You are probably going to pee your pants once you're done reading what I'm about to tell you. Be forewarned - this. will. be. extremely. long. I have to like take a deep breath and try and collect myself. I had one of the most amazing fucking weekends since I've been here in New York, and I want to tell you every single detail of it.
I suppose I'll start with a brief overview of my relationship with Travis Palen, the boy from Oklahoma...
Travis and I met on the Internet when I was 14 and he was 15 or 16, through a website called facethejury.com. That was my primo punkrock stage and he stumbled across my profile with the cute picture and profile packed with bands I was into.. he instantly thought "This girl is awesome, I want to marry her!" So he IMed me that very night and the first words he ever said to me where "will you marry me?" And my response? "sure!" ... "who is this?" Haha. Thus spawned a relationship between us unlike any other. We were smitten with eachother in high school, we'd talk for HOURS online, e-mail each other several times a week and have phone conversations that would last anywhere between 3 and 9 hours long every Saturday night (our song is "Saturday," by Fall Out Boy..). We were amazingly close, bonded over our lives and specifically our common interested lay in music; and with that came this really, really deep seeded love and respect for each other that I've never really felt with anyone else. As the years went on our communication became more sporadic than constant, but he drove for 20+ hours to Pennsylvania my senior year to see Fall Out Boy & the Academy Is.. with me. That was the first time we met. The point of the story is, he's been one of my closest friends, albeit a distant one, for a huge chunk of my life thus far and he was one of the first people I called when Adam and I broke up, which is when we started talking about getting together again soon. We decided on this past weekend because Say Anything was playing in the city, and we were going to go... but as it turned out, we didn't manage to get tickets because they were sold out. Travis and his roommate Ryan had still booked airfare to come here anyway, so fly out here they did....
I had done some Myspace stalking the week before they flew out and discovered that Ryan was really, really cute. He's only a few inches taller than me but he's built very nicely, has long blonde hair and is just freakin... gorgeous. So I was pretty excited when I found that out; not only did I get to see Travis but he's bringing someone CUTE!! I friended him on myspace and just sent a message like "Hey, this is Adrienne, Travis' friend, I just thought I'd say hi since you're staying at my house this weekend..." and he responded like "I hope you're ready, because I'm sure not" Aww. Excellent. I drove out to JFK airport on Friday to pick them up and brought them back to the island. Right off the bat we were laughing with each other and telling stories and trading bits of music knowledge and singing... I was sort of concerned that Travis and I would be awkward since we haven't seen each other in 3 years, and that it would be extra awkward with Ryan there, someone I'd never even met, but my worries were dispelled instantly. I was overjoyed to see Travis and definitely hugged him for like 5 minutes straight when they first got off the plane.
Let me take a brief interlude here.. Meaghan, their lives are SO different from ours. So incredibly different. Obviously living in fucking OKLAHOMA is so so so different. But even with day to day shit... neither of them are in school right now, but they have both taken a couple of semesters' worth.. Travis I think has 3 semesters done and Ryan finished 5, I believe.. they live together in an apartment in Oklahoma City and.. umm... they both smoke a lot of weed. Like.. everyday. Like they were griping the whole weekend about how they didn't have any to smoke. I didn't know Travis's habits had gotten to an everyday point, which made me a little antsy at first, but eventually I didn't care anymore and just laughed at them for being so "Ughh I can't wait to smoke!" Otherwise.. Travis works for the state government doing god-knows-what. I think it's just like office assistant shit, but he makes a pretty decent salary and benefits and all that jazz. Ryan, on the other hand, plays poker for a living... like, online poker. Like a couple grand a month income. Whoa. He also works in a private airport as a mechanic. He's not even remotely into any of the music Travis and I like except for a few Say Anything songs, he listens to a lot of old school hip hop and classic rock and tons of gangster music (I made fun of him for trying to be gangster all weekend lol). So just.. their lives are so incredibly different, and it's just.. I know it's NOTHING compared to what you're experiencing right now with being in a zillion different countries, but it's ridiculous to know that two people like Travis and myself can have such a strong bond and be so different. Even personalitywise.. Travis is one of the most pragmatic people I have ever met, and doesn't do much of the sympathy bit.. like when Adam and I broke up, he was like "Okay. That fucking sucks a lot, like.. a lot. But now it's time to do something different and not let this destroy your life." Basically what everyone else told me but more.. directly. He doesn't sugarcoat a THING. Which can throw others off, but.. to me.. it's just Travis. And I appreciate it and love him for it. For the record, there is NO romantic interest between the two of us. Like I said, we were SMITTEN in high school, but it's just evolved into something so much more. He's like.. a hetero, platonic soulmate. Haha. So back to the weekend...
We got back to my house and decided that since the guys had been traveling all day (their transit got so fucked up.. they were supposed to arrive in New York around noon, and didn't end up making it til 5 because of flight delays) and were exhausted that we'd just go pick up a case of beer (Travis is 22 and Ryan, 21), make some dinner at home and chill out before heading into the city the next day. So we did so, I made chicken and pasta (SOUND FAMILIAR???) and we ripped through a case of Bud Light. Since the guys don't drink that often because they're always smoking, I beered them in no time, and Ryan made some remark about how "Jeez, you really ARE in college, look at you put those away!" It was so chill because we were just sitting at my kitchen table with some pop punk station playing on Live365 on the Tivo (so me and Travis were playing name the band lol) and trading stories.. I told Ryan all about the Adam breakup and he told us about how he got arrested in Kansas (which is a hilarious story) and we just kept getting drunker and drunker... we all ended up in the family room together when Arielle got home and I was dancing around and spinning on my butt on the floor with the dogs and the guys were just laughing with me.. it was just.. so nice to hang out with them with awesome music and to feel... like... they were MY friends. And there was a moment with Ryan while Travis was in the bathroom and I said something to him about cuteness and how I could tell he thought I was cute (I was totally kidding) and he was like "Well.. yeah.. I do think you're cute." And I was like "Well, I think you're cute too! So that works out!" And then we just smiled drunky smiles at each other. We all eventually moved downstairs for the night and we were all feeling pretty nice and intoxicated.. I have no idea how this transpired, but I ended up putting on a huge pair of blowup shoes that we had laying around from someone's bat mitzvah.. and Ryan and I started like.. fighting. He wrestled in highschool so he knows all those moves and shit so he was like.. throwing me around and I was just scrapping back at him in my big goofy blowup shoes. I'm sure that had it been recorded in some way it would have been like the dumbest, most hilarious thing ever...(Ryan did take a picture with his camera of me like karate kicking the air with the shoes on) but I just remember thinking like... holy fuck, we are flirting so much right now. So eventually we all just crashed with some Family Guy playing (of course !), Travis and I slept on one couch (not cuddlestyle.. like heads at opposite ends style) and Ryan slept on the other one.
We woke up the next day at like 9 or so, and I got up and showered and came back downstairs and the boys were STILL asleep.. so I was obnoxious and made them wake up. Haha. Travis slept til like 10 or whatever and Ryan got up to shower and get ready when I woke them. There was one point where I was sitting on the stairs in my sweats after having showered with the towel wrapped around my head and Ryan like came up to me and took the towel off and messed with my wet hair and he's like "There you go.. just a little chhhh, chhh (hairspray noise), and you're good to go!" And I just... could not stop laughing. I think right there was when I started to look at him as more than Travis's friend and like... a potential GUY. He was even cuter in person than online, so... eeeeek! Him and I were butting heads in a silly way because he's got a REALLY dry sense of sarcasm and you know how I love to bust balls all the time so I feel like our senses of humor complemented eachother very well. We got along great and asdigjs;digj;woijegsjld THERE IS SO MUCH MORE STORY TO TELL YOU. I'm going to be typing all night, I have work at 7AM tomorrow morning and it's almost 12:30 now and I DON'T CARE because you're my best friend in the fucking world and I want to tell you absolutely everything. Not to mention I want it to be written down too somewhere where I can remember it always....
So we get ready, make some food, I drive over to StonyBrookU to pick up Meghan and we head over to the train station to begin the journey to NYC. It was me, Travis, Ryan, Arielle, and Meghan all together. We got there and got Starbucks (OF COURSE.. there are 2 Starbucks in Penn Station, literally right down the hall from eachother lol) and began the day... the guys were griping about being starving so we hit the streets and found a cute little Chinese restaurant a few blocks down from Penn Station. The guys were like.. googly eyed over NYC. It's definitely overwhelming the first time you go there, and we were all laughing about how WOAHH they were. After lunch we were trying to find the correct subway to get down to Battery Park so we could see the Statue of Liberty, and at one point the guys and Arielle descended downward into one of the stations to see which train it was, and Meghan and I stayed topside.. the conversation went like this...
Me: So what do you think of them??
Meghan: Dude, I totally have a crush on Travis. Like, already.
Me: *laugh*
Meghan: And dude, do you have like.. a thing for Ryan??
Me: No....
Meghan: Are you sure?
Me: ... Nooooo....
*raucous laughter from the both of us*
I guess I was flirting more than I thought. So at that point I was like "Okay, time to back off, I met this guy like less than 24 hours ago.. I don't want to be jumping all over the situation." So I stuck by Travis to avoid potential flirting with Ryan. We took the subway downtown (which was hilarious.. .there was a homeless woman there who, in an attempt to get spare change from people, was just complimenting them over and over again... she looked at Arielle and said something like "GOD DAYYUMMMM CHECK OUT THIS HOT SEXY MAMA OVER HERE!" And then she said something to Meghan along the lines of being a thick sexy mama who likes to eat chicken... only in NYC!) and got out to check out the Statue from a distance on the boardwalk or whatever.. you know that scene in Men in Black where Will Smith sits on a bench all night debating over whether or not he wants to join the MiB? That's where we were. Many many pictures were taken (I'll post a bunch at the end). We then went to Ground Zero, followed by Greenwich Village, followed by a diner right on the outskirts of Times Square because we wanted to take the boys to Times Square when it was night and all the ridiculousness of the fluorescent lights and ads and such would REALLY blow their minds.
PICTURE INTERLUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!
(sorry if you've seen these on Facebook already... but oh well, you can look at them all you want for FREE on here :] )
Travis & me :) at my house the night they got here
the Fisher sisters!!!! Side note - Arielle and I were talking tonight when she was doing the dishes and she was like "Yo, I feel for Meaghan Royce, that story about her sister and that guy... man, her sister must be a bitch!" Haha.
All of us in the subway station.. I think you can figure out who is who without a caption. ISN'T RYAN CUTE???!! He's wearing my hoodie... he wore it all weekend... since he didn't bring a coat... that's why the facebook album is titled the way it is ("you brought a suit but not a coat, can we talk about it?") because Arielle totally called him on it...
Downtown at Battery Park.. the Statue of Liberty is behind us, I wish we would have gotten it in the picture :/
After we took this picture at the diner, we both looked at it and I was like.. "This is cute." And Ryan's like "Yep, it is, we're pretty cute." Hahahaha.
We had a hilarious time at the diner. I sat next to Ryan :) and Arielle was busting out her typical hilarious awkwardness.... there was a situation with a pickle and the man at the table next to us.. I wrote the story out in picture captions on Facebook, I'll copy it here....
here's the story: we're at tick toc diner. arielle REALLY wants a pickle but doesn't want to order one. the guy at the table next to us, where travis' and arielle's eyes are directed, has received a huge pickle with his meal, and has moved it to the side indicating he will not eat it. arielle then proceeds to beg travis incessantly to ask the man for his pickle. meghan even offered him a $1.50 to complete the task.
.. in the end, arielle got her pickle and was VERY excited about it...
& meghan pays up. the end.
Maybe it's one of those "you had to be there" things, but you know how Arielle gets when she's being awkward and funny. It amazes me sometimes how WELL she fits in with my friends. Her and Travis got along SO well. The last time he came to visit, they hardly like.. even interacted because Travis and I had been like out of the house hanging out the whole time. He actually asked me at the airport this time around "So, does Arielle like, talk yet?" And I was like YOU JUST WAIT. It like.. warmed my heart to see them getting along so well. There was one point where Arielle like leaned behind Meghan to give him a goofy face, and Travis just goes to her, "YOU'RE WEIRD!" and we collapsed into laughter. So classic. I wish I could convey to you better just how awesome it was...
So after the diner the sun had pretty much gone down, which meant.. time for Times Square! We were within walking distance so we "hoofed it" (as the Oklahoma boys would say...) the few blocks down and as soon as we got there the guys' jaws just dropped. I loved it. We spent a few hours just wandering around Times Square, going in the random huge stores, taking it all in... eventually around 9 or so we hopped in a taxi and went to this place called Jekyll and Hyde, which is a hilarious "haunted" bar and grill.... well, this is where things start to get sloppy. We had like a half hour wait or so, so Meghan hit the bar (she's 22) and ordered herself a HUGE margarita.. that she got for free since it took the guy at the bar forever to make it.. that she proceeded to let me suck down about half of. Well, I hadn't eaten all day and it was really strong so the shit hit me immediately... we sat down and I was already feeling it. To make matters worse, Meghan & Ryan both ordered Long Island iced teas, and didn't get carded.... so I ordered one too. $9 huge motherfuckin cocktail (and after reading about you drinking in Vietnam and being drunk for like less than $5 I'm pretty jealous) with like 8 different liquors in it.. the three of us only had ONE and we were all feeling pretty buzzed after finishing them. Ryan sat across from me at the table and kept giving me smiles and just... flirting, but not very overtly.
After dinner it was late, probably like 11, and we had an 11:40 train to catch back to Stony Brook so we tried to hail a cab for like 20 minutes, finally got one, and we all piled in with 3 of us drunk and Arielle and Travis like heyyy guys.. we got to Penn Station, stopped into a convenience store to buy a 6 pack for the ride home, and RAN for the train and made it on.. too bad that the train got like HARDCORE delayed.
So the 5 of us are sitting in like a little cubby because they had seats that faced each other, and we were just fucking around, drinking, laughing, enjoying each other's company.. shit just felt like it had fallen so thoroughly into place and we were all having such a wonderful time. Ryan and I ended up sitting next to each other on the train and I don't know if it was a drunk thing or not, because I still haven't like.. actually talked to him about this. But he like... put his arm around me, on my shoulders, eventually doing the whole holding me from behind thing... there's a picture of him like kissing my cheek... I was definitely like.. uhhh.. what the hell is going on??!! We were really rowdy on the first train, the o
ne that went from Penn Station to Huntington, and then when we transfered onto the train that would take us back to StonyBrook station (which is 2 minutes from my house), we all kind of sat separately and chilled out. Ryan and I sat together and I was pretty intoxicated at this point in time, as was he, but I remember like... laying on his lap with his arms around me but I couldn't fucking tell you for the life of me what we talked about, if we talked at all.. OH ALCOHOL. It only gets better from here, don't you worry. There's still like a day and a half left to describe...When we got back to StonyBrook Arielle had to drive because the rest of us were pretty wasted. We got home and I had been telling the boys the night before that I'd make martinis for everyone that night because we had sucked down like more than 3/4 of a case of Bud Light the night before, and make martinis I did. They were pomegranate flavored and delicious, and I wish I remembered more of the course of the night from here on out. Meghan and Travis were sitting on one couch, Ryan and I on the other, Arielle on the floor.. I think we were watching Family Guy and being rowdy and quoting it and such? The usual. BUT THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET PIVOTAL. Since Ryan and I had been all snugglywuggly on the train, we were sitting pretty close on the couch, leaning on eachother and whatnot. And I remember this distinctly.. we were drinking out of Dixie cups because I didn't want to bring down my dad's good martini glasses and risk massive spillage, so I like held mine up to click glasses with him, and he clicked my glass... and kissed me. (I'm sure you knew that was coming.) And then we drank our drinks. And I just remember looking at him and smiling kind of coyly about it. After that.. oh man. We all decided it was time to try and sleep so we hit the lights and Travis was passed out on the couch, Meghan on the floor... but Adrienne and Ryan were not asleep, not by a long shot. I don't exactly remember just HOW long we made out for... but it was a long time. There was definitely some below-the-belt action going on as well, on behalf of both parties. Ualksjg;sldjgoew;ijgs.. Meaghan, he is just... too good looking. Like.. he's skinny, but not scrawny. He's got greatttt arms. And he's definitely at the top of the list for cutest boy I've hooked up with since Adam and I broke up. I was definitely stoked about it. And of course at one point as it has been with every other boy thus far he was like "Do you want to have sex?" and I was like "Do you have a condom?" "No..." "Then no... sorry..." I know at one point after I declined I rambled to him about how when Adam and I broke up I threw out all my condoms and birth control cause I was so upset about the breakup but he claims not to remember this..... so pretty much that night we just made out like crazy, played a little more than that..... can we say Adrienne for the win?
The next morning we all woke up SO late. Ryan and I had woken up a little earlier than everyone else so we were just kissing and being cute again...he told me that because I was drunk I kept asking him while we were making out, "Did you expect this to happen? Did you???" and he was like gently making fun of me for the whole situation and I was just like oh great.. I totally embarassed myself.. and he's like "No, no, I'm seriously just messing with you, I thought you... reacted very well under the circumstances." LOL. So we all woke up, got our shit together, Ryan and Meghan and I went to the grocery store to buy stuff for breakfast while Travis showered (Ryan made some comments about how my hair looked all "wild woman sexy" and Meghan was like "Hey guys, way to make out all night" and we just laughed...) and when we got home I found Travis sitting in the living room with my parents reading the paper with them. HILARIOUS. Ryan made breakfast for all of us while I showered and Meghan and Travis hung out and looked through my music library. We ate, I took Meghan home and the 3 of us set out again for another day in NYC, minus Arielle and Meghan.
We were SO tired from the night before so we all just relaxed bigtime on the train... Travis sat in the seat in front of Ryan and I and so the two of us just spent the entire trainride talking to each other, getting to know each other better... it was... quiet and reflective and it felt good to talk to this boy in person that I had definitely gotten to know VERY well on the physical level the night before. It was like.. the conversation I wished I could have had with Eric after him and I hooked up. We pretty much gave each other the run-down of our most recent exes and... lo and behold... our situations related VERY well to each other... except that everything I was saying to him about how I felt I had treated Adam, and why we broke up.. he was like "Wow, this sounds like it's coming right out of my exes mouth..." Yeah, I'm the bitch ex. And I said that to him. I was like "Wow, now you think I'm a total bitch now because I pretty much did the same thing to Adam that Stephanie did you to you" and.. I'll never forget this..... he leaned over, says "No.. you're good..." kisses me twice, and then kisses my nose.
And I seriously cannot go on for right now. It's almost 2AM. I have to be at work in 5 hours.
TO BE CONTINUED. Comment this if you can when you read it. I'll try finish the story tomorrow.
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!
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