April Showers Bring May Flowers

*Ghost Town Campus*

So there I was, sitting in the passenger seat of a friends car. First of all, I didn't want to be there. It was exam week and I needed to be studying but my "friend" didn't give me that option. He just showed up at my building and insisted we go get lunch at some gross uppity restaurant. Meanwhile, my phone was having convulsions. One call after the other, a couple other friends seemed a little too desperate to get in touch with me. Eight missed calls later I was livid. They even broke into my dorm to find me. This was when that little trigger went off in my head saying "GET OUT NOW." So I did. As soon as I got back from my dorm and quickly finished a couple of essays, I managed to pack up my entire dorm within four hours. By that time, it was 10:00 PM and everyone on campus was either studying or had gone bar hopping. So the city was, for once, a ghost town. I called my sister and in the dead of night and I sprinted to her car with my arms full of clothes, bags, and my cherished white down comforter. And as she drove away, I watched a chapter of my life get smaller and smaller in the rear view mirror until it disappeared around the bend. I sunk down in my seat with such a great feeling of relief. I was no longer wrapped up in the desire to be admired buy a group of people I had nothing in common with. I was ready to start doing the admiring. So my wonderful sister got us pizza and we spent the night playing with her dog on the empty floor of what would be my new bedroom.

     I spent the next semester living with Joni and it went smoothly. I spent most of my time on campus. Just before classes began, I changed my major from Tourism Management to Anthropology so I was in a new crowd which consisted mostly of geeks and dirty hippies. I kept a comfortable distance from them as I learned that letting people get too close allows them to cross too many boundaries. Even still, I was seeked out by old friends almost everyday. I tried hiding in the small corners of campus just for the sake of not running into someone I know. I even changed my look a little to blend in with the crowd of college students rushing to class. By summer, the texts and phone calls came to an all time worse. So I decided to take a break from the city completely. I needed a  new game plan for a better life. So my parents arrived early on a sunny Saturday to take me home. And as we arrived to our little Valley in the hidden corner of Moonville, the sun was half way down. Maybe a Moonville sunset was the most beautiful site I'd seen in a while or maybe I was just overflowing with hope for a better tomorrow.

*Home*