I have no title for this because I am not clever enough to come up with it.

So, I thought last night would end up a total drag. I debated just skipping out and staying home, sipping tea all by my lonesome. But then I realized really "I am only thinking that it will turn out bad because I am worried from past experiences". I guess I label things alike too much. I decided to go and give it a try.

First off, there was horse shit everywhere in the streets. The carriage rides have started downtown, so that was interesting enough. I giggled to myself at the piles in the middle of the road, thinking how lucky I was that I had a cold and couldn't smell it.

I ended up having a great night, with some unexpected people. Laughing and yelling at each other, making awkward motions and sound effects. Laughing at our friend up in the front of the room, the Korean kid in the rice hat, singing five seconds of "She Bangs", styled in the way of William Hung (Really wanted him to sing Deck the Halls, A Christmas Story style). Paining our way through some tone-deaf performers. Singing the hell out of Bohemian Rhapsody.

Really, the two the three or four or five (or more) of us had some laughs. We went to Burger King, saw more familiar faces, and a man in a Turquoise sequined jacket. We threw french fries and took pictures of our shoes. Sang parodies of Poker Face. When she drove me and another hitchhiker friend to our homes, I wanted so badly just to stay in the car and keep driving with them. "Just keep going," I mumbled. "Forget the turn. Forget the rules."
My heart dropped as "It's down here right?" was asked by the other passenger. "I KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES! DUH." "Well, SORRRRRY I was just making sure because you said to tell you where we were going, so I did."

No matter how disappointed, I laughed quietly in the back seat, and looked at the plastic Halloween masks in the floor of the car. My laughter stopped. I wished I could wear one and just be somebody else, somewhere else for a day.

But they'd know what I was trying to pull.

I got out of the car, said goodbye and half-begged to "all do this again sometime", and shut the door behind me. The sound of the tires pulling away made me feel sick. No more pretending to be older. Back to being young again. Back to reality.
I sighed myself to sleep.