When you haven’t seen your friends for months you should definitely consider this as a legitimate template for your afternoon, evening, and night!
1. Spend those first moments of being reunited with your friend holding each other tight, like you’re gonna squeeze ‘em till they pop!
2. Drive! Drive anywhere, maybe down the interstate going to the city for the afternoon or down country roads, fish-tailing to miss the patches of mud or ruts.
3. Walk down your small-town main street in your warm jackets and dark jeans, grinning because your boots are making that thum-buh sound on the sidewalk every time you step.
4. Buy a pizza from the family owned restaurant in town and go back to one of your homes to eat it while you watch Disney princess movies or Battle Ship and Captain America 1, 2, and 3, whichever ones you’re feelin’ that day.
5. And remember to eat lots of Nilla wafers and animal crackers with birthday cake dip the ENTIRE night!
6. When the sun starts to set and the colors start to appear, go outside with some hot chocolate made with hot coffee instead of hot water and sit under the huge tree with the white painted branches and a thousand lights hung in them and watch the sunset.
7. From dusk on you can finally act your age by playing Sardines! The game where one person hides and everyone else searches, and when one person finds the original hider, they hide with them till everyone is packed into the hiding place, hence the name “sardines.”
8. After half a dozen rounds of this, you’re tired and cold, and all the hot chocolate-coffee is gone. You only have once option: go into town and buy donuts!
9. When you get back to the house your voices are pretty rocky from all the sugar you’ve eaten and the karaoke you've sang with the radio every time you’ve entered the car. But you can’t stop won’t stop! WEOOO!!
10. Since you aren’t girly girls from the city, manicures and such aren’t a huge draw for ya’ll. But maybe you’ll braid each other’s hair, or maybe you’ll go riding the four-wheeler or the horses, or maybe another movie and more food are in order. Anything to keep your time together from ending.
11. Nearing midnight you might call another friend to go crash at his or her house. Or perhaps, or maybe after a few failed invites to crash at someone’s house, you’ll start prank calling people. You know who to call too because over the years, you’ve been to lots of people’s houses and you’ve noted which houses have caller ID and which ones don’t.
12. Alas, your time is ending. Maybe you’ll sneak in a few dance sessions to your favorite pop or country songs, but eventually everyone must go to bed. Hugs goodbye and promises for more let you know that you’re still best friends after being apart for the first semester of college. You might cry, or you might be sleepy, but you’re smiling anyway.
Driving home you wonder when the next time will be…
