(Super Seniors)
“Marc…”, I whispered. “...watch the stairs!”
“Hurry up!”, he whispered with laughter.
Rachel, Jen, and myself got in a line. The mission? To run down our school hallway as fast as humanly possible, one after the other, with only a 5 seconds between each of our take offs. Each of us having to launch ourselves like superman on to the couch at the end of the hall and roll off onto the floor before the other person did the same merely seconds later. This may or may not have resulted in injury on occasion, but worth every bruise!
(And we have no clue how the holes behind the couch got there....)
“Oh, my god, you guys are gonna get us into SO much trouble!”, Marc would say nervously EVERY time we did this. (And we did this a lot). Don’t let him fool you though; eventually he abandoned his watch post position and joined in the fun as well!
The game was Drop and Roll. A very mature and not at all ridiculous activity, us four SENIORS in highschool would play when the teachers would be away with the other students at lunch time in our small private Christian school.
Aside from that, we did very few silly things. We were very respectable, apart from that.
Okay, okay...maybe we would sneak into the teacher's lounge and drink coffee and watch tv, or drive to the taco bell 30 minutes away the the middle of our school day, or….or maybe I shouldn’t put everything we did in a blog (can they revoke your diploma over a decade later??? lol) What? Come on, there were worse things we could have been doing!
That was one of my favorite years...my senior year. So many memories...so many moments that have carved themselves into my heart and soul for eternity. Things that no one can ever erase or take away from me...from us. Things that will always belong to the four of us, that no one else will ever know or understand. No one.
Myself, Rachel Levick, Jen Braddock, and Marc Bermudez. We were the self proclaimed Super Seniors...and man, did we have the time of our lives that year! Aside from our at school shenanigans, we had out of school ‘Senior Wednesdays’....filling our nights with laughter, and developing bonds that have lasted a lifetime.
We drove our teachers crazy, and I’m sure they were ready for us to graduate and stop torturing them! But I’m so grateful for that little private school/church ‘in the middle of nowhere’, N.J. It brought me these 3 mischievous, hilarious, 1000% genuine people into my life and heart, and I am forever changed because of it.
Rachel’s goodness, silliness, and unconditionally unwavering support and loyalty to me, has created a standard by which I demand to hold myself to when offering my friendship to other people. I don’t have any chapter in the book of my life that hasn’t included her, quite literally from birth. And I don’t intend to write any without her.
Jen came into my life unexpectedly in high school. But we gravitated to each other like a magnet. I think the moment she opened her sassy mouth and I heard the sarcasm spill out I knew….I knew I liked that crazy girl. I knew we were meant to be “us”....I knew she was going to be essential to my story somehow. And I was right. So right.
Marc came into my story broken. Broken, but stronger than almost anyone I know. He had suffered personal losses at such a young age, but showed extreme courage and kindness through his character, that is never to be discredited him. He was, and still is, one of the best men I know. He needed us three girls...and we needed him.
And so, our group was created. We just fell together, the four of us, like a perfectly beautiful mess that made sense to only us...but we were the only ones that ever needed to understand.
