Music: Someone Like You - Piano Cover
1. Early September and leaves are just starting to turn colors. Company of good friends and the curiosity of you sitting right next to me. The sun set and temperatures dropped. We were forced to stand in the parking lot. Your plaid flannel around my shoulders. You looked like you were freezing.
2. Middle of March, south of Colorado. Dust under our feet and rocks all around us. It snowed that night, with only one sleeping bag and a fourth of a handle of tequila to keep us warm. Head lamps in the dark and a deck of cards, maybe some quarters, if I remember it right. We played horse races with the cards and fell asleep in each other's arms.
3. Finals week in December. I'm stressed, trying to memorize French verbs and figure out their conjugations. My thoughts wander to you in between and you show up at my door, arms wrapped entirely around me. Barely coherent, you reeked of beer. I stayed up all night watching you murmur in your sleep.
4. Middle of summer in July. Breckenridge is beautiful. It's about 7 in the evening and the sun dips low behind the mountains of your house. You dragged the row boat and I sat across from you thinking how this cannot be real at all. I was looking at the boy I fell in love with.
5. One random weekend of the school year. I had never heard of Everclear and you promised that I would have to try it. What a mess.
6. Riding the bus home and walking to your apartment instead of mine to watch Lucky. Waiting for you to come home, eat cereal and Oreos as lunch and then watching tv all day with that little guy. How does something as simple as that stick in your mind?
7. Waking up to you, 14 hours ahead of time. Drowsy from sleep and you tired from work. Talking to Zebra through a camera. Showing each other our kitties.
8. You teaching me how to tie a tie. You always had a little bit of your tongue out and then would smack your lips every time a new step was involved.
9. Making chicken dinners with mayo. Making jambalaya. Making chinese dinners. Burning your bagel. Making you all of my roommates hot chocolate.
10. Missing you, every day in between all the above.
Memories are the only things I have left of you.
