Yesterday

Yesterday started off like most of my days – I got up early, opened the store, dealt with customers, and wondered what I did to deserve this life. In fact until recently I felt that my life was in a serious rut and thus the reason for my chronic doldrums. I mean while all of my old friends have been away at school meeting new people and having new experiences, I’ve been stuck in Forks helping my family at our store, the Newton Outfitters. Its not like I’ve totally abandoned the idea of getting a degree, its just that I have to stay close enough so that I can go to school and continue to help out at the store. With my friends and Jessica no longer in my day to day life all I could see was the shredded remains of my life being swept away into a tidy bowl clean vortex. But then yesterday happened…

Yesterday, for the first time in months, I spent some quality time with Angela Webber and Lauren Mallory, two really good friends from High School. Both of them seemed to have changed so much but being with them felt really comfortable and I haven’t felt like that in some time. While it’s never a good idea to place yourself in the middle of girl-world, even when I was tuning out their incessant ramblings on boys and boyfriends it still felt nice just hanging out with them. If my day had ended there I would have been happy, but unexpectedly I ran into Bella Swan, another one of my High School buds. Well at least we had become buddies. But that’s a story for another time.

Running into Bella was another highlight of my day. I hadn’t seen Bella since her wedding to… well since her wedding day. I know it may seem petty but, I really can’t stand her husband. I never thought he was right for her or even good enough for her. But for Bella it was a different. Anyways I tried to say hello without showing my disdain for him to much, and for the most part it was like old times. I kidded her and she kidded me. It was definitely a pattern we repeated often in High School, but she’s not the same Bella I knew. My Bella was a serious threat to humanity with her lack of balance and her klutzy, uncoordinated bumbling. But this Bella, his Bella seemed lithe and graceful. She seemed supremely confidant and very much in love with a man for whom I care little. If I am being truthful, I am very happy for her.

After talking with Bella and seeing Angie and Lauren off to their spa treatment, I headed back to my parents place to watch the Mariners play the Rangers. Unfortunately, my Mariners were not up to the task and ended up losing 7 to 1.

After the game, that’s when things got really crazy…