The (first) day that changed my life

So, everyone seems to always look back at there life, usually when it's fucked up, and try to see where it went wrong. I do not think my life is messed up at all, but I still always look back and can trace everything significant to particular days and events surrounding those days. I try to indulge myself in knowing that I can see exactly what it was and why it happened to change me...always in the long run...in a good way. There have been, i think, 5 days that i have that changed my life in such a way that it actually put me on another path. Of course I'm not putting them here, they come along in the story, yet this is still so far the most significant.

Fast forward to the summer after 9th grade. Kent Payne and I are sitting on his front lawn at the end of a Dead End by my house. I don't know what had gotten into me that day, but I guess I finally started to realize that sitting there was pretty boring after 5 years+ of doing so. Totally at random two girls were riding there bikes about 1 block away. I (never doing this before) started yelling to them. I expected them to just keep riding away (like everyone else that day), but the two o them came down towards us. I couldn't believe it. I was looking at Kent going, "What do we do?" These girls were Jessica Piasecki and Micheal (pronounced Michelle) Jean.

(sidenote: Jessica has an overwhelming impact of my life throughout [you'll see] and it is crazy how this world works)

We sat there talking for a bit, introducing ourselves and such. It seemed that neither of us knew exactly what to say in these situations. Four odd kids trying to see if this is how random people became friends or what. So after a few minutes of my blistering 9th grade charm (haha) Jessica offered me her phone number and said to call when we wanted to hang out again. All I had on me oddly enough was an issue of Guitar World, which she wrote on the back: "Jessica 667-1923" I would cherish this damn issue with Green Day on the cover for a long long time. I was getting dark by the time we all split, so went back home for bed. That night laying in bed I couldn't stop thinking about those two girls, and how I couldn't believe I actually yelled to them, and then actually came over.

Little did I know that thing was the exact beginning of the (first) crew.

For the next few weeks I called them periodically and we all (minus Kent who's parents had him on lockdown 24/7) hung out when we could and started becoming great friends. The days we couldn't hang out I laid on my cold concrete porch listening to Superdrag all day. We had all usually walked to my old nearby elementary school Lindsay School, and sat behind it near the playground equipment. That area was far off the roads, and basically secluded for all intensive purposes. We hung out there for hours upon hours everyday, only to see me leave at 3pm each day to deliver my paper route, and come directly back as fast as I could. I really had started to like Jessica and there was nothing I could do about it.

Soon she asked me if i wanted to go to the St. Hyacinth fair. I couldn't believe it. My first fn date. I went home that night losing it. The next day I walked to the mall with money from my jacked paper route and bought a brand new shirt trying to seem cool. as that day quickly approached I became more and more excited. The day of the fair I walked to Jessica's house pumped only to see another dude on her porch. I instantly thought it was some other guy going with us (meaning not a date). Well, it was actually James Piasecki, her brother. Jessica never in the month we had been hanging out mentioned a brother (Although now James and I have been the best of friends for a long time and he has "saved' my life more than a few times). I walked up their giant wooden porch oddly and asked if Jessica was home. A few minutes later we all loaded into their Dad's tan Buick Regal and headed to the fair.

Nothing significant occured at the fair, EXCEPT me blowing it with Jessica for the first time....

(btw...i'm going to put the music I was listening during that time at the end of each of these just to show how it also played a huge part in my life.)

music: Superdrag - Regretfully Yours