Here it is the Story of my life, beginning at 16 years old. Maybe if I do enough of these, I might actually make my own book someday.

It was Friday. The day where all students have those thoughts of going home, hangin' with friends, play video games, or of going to sleep. But for me, and several friends of mine, today was a great day. A day like no other. I had planned with some friends to go to the annual Lilac Festival. The Lilac Festival to those of you who don't know, celebrates the blooming of the Lilac bushes in Highland Park, Rochester NY.

It was the end of school, and I met all my friends, Emily, Daniel, Nahoma, and David, and boarded my bus home. On the way to my house, Emily fell over and tried to grab the top of my head to prevent falling. Apparently, as her hand landed on my hair, it slipped and three of her fingers scratched my face. I will never forget that moment, cause I find it hilarious. Later on, Daniel and Nahoma had to leave at their selected stop in order to drop off their belongings at Nahoma's house. Meanwhile, Me, Emily, and David had gotten off the bus at my selected stop and took a break at my place. We sat down, relaxed, played some video games, and watched an awesome episode of Scrubs. I had received a call from Nahoma shortly after and we decided to walk up to the festival, which was conveniently not too far away. It took us a while when we arrived there to find each other, but we eventually did met up.

The entire group went up to the War Memorial area in the park to wait for a special friend. She had arrived ten minutes or so after we had arrived at the memorial, and we were really happy to see each other again. Her name was Maya, we've been friends since grade school, and I haven't seen her in two long years. After we had said "hi," reminisced about the good 'ol days, and realizing that my hair was past my shoulders, we split into two teams. One team consisted of Me, Emily, and Maya, while the other team was made up of David, Daniel, and Nahoma. After the creation of teams, the two groups went our separate ways.

Of course, since it's a festival, there was food, and we decided to eat. Firstly, we had a "Death By Chocolate" crepe. While I paid for the crepe and waited for it to finish, Emily and Maya went off to get some drinks. As we re-gathered at the Crepe booth and waited for our chocolate crepe, we happened to run into Joe, one of our other friends. He soon joined our party and the four of us share the crepe. However, Joe, decided to get a drink of his own. This made him unable to eat the majority of the crepe, thus leaving him with nothing(haha). Soon after, we decided to have some more food and ate pizza. We sat on the grass where no one was walking and socialized and ate. During our time eating, Emily was messing around with a lemonade cup, then all of a sudden, I felt a light splash of lemonade on my face. I think some of it got in my eye. Hahaha. After our laughs and finishing our good food, we started to head off to the reservoir on the highest hill on the opposite side of the park.

On our way there, we met another friend, Megan. She was listening to a guitarist playing some songs. When we bumped into her, Maya and Megan talked and reminisced about their times together. As they talked Joe and Emily went off not too far from Maya and Megan and messed around. I on the other hand was apparently doing nothing, so I waited for everyone to finish up their business. It was nice to see Megan again, but she was unable to join our party. We had bid her farewell, and continued our adventure to the reservoir. On our way, we met up with the other group, Daniel, David, and Nahoma. It seems that they bumped into Hannah G. For some strange reason, she had stolen David's shoe.....and hid it somewhere. Okaaay.....we had a small conversation, and headed off to find the missing shoe. Hannah had led us to a tree where she had said she put the shoe up there. Buuuuuut, she tricked us, and made us look stupid for a minute by revealing that David's shoe was in her purse(not a great place to put a shoe). During our "search" for the shoe, Joe and Emily somehow ended up in places unknown(in places unknown, I meant somewhere behind several trees and bushes we had passed behind us). After these series of events, Group two had left with Hannah. Joe and Emily eventually did come back with me and Maya, and headed to the reservoir.

Our original reason why we were heading to the reservoir was because they were selling "Buckets O' Fries." They were amazingly delicious. We bought some bottled lemonade and took a break after acquiring our prize. Soon after Joe had to leave the party. He had returned to his original party, and went off do tend to personal business of his own. Emily, me, and Maya were left. The three of us headed down back to the park area, and stopped by a small booth selling handmade accessories. We looked through the stuff, it had included finger puppets, chokers, necklaces, bracelets, and other stuffs. Maya had to to leave soon after. We bid farewell to Maya(I asked if the three of us could meet up again Sunday), and Emily and I were left. The two of us decided to head back to my house. On our way back, we had small conversations(I seriously need to improve on my conversations skills). We headed home, and took a break from our great adventure around the Festival. Emily said she had an hour or so to hang out until her mom comes to pick her up. We had fun playing Guitar Hero III and spent our time socializing(still needs to improve social skills). Our fun had ended as I waved Emily goodbye.

The day ended. As everything came together, Saturday comes closer by the minute. When the day ended, I was typing up my story for what happened earlier in the day, marking the beginning of the Story of my Life. And there I was, I typed "Here it is the Story of my life."

End of Chapter 1. 5/15/09