“Are you crazy? I’m not taking this from you!” Lana says.
“You’re not, I’m giving you it. It looked much better on you than it did on me anyway,” She says. This is another thing I love about Genevieve, she’s a giver.
“Gen I–” Lana starts, but is quickly interrupted.
“Can, and you will,” Genevieve says. “Something to remember me by,” she adds with a shoulder shrug.
“Like I would ever forget you,” Lana says scoffing.
Then they pull each other into another hug and this time there are more tears, I’m guessing because of the alcohol, but there’s also laughter this time about how many tears there are. Girls are funny. I look to my right and see Derek wiping away another tear.
I throw a pillow that was on the floor at him.
“Dude, seriously?” I laugh at him.
“I can’t help it, they’re gonna miss each other so much, and I’m gonna miss you too bro,” he says.
“Alright, bring it in,” I tell him and we meet in the middle giving each other a brief bro hug,This guy!
“Alright so everything is pretty much packed up then. We can load up the car tomorrow so that just leaves us with one last thing,” Genevieve says. The three of us look around like we are all equally confused to what Genevieve is alluding to, but it’s typical Genevieve to always have something up her sleeve.
“Since it’s my last night of college, there’s one thing I’ve always wanted to do, something kind of crazy.”
She grins wickedly. “And you losers are doing it with me!”
43
Genevieve
You can’t always choose your blood, but you can choose your people. And damn, I chose well. I’m so glad I convinced Lana and the boys into doing this, not that I doubted myself.
I could pretty much anyone into anything. Except Professor O’Gwen, that woman hates me so much she wouldn’t change her outfit if I paid her.
Standing here has made me realize that all I needed in life was some good people I could turn into family. Material things come and go, but friendships could last a lifetime.
I want the things in life that money can’t buy.
I don’t know where I’ll be in the next two years, or even the next two months, but I do know I can count on these people I have by my side.
All of us take turns making eye contact making sure we’re all full in. We all took our shoes off already so the only thing left is for us to jump in.
The four of us are holding hands in front of the union fountain getting ready to jump in its frigid temperatures.
We are all fully clothed since the boys didn’t have swimsuits and I wasn’t about to only have Lana and I do it so all of us are going in clothed. I personally think it makes the whole experience way better. Plus it’s way too cold out for bikinis, not that it’s stopped me before…
Lana doing this with me, no matter how much convincing it took from my end means a lot to me. This goes against all her codes of conduct but I feel special that she would do this for me. She showed up for me, no matter how uncomfortable it made her. I’m glad to see her lighten up a bit. I just hope she will be okay without me, but I don’t have a doubt in my mind that she won’t be.
We’re standing there like some kind of wet-footed Breakfast Club, four idiots, one perfect, ridiculous memory in the making.
“Everyone ready?” I yell.
“Ready!” Everyone says back.
“One, two, three!” I count, then we run towards the fountain and hop right in.
My recently flowy yoga pants become skin tight and my white shirt starts to become see through. Nothing this campus hasn’t seen before.
The four of us splash around for what feels like a long while, when I look up and start to see snow fall from the sky. It’s early December so sounds about right. Snow starts to fall, slow, quiet, like the universe decided to hit pause for a second and let us feel something magic. I guess when it rained earlier it wasn’t as cold as it is now to turn into snow. I lift my hands out to feel the soft snowflakes kiss my skin. I feel like I’m in a movie, and Aspen and everyone else must agree too because they stop splashing and look up at the sky too.
