I have a friend who happens to be a faithful reader of this blog and who sometimes gives me shit for not thinking that she's "cool enough" to have a nickname and make it into the stories I post. I have pondered this for some time now, and just recently have discovered WHY. We all have the same group of friends just made up of different people. In otherwords, every circle of friends has the same generic make up. There's always a moocher, a drama king/queen (or both!), the successful one, the quiet one, the rowdy one, you catch my drift.
This particular friend is one that I consider the "Successful One" (which is NOT how she'll be referred to from here on out, but I get a little ahead of myself). She is, like me, in her mid 30's, but UNLIKE me, she has a fulltime job, owns her own home, and is basically just doing well for herself. She's brilliant and funny and cute. She's also, I'm pretty sure, a bit of a closet kind of freak. Now, before you go jumping to conclusions that her closets are riddled with all kinds of deviant contraptions and she goes out at night in places no one knows about and does all kinds of freaky things with freaky people, that's not what I mean. What I mean is, like all of us she has her own Freak Flag, but UNLIKE SOME of us, she only lets it fly at certain times. Therefore I shall dub thee, "Room 714". (How many of you will catch this? hmmmmm)
I have another friend who also has been absent from these pages. JC (I call him this because I think he reminds me a bit of Jim Carrey sometimes) has been a friend of mine since high school, well actually I've pretty much known him my whole life. Great guy. He's the friend you have that outwardly never appears to have changed. I left my hometown for almost 10 years. I come back and good ol' JC is still good ol' JC. He's smart as a whip but you'd never guess it unless you know him. He also happens to let his Freak Flag fly. Often. Publicly. Without shame. Without regret. God I love that guy!
Can you see where I'm going with this yet? C'mon...
Rm 714 and JC have just made their coupling official. And while I'm extremely happy for both of them, I will be the first to admit that no, I did NOT see that coming. Rm 714 tried half heartedly to keep it a little hush hush I think, but like I told her, she's dating a Townie now and her business is now town business.
714, I know you're going to read this, and you'll know you're you and you'll probably blush just a little bit but know that I think it's great!
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