Week 3


My eyes are repeatedly dialating, trying to focus in on the scene around me. My ears are sharp, trying to hear every little bit of all the different conversations. Sitting in a college boys house, the rug is old and worn out, beer posters hang all over the walls. The people surrounding me are under the influence, when a specific conversation gets my attention.

Dan: "You don't have to go to college to be successful yo."
Hannah: "Yes you do, good jobs require college degrees, the rest don't pay as well."
Dan: "That ain't true at all yo, tons of people go out and become millionaires without finishing college."
Hannah: "Yes it is, it might have been that way a while ago but now everyone should go to college if they want to make a good living."

I shift my weight on the arm rest of the couch, sitting next to Matt.

Matt: "Don't say anything, he will just keep fighting with you."

I lean forward to fix my eyesight on Dan, not fixing to start an argument but simply bring about a point..

Me: "I'm not saying that you need to have a college degree to be successful but it is more likely to become successful if you have one."

Dan scoots forward out of his seat, all ready to state his opinion and fight with me.

Dan: "No it's not, blah, blah, blah."

I close my ears off immediately to the non-sense he tries to feed me.
I sunk back into the leather couch and gave up on the argument, his words were foreign to me from that point on, no longer interested in what he was saying. Not to mention every other word coming out of his mouth was "yo." Hannah and I decided to start talking on our own in our corner we were sitting in."

Hannah: "Yeah yo, I yo don't need to go to school yo, 'cause you know, it ain't everything yo."
Me: "Yeah dude, I don't gotta either, who needs school yo?"

Matt jumps in on the conversation,
"You too, it isn't nice to make fun of people and how they talk." He said jokingly.

Hannah puts her laptop down on the empty side of the couch and whispers to us both, "he is so annoying! why did he have to come here!?"
Matt: "Because Han, he's one of my best friends, stop being so anti social and bitchy."

She reply's by rolling her eyes at him and picks her laptop to get back on Facebook.

I sit on the couch until Hannah tells me she is ready to go. We stand up, put our jackets on as everyone is yelling bye and cya. I check all my pockets to make sure I have everything I came in with and realized my phone was missing. I instantly look up at Matt and he has it in his hand.

"Ready? Catch!"
My hands fly out to catch my phone when the other Matt reaches out and grabs it right before I do.
"Why didn't you let me catch it!?"
"Hah, because you probably couldn't of."
"Yeah right, Matt throw it over here again and I'll catch it this time."

Matt looks at him.. "she's a joker that one.."
I snatch my phone out of his hands and wave goodbye, shutting the door behind me.