A Very Crappy Christmas

Erin - friend at SC

I was staying with Erin in Los Angeles. Her house was in a commercial district, and for some reason all the parking spaces said "car pool" in them. I parked my car and went inside to meet her family.
I was on vacation with my Dad, step-mom, and my sisters. We were at a giant man-made system of lakes and waterfalls. For some reason we were having trouble leaving. We had lost our passports or something so we were being detained.
It was Christmas time and I had started two youth groups for younger girls. I was in my old neighborhood trying to recruit girls to be in them. There was one girl in particular that I couldn't convince to join. She kept wavering back and forth on her decision so I decided to work extra hard on convincing her. The last thing I did was wrap her a gift that had the group's uniform inside of it. When I went to give it to her I brought all of the girls who had already joined. She opened it and even after all of the other girls hassled her for a while she still declined.
I was really pissed about the whole thing and I went home and laid down on top of a giant Christmas present. I was starting to feel really sleepy and was dozing off but then a girl from my biology class came up to me and asked if she could copy my notes. I said sure, and we talked as she copied them. There was a party going on in the house, and so there were a bunch of people walking around talking and having a good time. This didn't really suit my mood very well, and then to make things worse the girl who wouldn't join the group called. The man who answered the phone was very happy to hear from her and so he was acting very friendly and excited on the phone. I told him "don't encourage her".