Chem Lab

Theo - friend at SC
Sean - backpacking friend
Cory - Sean's Friend
Shaney - high school friend
Court - weird kid I knew in high school

I was in a new Chemistry lab. I got to the lab and everyone was starting the first assignment. I had left my backpack in another part of the building. I ran back along a bunch of corridors to find it. When I finally got it and got back to the classroom I was really behind in the lab. The teacher looked like Cory and she was really strict. She yelled at me and told me I couldn't do the lab anymore. I tried to negotiate with her to see if there was any way I could make it up. She eventually agreed to let me do the lab another day.
I came back on another day to do the lab and Theo showed up in the class. He sat down next to me and was talking to me and being really obnoxious as the teacher was talking. I asked him a few times to shut up and was getting really worried. Eventually the teacher got really mad at Theo and kicked us both out of the lab. I was really upset with Theo and scared I would fail the class.
Sean was in the lab as well and said he would help me with it. For some reason we had to go to Point Reyes to work on it. I suggested that we ride our bikes there. Sean pointed out that it was really far away. At first I decided I didn't care, but then I changed my mind so we rode a bus there.
I was on a beach with a bunch of people. The people eventually left and I was just sitting with Shaney and Sean on some rocks. We were talking about people we knew in high school. Sean talked about Court and how weird he was. I said it was really strange that Sean knew Court. We started climbing around on these rocks by the water. Shaney jumped off of them onto the sand. It was a really long drop and I was worried she had hurt herself. She seemed to be alright, but I wasn't going to do it too. I climbed down off the rocks really slowly. As I was climbing I felt really afraid that I might fall. I got down and the water was coming right up to our feet and we were stuck in front of the rocks. Shaney and I decided to just swim. At first the swimming was fun, but then the current started to get really strong and we were getting pulled further and further out into the ocean. Eventually we realized that we were stuck out there. I told myself to just calm down and slowly swim back toward shore. I wondered if Sean would save me.

"In Retrospect": I went backpacking again this weekend, and the last backpacking trip I took was in Point Reyes. And I didn't actually go to high school with Sean, but he really reminds me of my friend Ryan that I did go to high school with.