Controlling Nature

Rome, here we come!

Amy was sitting on my bed while I was packing my bags. ‘Do you think we’ll meet a cute guy ?’ she asked. ‘Can you get your head out of the clouds and help me decide  what I should take with me to Rome!’ ‘Okay, okay, I’ll help you!’ She walked over to me and I gave her the clothes I had in my hand. ‘Can you put these in my bag please’ I asked. ‘Why do you always wait for the last moment? We have to be in the bus in three hours.’ I looked over at her and said ‘Not helping!’

To make everything worse my mom walked in and gave us her speech about taking care of each other, don’t go with strangers, always be nice blahdieblahdieblah, and that if I felt homesick I always could call my mommy. Barf! ‘Mom, please, I’m busy the bus leaves in three hours and I still have to pack my bags!’ My mom gave me a look and said ‘Yeah, and whose fault is that?’ I just rolled my eyes at her and said ‘Bye mom!’ She walked over to me gave me a hug and a kiss and said ‘I’ll miss you’ ‘I’ll miss you too.’ I turned around and saw that Amy was almost done packing my bags, in the two minutes I was talking with my mother.

 ‘HOLY FACKING DUCKSHIT, Amy, it’s not human that you can pack my bags so fast!’ ‘Who ever said I was human? Now come on, we have a bus to catch and we also need to go to my house to get my things.’ We walked downstairs where my parents were waiting for me with a present.

 They gave me the present and said ‘because this is the first time you go so far without us we thought we’d give you a little something.’ I opened the present and saw a brand new camera. ‘O my god mom, dad I love it! Thank you so much, I’ll see you in a week.’ I gave my parents a last hug and then Amy and I went to Amy’s house. She picked up her stuff said goodbye to her parents and then we went to school where the bus was waiting. We took a seat in the back of the bus and started chatting about how awesome Rome was going to be. Lucky for me Damien, the cutest guy from the whole school was also going to Rome, and he and his friend (who was madly in love with Amy by the way) sat a few seats in front of us so I could drool all the way to the airport.

 When we got our boarding passes I saw that I sat in the middle row next to Amy and Damien, and next to Damien sat his best friend Josh. O my god, I sat next to Damien! In my head the sentence, keep calm and don’t do anything stupid! kept repeating. Yeah, like I’m capable of acting normal when my crush is sitting right next to me. I should become a comedian. The first part of the flight went well, I just talked to Amy and pretended like I wasn’t sitting next to an insanely hot guy. Not that it worked but at least I didn’t completely embarrass myself. Not yet at least. Of course I couldn’t go through the entire flight without making a complete fool of myself. So when the stewardess came by with our drinks instead of just taking my coke like a normal person would have done I spilled my whole drink over Damien.

‘O my god, I am so sorry! I didn’t mean to I.. I..’ Oh great, I spilled my drink over my crush and I couldn’t even apologize normally, that’s just fabulous! Damien didn’t say anything to me he just got up as fast as possible and went to the restroom. So much for my fantasy of spending a romantic weekend with my crush in Rome. And while all this was happening Amy just sat next to me laughing her ass off. Some best friend huh? I should’ve spilled my drink over her. The rest of the flight I was too embarrassed to even look at Damien. After a while I fell asleep.

When I woke up we were already almost there. Everybody was trying to get a glimpse of Rome. Damn it I wish I had window seat right now. Oh well, I was going to get to see enough of Rome in the next week. The captain announced that we were about to land and that we should put on our seatbelts. And then I realized I was about to land in frickin Rome with my best friend in the whole wide world. This week was going to be awesome!