best day ever!!!

this is going to be in two parts cuz its long as heck.

part one

yesterday was by far the best day ive had all year! why was it the best you ask? well, two reasons. 1) my best friend jon came home on leave from iraq and 2) the girl of my dreams said yes. not the big "yes", im much too young for that, but rather a much smaller yes that still...christ im getting ahead of my self. ill start at the begining.

so im sitting in first period PE watching a video about golf techniques (its a lesiure games PE class...) and out of nowhere i get a text message from Jon of all people. before i even read it i realized one of two things. the first one being that this was from Jon's personal cell phone so that meant that he was no longer in iraq, and the second realization that he must be coming home a day earlier than i had known. in a classical jon style, the text message said "BACK IN THE USA BITCHES!!!" my hopes were confirmed! soon after he called me with his flight number and all that necessesary info. i was to meet up with his sister and mom and we were to make our way down to pick him up. well this is where the problems started...first i couldnt get ahold of jons mom, turns out i had the wrong number. eFF. second, gabbie, jons sister, wasnt answering her phone. by the time i got ahold of her it was dangerously close to the time we needed to leave. so i was to meet her out front of the high school, and things would progress form there. i sat out front for about an hour waiting...double eFF. either im blind as a bat or...well shit i just didnt see her somehow. so anyway she ends up calling me to tell me that she has gone back home and now there isnt enough time to come back and get me. triple eFF. as im walking back to class, i run into my friend sean, talking to the security guard, who also happenes to be his grandma. IDEA! ''HEY SEAN!!! you dont really feel like going back to your sixth period do ya?'' ''WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK!?!?!? seans grandma, ''USE ANYMORE LANGUAGE LIKE THAT YOUNG MAN AND ILL WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT!!!'' so it turns out sean had been sent by his substitute teacher to take the attendance down to the office. lucky me. we go back to his class and grab his stuff and we just walk out. we haul ass to gabbies house and i made it in time to ride with them to the airport. i always seem to get lucky like this. stuff always seems to work out for me in the best possible ways. the funny part was seans grandma called to tell him that she had covered for him when another security guard was sent to look for him. family connections rock!

so anyways we get to the airport and meet jon, my best friend. suprisingly no one cried. that'll probably happen once his leave starts to run out and when he has to leave. having someone close to you be involved in the war makes it more real. its not just some story on the news to me. its so much more personal than that. jon and i are like brothers. the though of him being in harms way every day is a lot to deal with. thank god there are men like him though.