Downey, California in the morning. Dad at Jeana's table talking about how he's going to take it with Nathan. Jeana talks of how Alicia's boyfriend took chapstick and rubbed it all over her face with her make-up. Of course dad interrupts her before she finishes the story. Jeana the ever-host, made us eggs. Shelby out of class at 12:30. Rebecca here, one of Jeana's neighborhood friends. More adult things, boyfriends, medical problems, the college basketball team all being lesbians. How many boyfriends Becca has had in the last 4 years.
We got in around 11pm last night. We pull off at what must have been the same Fosters Freeze/Chevron gas station that Devon and I stopped at back in 2008. Funny how that works though, in the middle of the desert like that, you don't have too many options. Somewhere between Indio/Coachella, Dad gives me the keys. I've got one of those Starbucks double shots, and he's out like a light. The speed on the highway really picks up. On the tip of a mountain, like coming out of a hole, I see the glitter of the lights of Indio. Too bad it's dark out. Indio driving is one of my favorites. Wind turbines everywhere. They were lit just a little bit. Little red lights, little blue lights, and maybe 10-20 minutes on the other side, La really begins. So many towns crazy shopping mall signs. Such bright and bold colors, must have gone up, I imagine in the late 80s early 90s. As plentiful as the palm trees. The LA Moat. Crazy.
The trip happened about what I thought. Like it was over before it began. Isn't that how these things happen? The weather out here is unreal beautiful. Sun is shinning. Not a cloud in the sky. I can here Jeana vacuuming inside. The sound of the fountain in the driveway, 2 fountains, birds chirping. Stepping up on the doorstep, feels kind of like I never left. That crying feeling I had driving away 3 years ago. It's nice that I can make it back here.
Mitsuwa! With Shelby and Benny. Shelby super vivid camera order number 10, udon noodles! Mifune. The Japanese stationary store of my life. I'm dropping back in there and probably going to spend 30 dollars. "Campus" notebooks. Benny is so anti-Disneyland. Snick and Benny could talk so well, because they both belong to the ex-Bambie club, apparently Shelby hasn't said anything about the great "re-connection".
For the love of god, who gave us all cameras?
Later - Cerritos College, watching Rebecca's basketball game. I have no fucking idea what is going on. So I've been just talking it up with Shelby most of the time. Back and forth talking about future stuff. Of course, it happens when you haven't see somebody, your sister in almost a year. Some male cheerleader just did a major airsplit in the moment of scoring some game saving point. These cheerleaders man, this would be my first basketball game attendance ever. But these have to be the laziest cheerleaders I've ever seen. There seems to be so many of them to be doing so much of nothing. Except Mr. Air-Splits of course. A Pacific-Islander with a Fohawk.
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