Jennifer and I had a nice drive over here to East Lansing. Jennifer complained to me about her job. I don't mind because I know everyone needs a little space to complain about their job. Sometimes, even if you love your job, you need some room to say what you don't like. You need to feel listened to. I love listening to Jennifer.
Finding Nate and Megan's place was not tough. I was afraid it might be, but it was this really nice section of apartments. Jennifer was kind enough to take my bags up one set of stairs and then a second set, since we went up the wrong one.
And then we found their apartment. The door opened, and there Nate was. He looked exactly the same. I almost felt like the Grinch, like my heart was expanding three sizes in my chest. I felt I was going to burst. We hugged, we talked. I said hi to the other two roommates, Valerian and Dorian. We chatted a little. (Megan was at work and would return soon.)
We sat around and talked. I called and texted various people, telling them I was in town. Now that I was forced to consider it, there were a ton of people here this summer who I wanted to see.
Justin called asking me for ice cream. Sure, I thought. I'd love ice cream. Sadly, Justin's work schedule was a little screwed up, so I would have to wait for his call. But I was already happy to see even some people.
I laid down for a little in Nate's bed while he worked on his homework (he's taking an online class.) We had earlier teased people who weren't doing so well with what were pretty easy questions.
I had another bout of not sleeping last night (I think from so much of the excitement surrounding this trip) that I was really tired. I felt terrible. Even though I don't think I slept, just giving my body a little downtime was good.
Dorian offered me some cheesecake, which I had. It occurred to me that maybe I would spend this entire trip eating junk food. This is a vacation, so I'm okay with that.
Megan came home, and it was so good to hug and see her. She changed into this really cute outfit and we sat around and talked and took care of some business. It felt like no time had passed at all, like I just graduated from school yesterday, and the next day I was seeing my friends.
We decided to go out for dinner, since Nate and I got invited to a dinner party tomorrow and Nate is going to be working Saturday night.
Megan, Nate, Dorian, Valerian and I piled into Dorian's car. I texted Dan to tell him that he was welcome to join us.
Driving through the town was weird. I have all these memories here, but I've already been able to put so many of them in the past. Feels strange to deal with them now.
We went past my old church. I had accidentally left one of my favorite blue hoodies there right before graduation. We went in to try to find it. No such luck.
The church was eerily quiet. No one appeared to be around. All I could think of is how people at home are afraid to leave a church like that because people come in and vandalize so often.
We walked over to the restaurant and ordered our food. The guy at the counter did that thing were he couples people off. He assumed that Nate and I were a couple, which was awkward. Nate had already walked away when he mentioned that we were a couple.
I laughed. "We're not," I said.
"I don't believe you," he said.
People in this town are both crazy and fascinating.
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