Californication.
Did you ever get the feeling you didn’t belong somewhere, even when you’ve spent your whole life living there? Like, you went away and came back again, only to find that you’re missing something? Yeah, that’s how I feel right now…
As most of you are probably aware, I’ve just come back from what can only be described as the best damn time of my life. I’m not just talking about one of those really good holidays that you hear about from friends, but never actually seem to have yourself - I’m talking about a week spent in Heaven. Arcadia, California - home to this young lady:
Her name is Jessica, and she’s aaaaaaall mine.
In the weeks leading up to this trip, I had almost convinced myself not to go. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I was scared; see, it’s not easy meeting someone you love for the first time, no matter how often you tell yourself, “It’ll be alright…". This was further compounded by the fact that Jess was under explicit instructions from “someone” to tell her parents. Honestly, I was a little annoyed at first that she’d put herself in such a position where everything could quite easily go very, very wrong for us.
Nevertheless, she told them and, in a drastic break from tradition, they actually allowed us to see each other and even went so far as to take me to dinner. More on that later…
Anyway, the long and short of it is that we weren’t allowed to see each other outside of their supervision and even then we weren’t allowed to touch each other. It really was a bizarre arrangement, and made me wonder how couples cope during prison visits. Naturally this resulted in us sneaking quick kisses and such behind the parental units’ collective backs. It was humourous, if not a little trying at times. Honestly, I felt like a teenager again, and I’m glad to say that it didn’t bother me in the slightest. It felt altogether more naughty and mischievous - as did the meetings we set up that her parents didn’t know about… So, here’s how the fairytale turned out, day by day:
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