Best Cousin Ever

I was trying to think about what I should be blogging about and I remembered the other night that I found my Junior HS yearbook, I went through it and it brought memories back ... some good and some not soo good, some funny and some that I'm going to share here!

One of my cousins just moved to NY and was fresh to the US.  I didn't hang out with Ria because she had her own set of friends, if I remember correctly they named their click the Nutty Buddies.  They were a different set of friends that I had and I was the "cool" one, so much has changed!  Even though we were in the same class, we kept our distance.

It was my final year in IS 73 and I think things were going pretty well.  Our homeroom was in the girls gym and we got to play basketball during homeroom and we were also the very few students in school that had a locker that we could keep out stuff in for the whole day.

This day came along where I opened my locker and I found a note fall out.  Not knowing what it was I picked it up with no expectation until I saw it.  My friends were around me when I picked it up and saw what I saw ... it was a white piece of paper with a lot of colors on it.  The colors coming from letters that were cut out of magazines and glued to the paper, yes you're right in picturing it like a ransom note.  That's exactly how it looked and when I first saw it without reading it I got a little scared, all these thoughts ran through my mind for the quick 2 or 3 seconds - did my family get kidnapped, am I going to be kidnapped, etc.  Then I read the letter, I can't remember exactly what it said but it was along the lines of I've been watching for you a while now and I like what I see.  See you soon, xoxo.  

The reaction of my friends were the "ooo's" and "ahhhh's" with some massaging my shoulders in the happiness that was felt amongst the guys that were around me.  

Into my bag the random love note went and we went to our next class.  The conversation for the next few hours was us trying to figure out who this girl was.  We went down the list of girls that it might be and the list of girls that I was hoping for.  

I found myself looking at this note a few times, looking for any clues on who it might be.  But no clues were left, it seemed that it was put together with the precision and the careful hands of an actual kidnapper.  

I even remember some girls who would be looking at me and this would peek my interests and wonder if that was the girl who left it in my locker.  We went through the gammit and tried to figure out who had access to the locker room in the girls gym that early in the morning.  

After all the detective work and all the speculation, the truth came out.  All that excitement, all that anticipation to meet that girl who I was going to fall in love with and live happily ever after came to a crashing hault when I found out that the person who put this all together was none other than my new cousin who had just arrived.  

Don't get it twisted, this isn't a story of cousinly love, but a horrible cruel joke!  Way to make a good first impression on your cousin who you're going to see everyday, geeze.  You don't know how fragile the heart of a 14 year old boy is until it's crushed by a practical joke that echo's through the rest of the class as they laugh when the punchline is you.  Tramatized from this experience?  Definitely!  So if you're out there reading this entry Ria, know that you could possibly be the one who is the cause of me not being married right now!  

That ransom love note could have set off a chain of events where I didn't want to talk to any girl because I didn't want to make a fool of myself.  

I joke, it was actually a really good trick that I did not see coming.  I do believe that I tried to get her back but was unsuccessful in trying.  Well I guess that means that I still have to try to get her back mmuuuhAhhaA.  I wish I had kept the random love note ... it would have been a great memory of one of the first few times my cousin tried to communicate with me!

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