January 1st of 2017
Today was average, woke up at 10:30am to get ready for church, wore some simple grey jeans, my black boots with the Black Green Day shirt my boyfriend Justin bought me from Hot Topic and I added my black blazer over it. Mom was rushing everybody out of the house so we can get there early, but what's the point of rushing when the new location of our church is literally right around the corner. Before heading out the house I made myself some hot cocoa in the red coffee cup Mrs.Arvie gave me before the Christmas break with my name written on it, she gave it to all her office workers. After the microwave hit zero I started heading out the door and locked it behind me then picked up my pace to get inside the passenger seat. As we drove off I just sang quietly to the radio thanking that all Christmas songs are over with, hearing them repetitively drove me nuts. Not even 5 minutes passed and we arrived to the parking lot of our Church, as we got out the car I saw a pack of snappers on the passenger compartment of the car door and decided to put them in my pocket to pop them on the floor afterwards with my little brother Jefferson. We start walking towards the entrance of the building saying hello to the door holders and my mom decides to lead us to the front area of the altar to sit, I felt very uncomfortable because the night before I sat all the way to the back where I wouldn't have as many eyes watching me from behind. I just manned up a bit and got over the anxiousness I felt with people behind me, I still get looks from my hair for it being so short and slightly purple, they're probably used to it by now seeing that I've already tried most of the colors of the rainbow with my hair. That's why it's so short with all the damaging and burning with dyes and flat ironing. As the service was about to start my mother tells me to get her tambourine from the car which she forgot and I obliged, she hands me the keys from her purse and I start making my way out and quickly made my return. We sing and people cried and then we calm down to receive the word of Jesus Christ, I was slightly bored but entertained myself with Jefferson's laser pointer, waiting for the preaching to end, I just keep thinking of Justin and how much I already miss him, so I'm just there staring into space thinking of last weeks adventures with him, from the first day he returned on Christmas to our last day together at the movies. I unknowingly kept holding the new necklace he got me which is a dark grey chain with a clear heart shaped amulet with pieces of dandelions inside of the heart, it's so beautiful and I'm grateful for him being in my life, too bad he had to leave back to San Angelo, Justin had shipped out to the Army after he graduated, and he's in the military intelligence, which is pretty cool if you ask me but I just hate how he gets busy and won't be able to text me as much, I understand it's his job but it sucks having those lonely moments knowing I can't really bother him about it, and I know when he comes back he shows me all his loving that I've been missing. My train of thought gets interrupted by the pastor announcing our monthly holy dinner where we make a pact and drink a shot of wine with a piece of bread. Now that the service is over Jeff and I walked to the back of the church where there's a park and we can pop some of our snappers, I cross by Fernando, he smiles at me so excitedly saying "We're about to turn that tractor on." He says pointing to the huge contraption at the back of the church, it warmed my heart seeing him that happy. "Good luck." I say as he walks with the battery from his car in his hand on the way to the tractor. Jeff and I already start popping the snappers on the trees and startling a few members of our church which makes me laugh on the inside of my head. "Jeffrey!" I hear Marvin our church drummer yell as he walks towards us with my little sister Ruth aside. " I just came by to bring your sister to you." Marvin says. "Thanks, you should've kept her though." Jefferson jokes. "Haha, not my responsibility." Marvin says while chuckling, he turns to me to hug me goodbye then leaves us. " you guys almost forgot me ." Ruth says. "Sorry we didn't mean too, we honestly thought mom would go get you.. Guess she didn't" I say. "Here are some snappers to make you feel better." I add. Ruth gets some snappers and leaves with her little group of other 10 year old girls to have fun with snapping. Suddenly I hear an engine roar, " It worked!" Fernando yells as the tractor comes to life. I smile back at him and then I feel a tug on my blazer by a small boy named Caleb. "Can I have some snappers? " Caleb innocently asks. "Of course." I reply as I handed him a few on his small hands . I smiled at the excitement that filled his eyes as he threw a snapper up in the air for it to just land with a popping sound. My phone starts vibrating, I take out my phone to see mom calling, that's where I knew it was our queue to meet her at the car. " Jeff! Ruth! Let's go!" I yell. We walk our way to the car and say our goodbyes to whomever we cross paths with. We hop in the car and mom drives away home which like I said before takes us like less than 3 minutes. I get home and heat up some homemade Buffalo Wings, they were delicious, I finished them washed my hands and made my way upstairs to my room, made myself Comfortable by taking off my shoes and pants and stayed with my Green Day shirt on, then I make my way to my bed and lay there to watch the rest of Stranger Things on Netflix. I stayed in bed for hours and hours until I drifted off to sleep. Goodnight
