Nov 12, 2005 15:33
So it started with all of us: Ben, Gio, Jian, Andy, Nick, Patrick, Jacob, Amber, Ali, and myself planning a kickback for Friday night at Andy's house. 80$ worth of alcohol is purchased, and we have our get together, resulting in two people getting sick and puking everywhere, and Andy freaking out about his dad coming home. So Andy then got paranoid and kicked myself and Jacob out to go sleep in Jian's car, while the rest of them slept inside. Well Jacob and I went for a walk instead, around say...1:00 A.M. So we're walking around and all of a sudden we hear choppers and sirens, and they sound like they're coming up into the hills. We proceeded to freak the fuck out and wait until the sirens pass before making any moves. Finally they do and we start walking back to the cars, only to find a securi-car rent-a-cop bitch driving around. We freeze and hope he doesn't see us, he stops, we bolt the fuck away from there. Mind you, we are two minors, somewhat shitfaced still, running around at 1:00 in the morning (past curfew). We finally make it back to Jian's car, and we head over to see what Ali is doing. Jacob wakes her up and we all crowd into her car.
So a few hours pass by, we go back into Andy's house, Ali feels nauseated, and Andy & Ben both wake up and get pissed off. We eventually left our hung over and disgruntled mates for the beach. Yes, the motha fucking beach, at about 5:30 in the motha fucking A.M. Ali drove myself and Jacob through some of the most intense fog I have ever seen in the valley, to finally reach the beach at around 6 o' clock, just to see the sunrise.
Well, it was fucking worth it. It was possibly the most amazing thing I had seen. Just being there, us three: Ali, Jacob, and Gabe. Through head aches, stomach aches, security patrol men, zombie film references, fast food, mindless chatter, bitchy friends, and terrible amounts of booze, we survived it all and the beach never looked so fucking good. It was as if we had found something, a point, a reason, something, I really don't know how or what it was, but it made fucking sense. Three teenagers just searching for something, we had found it, and it made everything in the world just perfect. It was a reason to be.
When we left the beach, we listened to The Beatles and found the valley engulfed in fog. It looked as if we were entering some sort of alien planet, a world covered in clouds, oblivious to everything but itself. We came back, woke people up, helped clean up, and then left for our homes and more importantly our beds.
I'll never forget this night, Jacob and Ali made it something truly unbelievable, it all just added up to that moment of clarity when we reached the beach. It's like how Hunter S. Thompson said it, we we're just another bunch of freaks, in a freak kingdom.