My 20th Birthday Celebration
My birthday is on February 14th, but I didn't celebrate it then. Justin and I have a friend named Hunter who has a birthday three days later than mine, so we decided to celebrate it on a day that Hunter and I both had free in order to celebrate our birthdays at the same time. That day was the 15th. Hunter was going to turn 16, and I was 20 yrs old and a day.
I woke that day with a nice phone message from Joseph yelling that they were going to be at our apartment within minutes and that my ass had better be up by then. Then about a second after that message ended there was a knock at the door. I thought "I guess they lied and are already here." But it wasn't Jon and Joseph, instead it was someone I wasn't expecting to see that day at all. It was Chani. If you don't know who the hell that is, she's a lesbian friend of ours we met through Jon and Joseph. She presented a birthday card and candy to me. It was dark chocolate, which I loathe so I nicely told her how much I hated it and said she and Jon could have it all since they love dark chocolate. Jon and Joseph arrived about 5 minutes after Chani did. We had time to kill since Justin wasn't home from school yet. It was around 1 p.m. and he didn't get home until about 2 p.m. so we just sort of sat in the living room and talked and watched stupid, weird videos on the internet that Joseph had found. Joseph loves torturing us with weird videos on the internet. I wish he'd find a new hobby. Jon and Joseph said I'd get my birthday present later because they didn't have all of it yet. I just shrugged it off. It was code for "we haven't bought your presents yet because we like to wait until the last minute."
At about 1:45 p.m., I started getting ready because I had smeared eyeliner all over my face from the day before, and my work clothes on. For the day, I wore a long sleeve fishnet, with a "Bleach" anime t-shirt on over it, and my traditional black and purple Hot Topic Tripp pants. While I was getting ready Justin came home and started bitching at me to hurry up like always. You know, for me to look half way decent, it takes a lot of time, so you all can shut the fuck up. Chani said that she had other things to do and that she was going to leave. I hugged her good bye, and then we all headed out. Chani really meant "I'm too shy to hang out with people I don't know very well so I'm going to leave." She doesn't know our other friends at all so yeah. We were going to pick up Bruce and Hunter at their high school in Roan Mountain which was about 45 minutes away, and we were late leaving.
We found Bruce and Hunter at Cody's house. Cody is a friend of theirs that lives directly across the street from their school so it wasn't out of the way at all. To our surprise Jamie was there with them and was going to join in on our celebration. This is rare because Jamie's parents are super paranoid and don't like her to hang out with a lot of guys but because I was going to be there they let loose of her leash a little. Justin and I arrived there before Joseph and Jon arrived in their car. So we stood around and talked a bit waiting for them. I gave Hunter his amusing birthday card and my homemade post card of Kon from "Bleach." Justin had bought him a real post card last year so we thought it would be funny. Jon and Joseph finally arrived about 10 minutes after we did, and we had Cody take a picture of all of us. If I can, I'll have those pictures put on a downloadable CD for the computer, that way I can put them on here and myspace later. Cody couldn't go with us because he had to work. Plus, he's more of just Bruce and Hunter's friend, the rest of us didn't really know him. Bruce went with Jon and Joseph in their car, while Hunter and Jamie went in our car.
We met at a place called Pizza Inn in two towns over from Roan Mountain. Joseph hates it there, but everyone else likes it so the majority ruled. We ate, talked, and laughed for about two hours there. Give or take 15 minutes. Joseph played all of the phone messages Justin and I have left them over the past months. All the funny ones, of course. Once I pretended to be an adult video store calling about overdue gay porno films and named a long list of gay pornos without a single giggle. There was one of Justin and I pretending to be having sex while leaving them a message and at the very end Justin says "Ouch! You pinched me!" but that wasn't even fake, I really did accidentally pinch him but it was funny anyway. There's one where Justin bitches about how one night they told us to call them when I got off work, but when we did call them back they didn't answer. But Justin bitched in a funny way, he basically made it a whole lot more dramatic than it really was.
We then went to the mall in Johnson City, and went to the usual places. Hot Topic, Spencer, and GameStop. We also went to the food court to get drinks. We have a lovely picture of Jon and Joseph attacking Hunter in the food court. The story behind that is that Bruce and Hunter's dad treats homosexuality as if it were a disease and they were making fun of the concept by trying to "give Hunter the gay." All together we spent about probably two hours at the mall, give or take a half hour. Jamie for some reason looked rather sad sometimes. Jon once told me that she's depressed but often tries to hide it. Everytime we asked her if she was okay, she told us she was tired. That doesn't fool me, because I used the same excuse once upon a time.
We went to another GameStop in Johnson City, and then Best Buy. Nerds like electronics, so yeah. Jon and Joseph "snuck" around and bought some of my birthday gifts. I received from them in total: a Blood+ manga, the first volume of the Death Note anime series, a Disturbed band t-shirt, purple eyeliner, and $10 toward the third season of Veronica Mars (it was on sale for $20, and I couldn't resist). I swear, Jon and Joseph racked up quite a bit for me, and now I get to try to scrape up money when their birthdays come around to out-do them on gift giving. I always feel guilty if I don't give bigger, more expensive gifts to people than what they got me. I honestly would rather they got me cheap stuff. Well, Joseph's birthday is in May, so I've got time to save up. And Jon's birthday already passed so no worries for now. Hunter got me ditily squat, but he's a 16 yr old with no car or job so I was expecting as much. Bruce gave me a card with $10 in it. That made my jaw drop because Bruce and I aren't exactly good buddies. I don't hate or even dislike Bruce but we have the LEAST in common when it comes to our little group of friends. He could possibly know my secret about feeling guilty and want a $20 from me when his birthday comes around again.
We went to the Carmike movie theater to find out that we were too late to see a movie of our choice so we went to Sonic instead to have a little treat. This was at around 9:30 p.m., and we had to start heading back to Roan Mountain at around 11 p.m. in order to get Bruce and Hunter home on time since their curfew was midnight. Jamie was still looking sad from time to time so Jon bought her a dessert to try to make her feel better. She did cheer up momentarily at least. Then we went back to our apartment. Bruce, Hunter, and Jamie had never seen it before. We pretty much just relaxed and took a break from getting in and out of the damn car all day and walking around places. We all talked and made jokes, and various things. Joseph showed us more obscene videos on the internet, which made me want to kill him. Bruce and Jon kept getting Nimbus (our older cat) to chase a crayon around on the floor. I told them to get it away from him because I didn't want a sick kitty, but they never listened to me because I found it on the floor later. Hunter jokingly got underneath my desk and said "Look, I can sleep right here when I move in with you guys." *sigh* Hunter desperately wants to move out of his parents' place the second he turns eighteen, and has his eye on our place. This is a place barely big enough for the two of us. However, this doesn't concern Hunter, he said he'd rather sleep on the floor every night here than live with his parents. I don't blame him though, his parents are rather awful. I honestly wouldn't give a damn if he wanted to live here, but Justin has a problem with it. Well, that's about two years from now so I'm not worried about it.
When we finally got back to Roan Mountain, I was making fun of the name Jimmy Bo Johnson because well, duh, just say it. It's funny. I said that the spirit of Jimmy Bo Johnson was gonna get Bruce and Hunter as they crossed this creepy, dark field to get to their trailer. Bruce got his books and stuff out of our trunk first and walked across the field without Hunter. He then dropped his stuff in the middle of the field and started picking them all up. I then burst into laughter because I just warned him that the spirit of Jimmy Bo Johnson was going to get him then out of nowhere he dropped his stuff. You had to have been there. I don't believe in ghosts so I know that's not why he dropped his stuff, but it was so funny and coincidental. After Hunter got his stuff out of the trunk he just gave me that look he does when he's confused as to why I was laughing, and then proceeded across the field too, and I joked that he'd best be careful or he'll get attacked too. Jamie was still looking sad when we dropped her off at her house. We asked if she was really okay and that if something was wrong we'd try to be of help. She kept insisting that she was tired and that she really did have fun with us.
I woke that day with a nice phone message from Joseph yelling that they were going to be at our apartment within minutes and that my ass had better be up by then. Then about a second after that message ended there was a knock at the door. I thought "I guess they lied and are already here." But it wasn't Jon and Joseph, instead it was someone I wasn't expecting to see that day at all. It was Chani. If you don't know who the hell that is, she's a lesbian friend of ours we met through Jon and Joseph. She presented a birthday card and candy to me. It was dark chocolate, which I loathe so I nicely told her how much I hated it and said she and Jon could have it all since they love dark chocolate. Jon and Joseph arrived about 5 minutes after Chani did. We had time to kill since Justin wasn't home from school yet. It was around 1 p.m. and he didn't get home until about 2 p.m. so we just sort of sat in the living room and talked and watched stupid, weird videos on the internet that Joseph had found. Joseph loves torturing us with weird videos on the internet. I wish he'd find a new hobby. Jon and Joseph said I'd get my birthday present later because they didn't have all of it yet. I just shrugged it off. It was code for "we haven't bought your presents yet because we like to wait until the last minute."
At about 1:45 p.m., I started getting ready because I had smeared eyeliner all over my face from the day before, and my work clothes on. For the day, I wore a long sleeve fishnet, with a "Bleach" anime t-shirt on over it, and my traditional black and purple Hot Topic Tripp pants. While I was getting ready Justin came home and started bitching at me to hurry up like always. You know, for me to look half way decent, it takes a lot of time, so you all can shut the fuck up. Chani said that she had other things to do and that she was going to leave. I hugged her good bye, and then we all headed out. Chani really meant "I'm too shy to hang out with people I don't know very well so I'm going to leave." She doesn't know our other friends at all so yeah. We were going to pick up Bruce and Hunter at their high school in Roan Mountain which was about 45 minutes away, and we were late leaving.
We found Bruce and Hunter at Cody's house. Cody is a friend of theirs that lives directly across the street from their school so it wasn't out of the way at all. To our surprise Jamie was there with them and was going to join in on our celebration. This is rare because Jamie's parents are super paranoid and don't like her to hang out with a lot of guys but because I was going to be there they let loose of her leash a little. Justin and I arrived there before Joseph and Jon arrived in their car. So we stood around and talked a bit waiting for them. I gave Hunter his amusing birthday card and my homemade post card of Kon from "Bleach." Justin had bought him a real post card last year so we thought it would be funny. Jon and Joseph finally arrived about 10 minutes after we did, and we had Cody take a picture of all of us. If I can, I'll have those pictures put on a downloadable CD for the computer, that way I can put them on here and myspace later. Cody couldn't go with us because he had to work. Plus, he's more of just Bruce and Hunter's friend, the rest of us didn't really know him. Bruce went with Jon and Joseph in their car, while Hunter and Jamie went in our car.
We met at a place called Pizza Inn in two towns over from Roan Mountain. Joseph hates it there, but everyone else likes it so the majority ruled. We ate, talked, and laughed for about two hours there. Give or take 15 minutes. Joseph played all of the phone messages Justin and I have left them over the past months. All the funny ones, of course. Once I pretended to be an adult video store calling about overdue gay porno films and named a long list of gay pornos without a single giggle. There was one of Justin and I pretending to be having sex while leaving them a message and at the very end Justin says "Ouch! You pinched me!" but that wasn't even fake, I really did accidentally pinch him but it was funny anyway. There's one where Justin bitches about how one night they told us to call them when I got off work, but when we did call them back they didn't answer. But Justin bitched in a funny way, he basically made it a whole lot more dramatic than it really was.
We then went to the mall in Johnson City, and went to the usual places. Hot Topic, Spencer, and GameStop. We also went to the food court to get drinks. We have a lovely picture of Jon and Joseph attacking Hunter in the food court. The story behind that is that Bruce and Hunter's dad treats homosexuality as if it were a disease and they were making fun of the concept by trying to "give Hunter the gay." All together we spent about probably two hours at the mall, give or take a half hour. Jamie for some reason looked rather sad sometimes. Jon once told me that she's depressed but often tries to hide it. Everytime we asked her if she was okay, she told us she was tired. That doesn't fool me, because I used the same excuse once upon a time.
We went to another GameStop in Johnson City, and then Best Buy. Nerds like electronics, so yeah. Jon and Joseph "snuck" around and bought some of my birthday gifts. I received from them in total: a Blood+ manga, the first volume of the Death Note anime series, a Disturbed band t-shirt, purple eyeliner, and $10 toward the third season of Veronica Mars (it was on sale for $20, and I couldn't resist). I swear, Jon and Joseph racked up quite a bit for me, and now I get to try to scrape up money when their birthdays come around to out-do them on gift giving. I always feel guilty if I don't give bigger, more expensive gifts to people than what they got me. I honestly would rather they got me cheap stuff. Well, Joseph's birthday is in May, so I've got time to save up. And Jon's birthday already passed so no worries for now. Hunter got me ditily squat, but he's a 16 yr old with no car or job so I was expecting as much. Bruce gave me a card with $10 in it. That made my jaw drop because Bruce and I aren't exactly good buddies. I don't hate or even dislike Bruce but we have the LEAST in common when it comes to our little group of friends. He could possibly know my secret about feeling guilty and want a $20 from me when his birthday comes around again.
We went to the Carmike movie theater to find out that we were too late to see a movie of our choice so we went to Sonic instead to have a little treat. This was at around 9:30 p.m., and we had to start heading back to Roan Mountain at around 11 p.m. in order to get Bruce and Hunter home on time since their curfew was midnight. Jamie was still looking sad from time to time so Jon bought her a dessert to try to make her feel better. She did cheer up momentarily at least. Then we went back to our apartment. Bruce, Hunter, and Jamie had never seen it before. We pretty much just relaxed and took a break from getting in and out of the damn car all day and walking around places. We all talked and made jokes, and various things. Joseph showed us more obscene videos on the internet, which made me want to kill him. Bruce and Jon kept getting Nimbus (our older cat) to chase a crayon around on the floor. I told them to get it away from him because I didn't want a sick kitty, but they never listened to me because I found it on the floor later. Hunter jokingly got underneath my desk and said "Look, I can sleep right here when I move in with you guys." *sigh* Hunter desperately wants to move out of his parents' place the second he turns eighteen, and has his eye on our place. This is a place barely big enough for the two of us. However, this doesn't concern Hunter, he said he'd rather sleep on the floor every night here than live with his parents. I don't blame him though, his parents are rather awful. I honestly wouldn't give a damn if he wanted to live here, but Justin has a problem with it. Well, that's about two years from now so I'm not worried about it.
When we finally got back to Roan Mountain, I was making fun of the name Jimmy Bo Johnson because well, duh, just say it. It's funny. I said that the spirit of Jimmy Bo Johnson was gonna get Bruce and Hunter as they crossed this creepy, dark field to get to their trailer. Bruce got his books and stuff out of our trunk first and walked across the field without Hunter. He then dropped his stuff in the middle of the field and started picking them all up. I then burst into laughter because I just warned him that the spirit of Jimmy Bo Johnson was going to get him then out of nowhere he dropped his stuff. You had to have been there. I don't believe in ghosts so I know that's not why he dropped his stuff, but it was so funny and coincidental. After Hunter got his stuff out of the trunk he just gave me that look he does when he's confused as to why I was laughing, and then proceeded across the field too, and I joked that he'd best be careful or he'll get attacked too. Jamie was still looking sad when we dropped her off at her house. We asked if she was really okay and that if something was wrong we'd try to be of help. She kept insisting that she was tired and that she really did have fun with us.