And we're driving through the middle of nowhere

I know why they say junior year is the best one. Just, my freshman and sophomore years were basically made of me "finding myself" and going through various groups of friends. Now, everything's just fallen into place and it's perfect the way it is. Of course there's some drama, I mean we ARE still talking about 16-18 year old girls here. But at least I know where I fit in and who my real friends are.

Last night I just had one of those experiences people never forget. In fact, when I see my friend Lucy at high school reunions and stuff, last night will probably be my first memory. It was just liberating, I suppose.

It started off with going to our friend Rachel's 18th birthday party. A lot of people were there, and I didn't want to spend the night cause I wanted to go to church in the morning, and I'm PMSy and don't like spending the night with terribly large groups of people. So at 11, Jacki, Lucy and I left. I was dropping Jacki off at another friends house and spending the night at Lucys. Well, I had the brilliant idea to call Andy while I was leaving cause I needed to ask him something. Lucy and Jacki were being EXTREMELY loud, and Rachel lives in the back roads. So of course, I got lost. I was very, very lost. I told Andy I'd call him back when we found where we were. Lucy told us stories about how these cops raped a car full of girls on the backroads one night. We were literally screaming our heads off. I was almost in tears.

Then all the sudden we're in this cute little town. It's not the right cute little town. It has cobblestone roads and it's just houses. We noticed that the woods near this town had a bunch of fog over and in it, and we were scared. THEN, we figured out where we were. Burketsville. As in, "The Blair Witch Project" Burketsville, Md.

We flipped. When I found the highway, I didn't know which way would get us back, but I went and went. We saw a sign for this creek, Catoctin creek..so we thought we'd ended up in a whole other town again completely. To make us less scared, I turned on a mix cd of really happy songs. The first one is "Tearin' Up My Heart" by NSYNC. Shortly after it started, I recognized a church. I screamed "YOU GUYS, IT'S HOLY FAMILY! WE'RE BACK!" We then immediatley started screaming, and I pulled over to the shoulder and we got out and started jumping around. Jacki kissed the ground.

One would think that'd be enough for one night. Oh no. It was now midniight and we went to Lucy's so Jacki could get her stuff, and then we went to Vanessa's to drop Jacki off. We ended up staying until 1 ish, and Lucy and I left. But going back to her house, we decided we didn't want to yet. When we'd dropped Jacki off, Lucy brought a baseball bat into my car. We thought it'd be fun to go get lost again, this time in my town. We ended up going to my house and trying to scare my sister and then Lucy's old house, where she told about horrible memories and we had a heart-to-heart and told our secrets. On the way back to Lucy's, we decided we STILL weren't done. I decided to go back to Rachels house. We got a flashlight and snuck around back and scared the CRAP out of the rest of the girls. It was AMAZING and exhilerating and so much fun. We left again and drove around for a little bit longer, freaking out every time we saw a cop (I can't drive past midnight and it was 2:30) and just..talking and singing.

Then we FINALLY got to her house and watched Garden State. The end.