Hedgehog

old lady

It's being a while...and by a while I mean 12 years.I finally decided to visit my hometown once again ,not only to see my family and for the holidays ,but also because we have a reunion with my old classmates from highschool. Who I hate, but that's not the point, the point is that I should socialize more. I'm working a full time job , 8 hours ,5 days a week...well that is what everyone else knows. The truth is I'm working ...more than that...like 12 hours a day ,6 days a week ,sometimes 7 days a week. I know I'm overworking, but I don't mind ,I'm getting paid anyways. So because all that work I have no time to meet up with my friends, more like to get a boyfriend ... So my friends nagged me to go to the reunion this year and maybe I have the chance to find someone special, or someone I could fuck with...I mean I turn 30 this year , some girls at my age are already married and have kids. For me that's a nightmare, I have no time to take care of myself, I need not husband and definitely NO kids. So thirties are not that bad , sometimes my nape gets shore with all this hours of work , doing an office work is getting less fun with the years passing. I'm getting older and I feel my body getting tired more often. Well my friends told me that thirties are just the beginning of our lifes... you can go party ,drink ,get wasted and more importantly get fucked as much as you want. The problem with me is the only thing that is fucking me up is work.
The trip from my new town to my hometown is kind of long ,so with the company of good 'ol music and the symphony of my cracked up cacophony I'll manage to pass it through, I like driving it releases my stress after work on the way home. But I'm not that used to big road trips and I normally get tired pretty easily after an hour or so. I hope today it is an exception because I need to get there pretty early in the evening some hours before the reunion ,to meet with my parents first and then get ready for it. I just finished work and I have already packed my things on my car. It is kind of a dumb idea to have the trip ,the meeting with my parents and then the reunion and all of these after work in the same day. But i had no time to spare , I couldn't take the day off, the day before the reunion so I had to do all of these in the same day. I would be a wreck in the end of this day , but I hope it will be worth it because I sacrificed a lot of day offs for this vacation. I will stay to my hometown for almost two weeks , stay with my parents , have the reunion with my old highschool classmates and teachers, meet up with my old friends ,visit my old favourite places and most importantly get some rest ...at last . I really need that , I haven't had a good rest in a minute now. So now I finished work and a whole week and a half is waiting for me to relax and treat myself as the queen I am.
I walked outside of the elevator ,in the garage of my work and walked my way to my car . I managed to balance my files on one hand to press the button of the key of my car and hear the familiar sound of it unlocking. I opened the door of my car and slide by the driver's seat , placed carefully my files to the passenger's seat and closed the door . I took a huge breath and smiled . Finally some free time ,which is not that free of a time yet cause I need to hurry up because of the reunion. So my long trip just started and I have great company of my nice music taste. Two hours passed and the trip passes calmly the sun starts setting and the traffic started to bloom as people just finished with their work and some of them already started their nightlife. Crap , I thought to myself I didn't count the traffic, this will make my trip longer and more tiresome. After one and a half more hours of driving and getting stuck into traffic I managed to reach the suburbs of my hometown ,the traffic is starting to get more intense and staying at the same place for more than five minutes, my music started to get into my nerves and stressing me out more than it supposed to relief my stress so I decided to switch off my car radio . That idea was proved stupid, as sitting in silence got me thinking about me getting late and more stressful things . I tried to turn my car into a different road after waiting in traffic line more time for my liking. The moment I turned my car a motorcycle popped off out of nowhere and almost hit it , thank God I have good reflexes even when I am tired and stepped on the break immediately. I saw the motorcycle driver almost lose his balance but he managed to put his foot down the road before it was too late . I saw him turned his head and looked at me , he was wearing a helmet covering his face with a black mate glass . I looked at him with a shocked face as both my hands were pinned on the steering wheel, like my life depended on it , which is true , I saw him shake off his head in frustration and putting his foot up the motorcycle once again ready to drive off again. As he was driving away I saw him lift his left hand , all of his fingers were forming a fist except for one...he was fleaking me off. Apparently I completely forgot about my hometown's citizens' manners, they are infamous in our state. That is why everyone , in the city I live now, who learns I'm from here always take some time to be friendly with me ,eventhough I have to tell myself I am very friendly and polite. But well my hometown has a name and I am not capable enough to change it. I mean I live in the center of a main city and I've seen less of swearing and gestures there in my entire life than the things I've seen in this city.
It was getting late as the city lights were taking their place exactly on time as always and I was still on the road , I was almost at my parents house when I saw the time and I didn't like what I saw , in five minutes the reunion will start and I'm not there. I wasn't ready and neither my luggage was unpacked, that means either I had to call it a day and miss the reunion, which I kind of hoped for , or go there as I am... With the very appealing appearance of me after work and after a four hour drive . Definitely today wasn't my best of my looks days , my hair hated me , I had no time to shower and my clothes were as fancy as a long shirt and leggings, the entire look was finalised with my blocky-ass glasses and a pair of ballet flats on my feet. They say at your thirties you will look at your best , maybe that is indeed my final form. Also do not believe those lies , acne is still a thing. So I had 5 minutes to decide either or not I was going to attend the reunion and my gut wasn't a fun of this added stress on my shoulders. I promised to my friends that I was going to visit the reunion meeting so that is what I was going to do , like it or not.
It didn't took a lot of time to find the place where the meeting was taking place .It was the old arcade with all the fun things a teenager loved to do and I not gonna lie even as an adult still loves to do . We used to meet there all kinds of cliques, the nerds ,the joggers, the meangirls and had their time of their life . Now this old sentimental shop turned into a retro styled coffee shop for troubled youth , I am a troubled youth aren't I? I parked my car into the parking lot after I managed to find a spot between all kinds of different cars . Are my old classmates going to be successful and gonna brag about it the entire evening, of course they are ! That is what they gonna do , that is their point in their life , to finally brag to people you know about your successful life , job ,family and finance. Am I being to winey again ,probably, am I going to stop , nah. I walked past the parking lot and opened the front door of the store , the night had already settled in so the store was lucid with all kinds of lights that matched the aesthetic . A small bell rang on top of my head betraying my entrance, some people inside the store stopped their conversations and turned to look at me , others were so invested in their stories they didn't even notice. I saw a lot familiar faces already, some changed quite a lot some not at all , a girl stood up and walked towards me with a bright smile covering her face. She was one of my old highschool friends, specifically one of my best friends in highschool. I looked at her and rewarded her with one big smile.
" Y/N !! Oh my God , I can't believe you came!!" She said with a bright voice , out of all my old classmates she was probably the most okay one "it's been a while, I haven't seen you into a reunion meeting before, is it your first time ?" She walked close enough so she could give me a nice big warm hug and that is what she did. "Y-Yeah , I live in the big city some years now ,so I didn't have time to stop by , glad to see you again ,how are you doing? " I asked her as we headed to the table she was sitting before. The table was old American style with the table and sofas attached to the wall next to it ,with a huge steal box of tissues and a fake bottle of ketchup and mustard with I believe they have sugar and honey inside them , great design I thought to my self. The sofas were packed of people and most of them I knew , my old friend showed me where to sit and she sat also at her previous seat next to me . She started introducing me the people were there ,which most of them I knew and they were remembering me , then she introduced me to one handsome looking man sitting beside her , he was staring at me the entire time with his big 'ol round brown eyes , a defined nose and beautiful brunette loks resting on his forehead, he looked young , at least younger than me " So Y/N ,that's my friend Huening Kai he is also a graduate of our highschool but he is younger than us ... Hyuka this is my friend...-" she continued to introduce him but he suddenly stopped her with his calm voice " Your friend <<really bad driver>> " he said and then it hit me. He was the dude I almost hit with my car earlier ago , he was him same clothes ,same jacket , same bad attitude. That was embarrassing...I wanted the earth to open up and swallow me inside and never see the face of the earth again...