn't call myself a morning person but after ten minutes or so after waking up at any time and a shower makes me all good to go. Everyone else was dreary and all their eyes were heavy and only sought and thought of going to sleep as soon as they can. Kyle told me that he couldn't stand sitting in the crammed back with me for another nine hours so Hannah volunteered herself to sit in the back with me.
And ten minutes later on the road, everyone was asleep, except me of course since Hannah had fallen asleep on my shoulder after stealing my pillow for extra support.