Being Alaska

Another sleepless night. Before this morning’s sunrise I drove to my best friend’s house, climbed in through her bedroom window and jumped on her bed until she reluctantly got up. Certain kinds of people find my spontaneity entertaining, she is one of them. My parents on the other hand, well luckily they won’t even notice I’m gone. After she got dressed she left a note for her parents reading, “Alaska broke in again and is taking me hostage. See you after school.” Way to stomp all over my whole stealth-like breaking and entering, if I knew she was going to tell her parents I would have just rung the doorbell. Still, we had to sneak out her window so Seven, Baya, and Chelsea (her dogs) wouldn‘t go nuts. So we got in the car and she is talking my ear off about how we are driving in circles, which we were, but I was looking for something. Twenty minutes later I found it. Heated pool (= We raced to it and jumped in not even worrying if the owners heard our splashes. We swam until it wasn’t quite sunrise, but it was light out. We got out freezing our butts off and blasted the heat in the car trying to dry our icicle hair. We drove and drove until we found the perfect spot to watch the sun come up. We covered ourselves in blankets and got as close as we could get to my car so the heat from the exhaust would make us warmer. We laid still, laughing and smoking until Beast of Burden by The Rolling Stones came on and I insisted we dance. Being my crazy best friend I knew she wouldn’t object so we danced on till morning.



this is my favorite time of day, when its beginning to get light.
It isn't night anymore but it isn't morning either.

xo