Okay. So lets get this started. We're going to play a bit of copy cat here, for the sake of ease.

Currently a brand new chapter has begun in this grand novel that I have so titled "Life". It opens up pretty much with the Japan trip. Even though at the time I hesitated to say something new had begun, as I have now spent a week in school, it's a pretty solid conclusion.

So things started a little before the actual trip. I got a letter that I thought was filled with total BS. There was a very official looking site, but seeing as I had always wanted to go to Japan, I didn't exactly trust it when someone just hands me an opportunity to me on a silver platter. Fast forwarding closer to the present, it turned out to be real, and I decided to join.

Which is where this slippery slope finally starts to catch me.

I came in and pretty much stuck to the person that I knew. Mariah. Who is one of those poisonous people that you really don't ever want to know. I knew Tyler, but only name and face, I had never really talked to him before, and he knew other people, so I didn't really group up with him. I noticed the people that he was hanging out with though. In my head I decided that I had to find -some- way to drop Mariah and fit in with Tyler. Because I'd be damned if I was going to end up with this girl who was bitching through the entire meetings on the trip I had always dreamed of.

More fast forwarding.

Japan was amazing, and came with a dimension that I didn't quite expect. It was somewhat understandable to a degree though. I understood that people would try to hook up. We're teenagers after all. But I thought that being the guy, if I initiated nothing, nothing would happen.

Lies really.

I still ended up meeting someone.

You think I'd learn to stop making promises to myself. They're the ones I can never seem to keep. Except one so far.

So now this brings the people reading to the event of a fortnight ago.

Yes. I used fortnight. Demitri Martin would be proud.

The planets aligned in just the right way to present us with this opportunity. Marleena and I had decided that this would be the perfect weekend for an Adventure. Or multiple ones. The PLAN was that we would meet up and go for a walk in the night, then stay up to see the sunrise while watching a movie or two.

The REALITY was not exactly the same. No surprise there really.

Then came the beginning of the main part of the weekend, beginning with a minor direction hiccup. As it turns out, the location of the meetup does not actually appear in the town that it should (at least if you're going by normal logic and common sense) so Marleena ended up getting slightly lost because of this stupid geographical anomaly. However, it was solved, and she still ended up beating me to the parking lot.


So I'll also be skipping a lot of useless in transit parts. So if it seems we do things very quickly, it's not because we have the ability to teleport, it's because I have the ability to not quite tell all the little details of a story.

When everything was settled, we started off on our little walk, plans unchanged despite the fact that it had rained torrentialy not too long before that. It was really nice. I decided, in a feeble attempt to combat the mosquitoes that have this desire to eat me alive, to wear my sweater. However, I realized that they just bite your neck and fingers anyway.

 And I didn't realize the fingerprint part of your fingers could get mosquito bites.

 We ended up just having a pleasant, low key talk in the dark, which I think it something that should happen more often. And it also seems that the dark has this pleasing ability to bring out topics of conversation that aren't always mentioned during the day time. I don't mean that we're a part of a some cult thing, and hush hush speakings go on during this time, but things just seem to strike deeper at night. Then there's also the fact that the more I learn, the more I have the desire to learn. Or at least get more enthusiastic. Like attracts Like indeed. I still remember. It seems you have too

 Then, seeing as we were in a park, there was swinging to be done, and that's always worth mentioning.

There we arrived back at the house, where we basically ended up staying for the rest of the night into Sunday morning. This is where plans started to fall around our ears. Not like either of us complained. There just wasn't any structure.

 We read a bit from the book that we were going to read from, which was pretty cool. And then we started the Fox and the Hound, but I already started to drift away. And I started to see the Great Wall of China with all sorts of cracks in it. There was a guy sitting next to it that had the job to fix it, but he said there was no point in trying. It was going to come down anyway at some point. So I just sighed and watched the cracks keep coming. And then I was struck by lightning and incapacitated for a few hours.

At a certain point though, we started to get really tired and decided that maybe a nap would be nice, while it was still dark, so that we didn't end up falling asleep on accident and sleep through the sun. So a successful nap was taken, which actually kind of surprised me. But then there was the realization that the whole romantic, spectacular sunrise thing that we wanted to see was hindered by trees. Which suck. So next sunrise will have to be the beach. Because that'll be much much much easier. Or at least watching it will be. Finding a way to spend an entire night on a beach might be a little more tricky.

Saturday~

So mornings are always kinda fun and strange after you wake, especially if you're with the same people that you spent the night with. Because there's no real break in the way things flow, but you just spent this long period of time asleep, so everyone's drifting around all ghost-like, trying to find this normal pattern, while at the same time trying to stick with the abnormality that had been 12 hours prior.

But we hunted down breakfast and showered without any speed bumps. There was also the period of time where we of course were on Facebook. It's always kind of funny thinking about it. But we had to get moving, and speed things up, because there were plans that we were trying to keep.

It wasn't too terribly difficult to find the place. And it was almost creepily empty. A wonderland of sorts. Or Space.

Hiking is always fun too, even though this was pretty straightforward. Go up the path and reach the tower. I had done this same thing a handful of times, but it really seems that company will change every experience. It seemed newer going up with Marleena. It wasn't that I didn't recognize things, but it was like the awe seemed more fresh to experience through her. It was kind of neat really.

And of course, whenever I get to that cliff side, I'm hit by the sheer magnificence of height.

The path then continues up to the main tower, which is actually a lot taller than I remember. Granted, the last time I actually went up into the tower was like 6/7th grade. But as we climbed the steps, the monotony got to me. They just didn't seem to end. And it was a swimming day. The kind of day that if you move through the air, you're just instantly covered in moisture. The top of the tower was cool though. Not nearly as cool as the cliff, but still cool in its own right.

'Nother conversation. I find it interesting that even though there may be long stretches of silence online, or even on the phone, there tend not to be too many when we're actually together. All sorts of different topics come up, and there doesn't really seem to be any taboo area, so we're free to talk about whatever drifts into our minds.

The walk down was reasonably and understandably easier than the walk up. Although there was some shattering of the dreamlike state that the seclusion had created. There were some obnoxious guys that totally shattered everything with their voices. Sharp and rough.

Anyway. Things began to wind down at this point. We went for lunch at a sandwich place, and just kind of relaxed. Well, me not sooo much, I was kind of worried about how close I would be cutting things, and how even when I DID get to my cousin's party, the interest of me being there would last for about 30 seconds.

Food took waaay too long to come. But they gave us a free cookie. And of course, free cookies makes everything better. It's just natural law. And lunch was good as well, which is to be expected of this restaurant.

But then we went our separate ways. Ending the Adventure period.

My cousin's house was as I expected. He was turning 13, and his voice had gotten deeper from the last time I had heard him, which always surprises me. But I walk in and get the handshakes and kisses and hellos. Also there were a few of "How was China?!" Replied to by "It was Japan, and it was fantastic." at which point they were satisfied and went back to talking to their conversational partner.

I just kind of hung out really.

And then after some discussion I ended up going back over to Marleena's house.

Now this is what surprised me. I was allowed to stay the night. Now. I realize that I've been told I have a comforting and likable presence. This is something that I've been told by Howley, and then people he brings in to talk with me, but to have Marleena's Mom trust me enough to stay the night....Was shocking.

Anyway. I flew on over there and we went up to go see District 9. Wes was very correct in saying that it was a great movie. Because it was. A little odd, but the way the movie was made was different and very well done. Yes, you had to suspend some disbelief beyond the fact that there was a couple million Aliens in South Africa, but it was still very cool. There were also some other movies that looked good. A new Tim Burton movie in particular.

Back in her house I learned how to make the little friendship bracelets. Or re-learned really, because Kacie had taught me in camp, buuut I forgot go me. Anyway. I got really tired. And when I say really tired, I mean that I was so tired I was losing my fine motor skills. So we passed out.

The next morning was much like the morning I went over there to pick her up for Six Flags, except there was no Ty or Lizzie. It was pretty chill. The food was good, and it was interesting to be in a different morning atmosphere.

Then there was me losing about two years off my life. Marleena's Mom told me to look into this urn that they had. A very large one. Saying that it had their Grandmother's ashes. And she said it in kind of an excited tone, which surprised me a little, because who's ever pumped to show people someone else's ashes? Anyway. I look into this thing, and they all scream. Scared the crap out of me. I think I might have jumped a little too. It was terrible.

I had to go let out the dogs though. So I left, and went back to the house, which was dreadfully boring really. I just hung out for a few hours. I ripped some of their CDs, but other than that, nothing productive really happened. I read a little too.

Day was kind of boring. I mowed the lawn. Ate dinner. Had a text misunderstanding because my stupid reception in my stupid town is stupid. But I had to run from my house to pick up my cell phone charger, because I forgot it at Marleena's house.

Maybe Purposefully? ;D

actually no. I can't pretend I have that much insight that early in the morning.

We hung out in a parking lot for a bit before she had to continue the journey to her Dad's house, and put a nice ending on a fantastic weekend. A weekend that needs to happen again. Not in the exact same way, but the same premise

Out~

Haha, your reaction to staying the night is great.

The hiking sounded like fun too

And it's more fun when you're tired to the point where you lose your ability to speak understandably.