13 Reasons – Smaller Links In The Chain
I’ve Just Seen A Face
By: The Beatles
I’ve just seen a face
I can’t forget the time or place where we just met
she’s just the girl for me
and I want all the world to see we’ve met
Mm mm mm mm mm mm
Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
and I’d have never been aware
but as it is I’ll dream of her tonight
La la la la la la
Falling, yes I am falling
And she keeps calling
me back again
I have never known the like of this
I’ve been alone and I have missed things
and kept out of sight
for other girls were never quite like this
Da da da da da da
Falling, yes I am falling
And she keeps calling
me back again
Yeah, pa pa pa pa
Falling, yes I am falling
And she keeps calling
me back again
I’ve just seen a face
I can’t forget the time or place where we just met
she’s just the girl for me
and I want all the world to see we’ve met
Mm mm mm mm mm mm
Falling, yes I am falling
And she keeps calling
me back again
Falling, yes I am falling
And she keeps calling
me back again
Oh, falling, yes I am falling
And she keeps calling
me back again
(Just as a note: the songs I use either relate to what was going on at the time of what I’m writing, or they were a song significant to said time period. The song to the right was significant the summer I met Ryan because I felt it related to us meeting. Not to mention, I felt I certainly was "falling, yes I am falling" for him. Of course, I changed all the pronouns to ‘he’s’ and ‘his’ and ‘him.’ And from ‘girl’ to ‘guy.’)
Ryan is the first in a chain that led me to where I am. I never thought that when I got a crush on him when I was fourteen that it would lead to the feelings I have now. I also never thought that our friendship would last as long as it has. We had a lot of dumb fights over the years and one period where we almost did lose one another as friends.
Ryan’s name is going to pop up at random times throughout the rest of these entries, because, not in a negative way, but he’s helped shape who I’ve become.
He invited me to Youth Group and because I had a crush on him, I went. Easy way to see him once a week, I figured. And because I continued to go to Youth Group, I met a girl named Lori at the end of the summer. I’d gone to the Youth Group Star Wars meeting, (we went to the house of a girl in Youth Group, and at least some of us were watching New Hope, and the other two. Episode I and all weren’t coming out for another couple of years.) and started talking to Lori and she asked if I wanted to go to her house. So I did, and I actually ended up sleeping over there that night because there was no way my mom was gonna be able to find this place in the dark.
It was that night I found out Lori smoked. She’d gotten a cigarette from her uncle or some such and was smoking it in front of me, and asked if I wanted to try. Curiosity overcame me and I gave it a shot. The first two times, I didn’t inhale enough and nothing happened. So the third time, I really sucked in a breath and damn!!! my throat started burning! I raced off the bed and into the bathroom. Being that this was the first time I’d ever been in their bathroom, I had no idea where any dixie cups were and didn’t stop to look. My throat hurt that much. I just turned on the cold water and scooped it into my mouth with my hands.
After my throat stopped bruning and felt, more or less, back to normal, I went back to her room. But I’d also made a decision: never again. Never again was I gonna be stupid enough to try something like that.
Despite the fact she smoked, I stayed friends with Lori, cuz I thought she was a nice person and all. And she soon enough invited a friend of hers named Jess to come to Youth Group. I thought Jess was nice, too, and soon enough she and I exchanged phone numbers and would talk once in awhile. She also invited me to her birthday party on May 9th, 1998, the end of my sophomore year.
And now the chain becomes interesting. Because that party was where I met Mike for the first time.