Homesickness and a Newfound Cure

 Warning: This post will be entirely writing with no pictures.

I had my first homesick day yesterday. I wanted a mom hug and some Brian time neither of which I can have. I missed everything and woke up this morning (at the ungodly hour 6am) feeling the same way. So in some free time I had this morning I sat down in a beautiful park put in my earbuds and started writing. I wrote myself an alternate reality in which I was spending the day with my friends at home. 

Can I just go hang out with my friends today? I think that's what I'll do; it is a minimum Monday so we will have plenty of time. We will walk to Henderson Center after school and I will get a chai and a dinosaur cookie then we can admire the bikes in the bike shop window. We will stop in the Toy Box to play with the puppets and look for new board games that we never buy. Then we will go to Fin n' Feather to admire the cute animals and hear the bird story and the spider story just one more time. I will tell Josie that I still owe her a goldfish and she will confirm that I do but I never buy the fish. We will walk on to Fresh Freeze while Brian and I joke about the banks across the street. At Fresh Freeze Josie will order fries and a shake. We will all mooch off Josie's fries, which is why she got a large order, even Scott who got a bacon cheeseburger and has a bottomless pit stomach. After we are all done eating we will go back to my house where Bryce will kick Scott's ass at air hockey and Brian will suggest we play scrabble over an over. We will play pictionary instead. Josie and I (team awesomeness) versus Scott, Brian, and Bryce. Because Brian sucks at pictionary, and because Scott and Bryce have absolutely no mind link, Josie and I will obviously win. After we call it quits at pictionary we will walk to the park where Josie will be picked up an hour before the time agreed upon. Bryce, Brian, Scott, and I will wander around and antagonize ducks, an action accompanied by a "That's why nobody likes teenagers." On our way up the hill Bryce will sit in his enticing tree and Brian and I will laugh while Scott acts like he is above our childish nonsense. When we get home Fanny will be in her spot and Zach will be waiting for us in the kitchen. We will all talk for a while while we make coffee and wait for the cookies mom is making to come out of the oven. After we finish our coffee we will go out to the family room where Zach will put on music and we will just sit until mom brings the cookies out nice and warm with melts chocolate chips. We will devour our cookies and then everyone will head home because it is a school night, except Brian who has no homework or curfew. After I do a bit of homework we will play Yahtzee a few times before my mom gives him a ride home so he can get sone sleep for school in the morning where we will have marching band practice for homecoming. This years theme will be cinema and the band theme will be Casino Royale (like James Bond); that was Brian's and my idea. We will all wear button up white shirts, black pants, black shoes, and bow ties. We will play the James Bond theme as well as a compilation of the movie themes (Skyfall, Goldfinger, etc.) that Brian and Mr. Cox wrote together.

Although there are discrepancies in this story (I didn't thank mom for the cookies, we never just sit, and most glaringly Scott and Bryce never hung out with us at the same time) living this day for one hour made me very happy and my day was perfect from there on out. Cure to homesickness :)