Surprise Skate Park, Timothy Alliance, and “The News” Visors

I’m in a taxi downtown, alone, and the taxi gets lost and goes the wrong way. Like he could have gone left but instead he goes straight, almost onto the highway, but then to the right is a side road.  So he takes the side road to get back to the place, wanting to eventually where left would have taken us.   But suddenly its going by an indoor/outdoor skate park with lots of people roller blading and some skating. It’s a bowl for skatign on the left and short bleachers on the right and so I tell it just to pull over here and I’ll hang out there. Cause this is even better than where I was going originally.  Then I’m so happy to hang out by a skate park and watch people do tricks.  But my friend is with me, this tall guy I used to know in college who was like, goofy and cute, but mostly just not too committed and he drops me off and sorta says bye to me and says lets meet up later, and he gives me a big hug and kiss goodbye as I go to be by myself at the skate park.  Everyone is watching and side eyeing and like who is this duo kissing goodbye?  And I put my guitar off to the side with my backpack then he goes and I stay and watch.  I feel like this guy was really performative, though.  Like he didn’t actually like me very much… nor I him.  So, it was just kinda strange. And even later i think of reaching out to him, but I’m like, “Shouldn’t he reach out to me? I’m not going to call him.”

Later, I show up the first day for this big intensive that will last at least a few weeks or a month. It’s like a competition and its like rooms inside of a bigger room and its the back room with like bunk beds and big windows. I walk by a bunch of other rooms. It’s a weird vibe though like no one there is truly your friend and it’s like dog-eat-dog.  There’s a common area with a stage in the middle and then all the bedrooms with glass walls and lots of bunk beds in each room. The bunkbeds are against the windows outside and its really bright. I am on the top bunk above a girl I dont know named Emily.  The room is super nice and lots of sunlight and the bottom bunk bed is bigger than the top one. They have like white features on the beds and white framing made out of white wood.  This is a super nice place that wasn’t liek a typical cabin or wahtever. It was liek a really fancy but minimalistic room.  

Then it’s time to go to another place, leave the bedroom/common area for a bit, so we go outside and have to travel there.  A groups girl including Emily is going there to the next place and they want to take a taxi but I choose to save money. And their vibe is so weird I don’t want to owe them a favor.

Then we go and arrive, I take a bus, and then they say it’s time to “work on the news”. But then Timothy chalamee is there, part of the group. He is giving everyone weird stuff like a freaky drinks. I was confused, cause I wanted to befriend him and trust him, but he seemed to just be like trying to survive and screwing over everyone in weird ways.  And then he was giving me a bucket of water with a gameboy in it, almost like he was trying to electrocute me.  But he was being crazy to everyone and trying to get them sorta to fall for one of his tricks.  And everyone is is trying to get each other, too.  Like its almost liek a hunger games type situation.  

So three women work together and I’m sitting with these guys and the guys are being kinda rude and like just playing the game as planned  and kinda picking on me and I can’t tell if they’ll kill me off or not.  So then its time to start “working on the news” and we get into smaller groups and its me and timothy chalimee in a room together.

 And i used too think he was cute before he was in a lot of movies and kinda overdone, so I decide, you know what? I like him, he’s cute, and if we sleep together and couple up, he’ll probably be way nicer to me and have my back.  It’s liek a win-win-win, cause I wouldn’t even mind dating him.  So then he says something about how “you have to do what you can while there’s an opportunity” and I say, yeah.. you do, and I approach him while he’s on a bed. And at first he doesn’t understand whats going on but then he does. 

Then above us are so many cables, this person has so many wires on their bunk bed (but its a bottom bunk) and there are wires all over hanging on the top, organized-ish, but like lots and lots of thin wires connecting to a router and different things. So start to make love just for a moment but then a guy comes in, its his bed.  But then he starts getting us like books and pictures of modern and medieval like sexy pictures or wahtever and then he tells us about advancements in modern technology and blah blah. And he’s kinda like, not concerned about it and totally cool with us hookign up. And the whole time we’re like almost naked but then another guy comes in the room and he doesn’t realize waht was just going on, so obviously we’re doing okay and covered up fine and just seem like three people hanging otu talign about random stuff. 

Then a counselor comes in and passes out big hats to everyone. Liek visors.  And so then she gives three green rimmed and one orange rimmed.  And I realize that this whole time Timothy hasn’t been rude to me.  Actually, he even goes and hands me a hat so he’s clearly seeing me different, like an alley and friend and wahtever.  Maybe.  So then another teacher walks by and sorta says someting to us trying to catch us all goofing off but then the three boys make a sound each and then I stat beatboxing and then we convince her we’re just practicing a song for later and she just thinks were being weird but believable. And then they laugh and are impressed that I came up with that beatboxing idea at the last minute.  It worked. 

Then its time to go and they walk off and leave me there and the group of women from earlier come back in a nd look at my stuff and want to go through it to do a photoshoot and I’m like, “you guys, no, thats my stuff”. And they’re like - “you didnt even do the news”, and I’m like, “Yeah I did. Look!” And I show them I have the hat (which I guess the visor is proof that you ‘did the news’" and they’re like “ugh okay, fine, you did the news so you get to keep your stuff”.  So then I just decide to go put my stuff away back on my bed.  Including one box I have that is so cool and it’s like a cardboard box, they’re all cardboard boxes that I have, but one is lined in pearls around the brim. It’s the one the women wanted to steal from me. 

So instead I walk back to my room and at first I couldn’t remember which room I was in but then I see its the very last room to the right , next to the stage, and there are a few rooms before with similar vibes.  All the rooms have glass walls.  And then I get to my room and there are lots of bunk beds against the walls and you can see they have dry erase boards on each bed and at this point everyone’s names are written on them and Emily’s name is below mine and it says “Kelly” on mine. My bed is on the top and you can draw dry erase on your window too so I come up with a few ideas of what to draw… first I think pizza but then I’m liek “hell no” and eventually settle on two pieces of pie and one piece is normal and one is fragmented into super small pieces.

I draw that on the window area above my bed.   and then I also hang up a picture of myself thats alike a paper drawing with extra big legs and feet almost liek it was a picture I traced by my body. Liek it was an art project we’d done earlier. It’s a huge picture that is bigger than me And I tape that up on the window to decorate, even though it kinda intrudes in Emliy’s space but I think its fine since she was the nicest of the rude girls and put my boxes onto my bed and then walk back out.  

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