So my mom comes home from work that day and tells me that Lynn, that's her co-worker's niece, was going to be staying in America for the second semester of her senior year of high school. I wasn't exactly excited about it, but I wasn't complaining either. I mean I'd met Lynn once or twice when we were younger, but I wasn't really sure how to react because I didn't really know her too well.
Anyways, the night Lynn got into town was a very boring and snowy January night, and even though she was going to be staying with her uncle and his family she was hanging out at my house for a few hours before she went to their house to get settled. Lynn was an odd looking one, from her constantly changing eyecolor (thank you color changing contacts) to the...odd way she did her hair. (she had two pigtails and one was obviously shorter than the other...it was weird)
Our conversations were awkward at first, neither of us really knew what to say or ask. So as the two of us sat awkwardly in my room staring in random directions I decided to go onto facebook and add Lynn. This is where Lynn surprised me for the first time, she told me she didn't have a facebook. When I asked her why she said it was because she thought it was a pointless website, so what did we spend the next 20 minutes doing? making Lynn a facebook lol.
After 20 minutes of playfully mocking eachother while making Lynn's facebook and editing mine, we started talking about friends, more specifically my friends. Lynn seemed amused by my stories of anime club and stories from my school. She told me that back home, school was really boring for her. The reason she had been sent out here to finish her senior year was that back home she had a serious boyfriend and she had been planning to drop out of high school early and go marry him. So her parents thought that they could stop that from happening if they separated her and her boyfriend by an ocean, and maybe a change in scenery wouldn't just change her opinion about finishing high school but it would also make her want to go to college, which she was dead set against.
Before I could say anything to that my mom called us downstairs because Lynn's uncle had gotten to the house and Lynn had to leave. As the weeks went by Lynn was doing fine at her new school academically but I was still her only friend here technically. Like I said, I'd only met Lynn a few times when we were children, but this Lynn the one who wasn't trying too hard to make friends here definitely wasn't the same Lynn I'd met so many years ago. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that I really wasn't the same Kim either.
I really admire Lynn, she was able to calmly talk me through a ton of things and she was blunt, she would never beat around the bush when explaining things to me. If I was wrong or I had done something stupid she would tell me right away. Her perfect cursive handwriting covers most of my senior year assignment notebook, taunting me and telling me to get over myself in certain situations, grow a backbone in others, and to just stop complaining.
Yes, in case you were wondering, Lynn is holding an airsoft gun to my head as I write this. But if it wasn't for Lynn (and Alex, Mary Kate, Eric, Devins, and a few of my other friends) I totally would have lost my mind this past summer.
You can learn alot from your friends, I'm glad I got a chance to reconnect with Lynn. For the record, she's still in America, but she's not in college and she's engaged to her boyfriend from the previous year. Looks like even a whole ocean couldn't change her that much. I'm glad. :3
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