by jared olson
[the following events were stored in a faulty memory storage unit for roughly two months. please forgive any inaccuracies]
Once upon a time there was a boy. That's me. A brand new college student, fresh off the high school assembly line. It was a dark, chilly Saturday night in Alpine, Utah, and I had the brilliant idea to leave for college at about 9:00 at night. I was eager to pursue my dreams, and tackle my scholarly pursuits you see. I tried to sneak out of the house to make it as painless for me as possible. I love my family. More and more the longer i'm away from them. But my mom was hugging me and saying goodbye in the entryway so of course my sister heard. She yelled down the stairs, "Are you leaving!? Now?! Without saying goodbye?!" And the rest of the house heard her, so of course they all rushed up to send me off. They care about me after all. We said our goodbyes, and I tried to get out of my driveway before I started tearing up. I made it out alive, and managed to drive all the way to my new home without getting lost. I crawled into bed, and awaited the dawn.
When the morning came, I was out of bed, surprisingly. I didn't know why I was actually awake at a reasonable hour on a Sunday morning, but there I was. So, I thought to myself, "Self, let's go to church!" "That's a great idea self!" So I went to church. It was a good idea. And probably not entirely my own. The lessons were good, as lessons in church usually are. And the speakers spoke words, like they usually do. It was a typical church meeting. The interesting part happened after church, in the Heritage Center.
I went into the food area of the HC, and tip-toed around, stalking my prey. I saw cereal and pizza and fruit... nothing too interesting. But then out of the corner of my eye, I saw it. The most beautiful thing I had ever laid eyes on... A chocolate donut with chocolate frosting and chocolate sprinkles. In other words, heaven in a circular pastry. We walked to a seat together, and had a grand old time. I took a bite of him, he wreaked havoc on my digestive system, the usual things friends do. It was lunch at first sight. But little did I know that in a few moments, a new group of friends would come to rival the companionship that this round slice of heaven and I had shared.
"HEEEYYYYY!!"
I looked up from the phone I had been pretending to text on, so as to not look like my only friend was a donut. To my bewilderment, there were five or six gorgeous girls standing in front of me, all smiling down at me.
"Hi?" I asked.
"We saw you at church today!!!" said a curly haired girl loudly, "Why don't you come sit with us!?"
"Yeah! Come sit with us!!" the rest of the posse chimed in.
I hesitated. I didn't want to make an idiot out of myself in front of these girls. But what choice did I have? I couldn't just say, "No thank you. My friend Donut and I are sharing a moment." So I said, "Sure!"
I sat down at their table and we all introduced ourselves. The loud curly haired girl was Laura. The two quiet ones were Nancy and Karen. The indie ones were Jessica, Erin, and Lexi. And thus began a beautiful friendship.
To be continued... but not written down... Probably... maybe... we'll see.
