Remember When

Catching Up

         Nic

              The guys and I all walked to Dustin's house after school. We threw nuts at each other that had fallen from the trees. Though they'll never admit it, I have the best aim out of all of them. I nailed Julien in the back of the head, Chris dead on the neck, and left a giant bruise on Tyler's leg.

           Dustin knew that I hated when the guys went easy on me just because I'm a girl. But at the same time I wasn't complaining because it just made them easier targets.

           Once we got into Dustin's house I automatically went straight for the walk-in pantry. Gosh that thing was huge. I could live in there. I grabbed Tostito's chips with dip and sat down in between Owen and Damon.

             We flipped through the channels and decided to watch Sports Center just because they were playing clips of last night's game of the Yankee's against the Cardinal's.

               Before I knew it, my eyelids were becoming heavy, it was a long day for me. I tried to stay awake but I ended up falling asleep on Owens shoulder.

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             I woke up and the first thing I saw was not the living room ceiling. It was Dustin's bedroom ceiling. Those shitheads couldn't have just woken me up. They probably ate all of the food there was. I thought.

             After a few moments of sitting there I decided to go downstairs. On the way down the stairs I realized I left my Jeep at the school. "Shit." I muttered to myself.

             When I got to the bottom of the stairs I noticed Dustin was the only other one in his house and he was sitting on the couch listening to none other than Metallica. Typical Dustin.

             Dustin looked up from his Chem. homework. "Hey, hey sleepyhead! I was starting to think you're dead. I'm glad you woke up though" he said.

              "Yeah I was kinda taken by surprise when I woke up in a different spot from where I fell asleep. You guys could've just kept me awake." I responded.

              "Nahh you looked really tired so we decided to let you sleep. Hey, be thankful though, Chase and Julien wanted to draw on you. I wouldn't let them because I knew you'd get them back even worse."

             "Good thinking. You know me too damn well. Speaking of which, I forgot my car was in the school parking lot. Can you walk with me back and I'll drive you home. I don't want to go alone."

              Dustin couldn't help but smile. "What? Not so tough?" he said with that smartass smirk of his.

              God I swear I could beat the shit out of this kid sometimes, he better be glad I don't. I thought to myself. "Dude, its 7:30. I gotta get home or my moms gonna flip shit. Stop trying to play your stupidass games right now."

             With that he got up grabbed his house keys and followed me out the front door.

              While we were walking we talked about our first day and who we had in each of our classes. I was thankful I had him in lunch, math and science , otherwise those classes would be a blow. Well most of our classes weren't that bad.

             As we walked up to my car, the idiot couldn't help but put the biggest smile on his face because he was actually going to ride in the Jeep for the first time in forever, and with no doors on.

            I started up the car. Almost instantly Dust In The Wind by Kansas started blasting through the speakers. We jammed out as I drove him home.

            About 15 minutes later I pulled into my driveway. Overall today hadn't been as bad as I expected it to be. I went upstairs, took my make up off, washed my face, changed into my Marvel superhero pajama pants with a black v-neck T-shirt and jumped into bed.

            I turned on The Sandlot, cuddled into the comforter, put a timer on my T.V. and fell asleep.