--an adventure! written by `ron`
(my point of view of what happened earlier today)

i woke up at around 5:30am. sent a ym message to stephanie.

took a shower, and by 6:15am i was ready to leave.

told my parents that i'm going to cerritos college.

i went to the norwalk/sta. fe springs train station and just chilled there.

stephanie called me and asked where i'm at. i wanted to surprise her so i made a white lie, i told her that i'm in school for my enrollment. she asked me to go to the station so we could see each other.

i then told her that i'm already in imperial and studebaker. then i laughed, i just couldn't hold a lie. i told her that i'm already in the parking lot of the train station.

she got there around 6.30am and we chatted while she bought her roundtrip train ticket. we stayed for awhile until 6:45am when the train got there.

we bade our goodbyes with hugs and kisses. the train left, and i started to head to cerritos college.

at around 6.52am while driving down imperial towards norwalk, her mom called. her mom said, "ron, stephanie forgot her purse at the station," hearing that i started to panic and asked her "what should i do?" she continued: "can you go back to the station and look for the bag, stephanie said she'll call you." we hang up and i made a u-turn.

rushing to the station, i desperately searched for a parking, i found one on the second level, kinda far but still good. i ran with everything i got, skipping 4 or 5 steps on the stairs going down the parking. i continued running up the pedestrian over-cross and climb the stairs by skipping 3 or 4 steps up. and basically jumped the stairs going down. i headed to the first place i could think of--the ledge we last sat on. i saw her bag by the plants and took it. i went back to my car and waited. at around 7:08am stephanie called, also panicking, told me to wait for her at the station.

at around 7:12am, she called again, talking furiously out of panic, we agreed that i go to union station instead of her going back and forth.

i ran back from the parking lot to the station, seeing that the train was already there, i ran harder, holding her purse by my right hand. i jumped the parking stairs, and i climbed the over cross again and then jumped down. i felt people looking at me, but fuck them, i don't care.

i sat down in the train, out of breath, as i waited for the train to get to the union.

at around 7.48am, i arrived at the union station, i walked with the red bag along the terminal, trying to look for stephanie.

at around 7:52am, we saw each other. we ran towards each other and hugged, she saying thank you and i saying it's nothing.

we stayed for awhile, until the train announced boarding. i guess it's time for me to go back. again, we bade our goodbyes and we started to head in different directions. the train left at exactly 8:00am. feeling bored, i asked somebody on the train who was reading the daily paper if i could borrow the classifieds.

i searched for a job, and then it hit me, what was i going to do after seeing stephanie? oh fuck, my enrollment. i panicked again, tried calling the house for my brother john (a bad choice, the dude's still sleeping). i called wendell, also a bad choice but found the school number anyway.

i called the school and was able to pay by phone. woohoo, i paid on time. now i'm enrolled with parking. weehee.

i tried to chill by feeding my boredom by trying to estimate and calculate the speed of the train (i think it was around 75mph).

i called linda, and asked her if she could tell my supervisor lucy what happened and she did.

i relaxed a bit more in the train, and told myself maybe i should sleep. oh no can't do that, i might be waking up in oceanside and not norwalk, no no no no no.

at 8:13am stephanie called, she's on her last bus ride to her work. i got to the station at around 8.19am and started to leave for anaheim-where i work.

good thing traffic was pretty nice to me, i got to the office at around 8:46am, not bad... not bad at all.

heehee

Posted by Ron Valiente