Tuesday, October 13, 2009

A Decade

So I’ve been out of school for officially ten years now. This past weekend was our reunion weekend and I went to each activity that was held over the weekend. It was really nice seeing everyone, some people I hadn’t seen since graduation and some I could definitely go another ten years without seeing.

Friday night was bowling and I actually bowled a pretty good game. A couple classmates that I’ve known since elementary school showed up and it was nice talking with them. When it was just about time to go a fight ensued between two guys and the police came out in droves, at that point I decided it was time to go.

Saturday night was club night. We met at some hole in the wall that only had about twenty people when I arrived at about 11:00pm. The club had the nerve to have a $50 minimum if you were using your credit/debit card. I thought that was a huge joke, I’ve never heard of such a high limit being placed as a minimum.

There was a classmate of mine at the weekend’s festivities who was friends with Scott back when we were dating. It made me cringe to see him. He tried befriending me telling me stories about Scott and later asking me for my number. He kept asking me to go to breakfast after bowling but I wasn’t interested. So now back to Saturday. He called himself ignoring me at the club which was fine by me. Somehow during the night he made his way over to me, very much intoxicated.

I was talking to a guy I was friends with and had a crush on back in high school and here comes Drunky causing a scene. He literally hit the guy in the stomach I was talking to as he was reaching out to grab me from behind in the middle of my conversation. I was not impressed at all and I threw my elbow back into him while trying to regain my balance.

My crush was like wow, he was extra possessive and I asked around to see if you guys came together. I said no we didn’t and explained our last interaction was back in 2000 when I was dealing with Scott. Drunky did not get the hint and made it a point to come over a couple other times trying to dance.

We stayed at the club until closing and then my sister dropped me off at home. I turned my phone on silent as I do when I am really exhausted and don’t care to be disturbed. As soon as I hit the bed, I was out.

The next morning I woke up and Drunky had called me at 4am inviting me to the casino for breakfast, I was so glad that I had silenced my phone because he would have surely gotten cussed out.

One set of my girlfriends and I decided we’d have one last lunch together before my move. We had a nice time, we went to Benihana and the chef was taking forever playing with our food, I just wanted to eat. When I have a bit too much to drink I rarely eat so that meal at four was my first attempt at eating for the day. My friend tried convincing me that the only way to beat a hangover was to add more liquor to my system.

After eating we stopped and picked up a few groceries and each went our separate ways. I hadn’t decided if I was going to make it to the Class Dinner or not. I logged into FB and everyone was talking about getting ready so I made myself get ready as a final goodbye to ten years.

The hall that was rented was decorated in our school colors and they even had a huge 1999 balloon. There was catered food, an open bar and my favorite, cake. I decided to partake in wine as we toasted to friendship and those who didn’t live to make it to the reunion, one of my good friends was killed two years ago.

I was the first to leave the gathering and headed across the city to see someone I hadn’t seen in what felt like ages, more to come on that.

6 comments:

Rashan Jamal said...

I've never gone to any of my high school reunions. I didn't want to see them anymore after I graduated.

I'm gonna need drunky to back up a little bit. Intrusive is not a good look.

Any progress with the crush? LOL

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Trish said...

Rashan-Yeah I didn't think I would go to mine either. I already dread running into people and them asking me if I have kids(nope), married(another no) but I took one for the team.

That fool had me so mad, if I never saw him again, that'd be too soon.

The crush and I texted a bit Sunday but there will be nothing to that. I saw a guy that will forever have my heart over the weekend and I'm wondering if we still have a chance.

Young woman on a journey said...

my 10 year is coming up next year. i can't say that i look forward to it the way you looked forward to yours. i doubt mine will bring these fun stories of drunkies and all. lol. just joking. i'm just glad that you had a good time and that your last few days are going super well! yaaay!

Nina said...

interesting!

so, the crush guy...what happened?

Trish said...

YW-I can see where you're coming from. Maybe by then you'll change your mind, it was funny seeing how everyone looked exactly the same, well from the neck up. I am trying to behave these last two days, we shall see.

Nina-Haven't talked to the crush since Sunday but there won't be any more stories about him. Tell me why did one of my classmates but a picture of he and I talking and for the caption it said "I see you Trish, LMAO!" I want to write her so bad and tell her to take it down, but oh well.