Bittersweet.

Last night was amazing, and I'm sorry that not everyone got to experience it.
I'm on such a high right now though and I want to share it, in hopes that no one gets upset or offended that they didn't get invited.
It was a night for the "Nerd-Herd" to get together one last time before we all leave. Jake leaves for college tomorrow :/. One word to sum it up: bittersweet. I haven't had a great night like that since the float trip and I just don't want this to be over.

The plan was to have a bonfire, and then sleep under the stars. Well, we never got a fire started because Daniel doesn't know what he's doing. ;]. Jake decides that we all need to share our favorite high school memory. This is the start of a night that I will never forget. Each one of us went around sharing our favorite memories and sharing laughter.
All of a sudden Jake says, "We should go geo-cashing!" It's about 10 at this point. So we all piled into the bed of Daniel's truck and drove down Grange Hall Road. Highly Illegal- So much fun. All of a sudden we realize we're on a highway! We all duck as we see a car coming up behind us and laugh until we can't breathe and then get back on the country roads. We never made it to the geo cash site because it was going to take too long to get there and we would've had to take the highway.

We get back to Derek's land and they all decide that we should go to Snake Road. Snake Road= Haunted. There's all sorts of legends about this road and it's really tempting for teenagers to go mess around out there. The story goes: you go out to the old boarded up church and knock on the door, then to the cemetery and start yelling at kids to quit playing in the cemetery, and then go to the bridge and put your car in neutral. The kids are supposed to push your car across the bridge.
Remember, I am so easily scared and I didn't like this one bit.

We get out to the old boarded up church and Derek and Russell get out of the car just to talk in the parking lot. A car drives by and the driver yells out the window and says, "Get the f*** out of there you motherf***ers!" Instead of just leaving Russel wants to know why they really want us to leave and goes to knock on the door. Then all of a sudden Derek says, listen. I'm assuming he heard people talking and then he looks across the field and there are people standing there. We all jumped in our cars and peeled out. Meanwhile, all this is happening, I'm in the back hatch of kristen's car curled up into a ball almost in tears.
Instead of just leaving once again they go to the cemetery. Nobody would stay in the car with me and there was no way that I was going to stay there by myself. I ran out there and ended up tripping and tackling Jennifer, haha. Jake found it disrespectful to be messing around in a cemetery at night and so He, Melanie, Kristen, Jennifer, and I go back to Kristen's car. Kristen gets out and leaves the door hanging open and all of a sudden Melanie says, "Oh my gosh.. what is out there" and starts freaking out. My first initial reaction, and I don't know why, was to jump OVER the back of the passenger seat and just flop onto the ground in the back seat. They all start laughing and I soon realize that Melanie just really wanted to scare me.

We left after the other boys got back from "exploring". We finally got back to Derek's land for good and we got out our sleeping bags and laid under the stars. Until 4 a.m. From midnight until 4 in the morning we just talked and laughed until we cried.
Melanie and I woke up at 5:30 to relieve ourselves and then we couldn't fall back asleep after that.

During the night, I had a conversation with Jake and he was talking about how sad it was to leave. We all hadn't been able to hang out together since the float trip in July and it was beginning to seem like a distant memory. Then we all got together again last night and now it's so fresh that it hurts to leave it all behind.
I cried for the first time about leaving this morning with my mom.
I was thinking about how badly I'm going to miss all of them.
I was thinking about the phone call with Josie yesterday. She said, "Man, I'm going to miss you".

I'm going to miss this.
I can't believe it's coming to an end. Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely excited to start college, but starting this means ending that and I don't want to give it up yet.