Dead Year (completely devoted to not doing shit)
For the record at the moment: as I am typing this, the finest guy that I have ever seen has just walked into the computer lab! He's in blue's too and got him some 1LT bars on his shoulders! He's sitting across from me! NOOOO!! Dammit!!!!! He's got a ring on his finger! I think I am going to cry!
Anyway (sniff).... on with the story. The summer after high school wasn't too exciting. Zach and I dated a little off and on for about a month, but it finally ended when he met another girl. Well by that time I was dating Dallas, my old freshman hottie. Dallas had a girlfriend at the time, but no one liked her and really wanted Dallas and I to hook up. I think even his mom did. However, I still wasn't ready to move on and Dallas wasn't willing to break up with his girlfriend so we decided to chill and become friends.
I quit my job at Arby's. It totally sucked and they tried to screw me over! The boss kept getting on me because I wasn't cleaning the slicer correctly, but I was never trained for it. I even asked them to teach me how! Well one night I asked Zach to come by afterwork becuase I needed to discuss something with him. As I was closing down the food station and cleaning the slicer, I heard something scrap against my hand. I looked at the slicer and didn't see anything on it so I thought everything was fine. Ha.... little did I know that there was a cesspool of blood on the floor because I almost cut half my damn finger off! I acted calm and wrapped my finger to stop the bleeding. Nina, Jasmin, and Courtney showed up to take me to the hospital. I was cool until Zach came in... I broke down crying when I saw him. We all rode to the hospital and I was admitted to the emergency room. My blood pressure was taken and the doctor gave me some medicine because my blood pressure was skyrocketing from all the anxiety. Zach went back into the ER with me and held my hand while they prepped all the needles and gauze. The technician came in to give me a needle, but the asshole stuck it in my arm (Note: Fine ass Air Force Lt just left... damn) and left it hanging there! It was like wobbling in my arm and Zach had this disgusted look on his face! After my shot, the doctor stitched me up, gave me a finger splint, and all was gravy once again. Zach and I had our talk later on that night and afterwards I went home. A week later I quit Arby's.
Since I was unemployed, I was bouncing around from temp job to temp job. I got a job selling European leather purses at Sam's Club. I found out that Susan worked their too! We started talking again and hanging out. One of the guys there, named Rick, had his own pad and had parties like everynight! We also went to the midnight bowls too. At one of the midnight bowls, Susan and I ran into Ryan Voltes... he was one of our high school grad buddies. Ryan invited us over to his new apartment, but we declined... however we shouldn't have! A few days went by and Susan was hanging out over at my house. We were complaining about men when all of a sudden I remembered Jarred. I told Susan to lets call him and that I would hook her up with him. So we looked in the phone book at got the number. A guy named Jason answered the phone and invited us over. To our surprise we knew Jason from high school! We just didn't get his name over the phone! Also, whats even cooler is that this was Ryan's apartment too along with Will Speidel and Jarred Lloyd! OMG.. too much testosterone for one girlie! Man we had some much fun catching up on old times! However, Jarred was dating a girl at the time being so Susan didn't get the chance to mack like she wanted.
We still went to Rick's party almost everynight. This is where I got wasted for the first time... it was pretty scary! I passed out after like three shots and woke up with some guy trying to kiss me! Later on I found out he had only four fingers on one hand! Total nastiness! Eww eww! But that same night Susan hooked up with some guy named Garrett... he was throwing up in the toilet when she met him, lol! Garrett and the four finger guy happened to be Air Force dorm roomies on Eglin. I started going to the party less and less because I was trying to avoid the four finger guy... but then one day Susan told me not to worry about because she met a girl there that was a big brawler and wouldn't let four finger's touch me again. So I went to this party and Susan introduced me to the girl and it happened to be Angela Chessher! I went to school with her in 5th grade with Nina! It was so weird seeing her after all these years!
Susan started dating Garrett seriously and eventually married him, so I started seeing less and less of her again. We even stopped going to Rick's parties. After that summer I really didn't do much and my stepmother kinda got on me to move on with my life and told me to enlist. So I went to MEP's, got an assignment, but bailed on my recruiter's sorry ass because the bitch told me that she wasn't sending the van for me until after I swore in. Screw that shit! Later on Shannon and Brandon were getting married. I went to the wedding and met Zach's new girlfriend for the first time. Ted was also there and I thought he was really cute. Since I didn't have a date and was the only single person there, I felt really left out. So I hung out with Ted, because he's been single since I have known him. Anyway, I drank a screwdriver at the wedding and got pretty toasted from just that one drink. Ted was nice enough to drive me home. Later that week I emailed him and thanked him so much for driving me home and we ended up chatting online and dating.
Sometime during the winter, a gold bar recruiter called me up. He told me that I still had a chance to go to college despite what the enlisted recruiter bitch said to me. I swear she looks like the evil versian of Celine Dion! Anyway, I took my ACT, applied for the ROTC scholarship, and applied to the University of West Florida. I got an interview for the scholarship and Ted insisted on renting a car because he didn't want to waste mileage on his car. So I got a reservation for a car rental. Later on Ted told me to cancel the rental because he got a better deal at another place. So we were all set to go and we went to go pick up the car. Once we got there, the desk lady told Ted that he couldn't get a car because he was 25! I was so pissed that he failed to look up the regulations! Then he spent the next hour cussing out a service represenative on the phone for no reason at all! So we ended up going back to the place where I rented a car and luckily got one. All in all the whole fiasco made me 2 hours late for my ROTC interview. When I got there, I tried to apologize to the Captain for the tardiness. He said it was ok and started the interview. Half way through the interview, Ted walked in on it to see if I was done yet! I was so pissed... I knew right then and there that my chances to get a scholarship were destoyed!
I got accepted to the University ofcourse, but I swear dogs could get a better GPA than some of the students that go here. I moved in with Ted during the Spring Semester into the campus apartments. He had three other roomates who were his fellow TKE bothers. I cooked and cleaned for the guys in the apartment... I didn't mind because I enjoyed doing it. I also went on food runs for them whenever they needed me to. I went to see my mother for Spring Break... but I stayed there for almost 3 weeks. Ted didn't even call me or send me one letter! I brought back this really awesome white ball gown that my mom bought for me. I wore it to Ted's Chartering Ceremony for his fraternity. The next day I helped Ted pack for him trip back to Destin because the semester was over with. After we dropped all his stuff back at his place, I drove home. I didn't even get to sit down when the phone rang... and it was Ted. The little asshole called me to break up with me! He wanted to use the summer as a chance to meet other girls! Totally brutal! Especially after I helped drive his crap all the way back home! I should have driven back and given him a royal kick in the ass! |
