FINALLY REUNITED WITH STRICKLAND
You don't understand how HAPPY I am, oh my God! I made sure to look really cute
It was so surreal to see him at Washington Square Park and hold him again! He didn't miss Tennessee at all and so he asked me everything about my summer XD We were with Kevin since it was Kevin's last day until he's off to Korea and it was wonderful!
We decide to grab a little something to eat and walk through these street markets and it was so much fun to walk and talk! We don't find anything suitable to eat so we turn a corner and start walking down that street. As we're getting near this pizza place, this old lady pops out of nowhere and calls out to us. She's wearing baggy clothes with flower patterns, has white/blondish hair, sandals, and a bag of toothbrushes in her pocket. She looked really strange.
She holds on to my arm and asks Strickland if he can see this newspaper box that's two blocks away. He looks and asks if she wants The Village Voice and she says yes. He's super polite and goes off to get it. Meanwhile, she asks me and Kevin what we study and we talk. She says, "I think your friend didn't find the newspaper and he's going somewhere else to get one." I look and Strickland's flying back and says, "They ran out of the Village Voice, but I got you the Epoch Times." Inside I think this is strange, but Strickland is so polite and takes her seriously. We talk and she tells us she's a playwright. She said that when she saw us walking down the street we looked like an interesting bunch ::kisaki::
She asks us if we want to go see the gardens in her building, and I'm thinking this is really odd, but we go ahead and escort her slowly to her building and people take pictures of us. My initial reaction in my head was "What are we doing?? What if she wants to kill us?" but Strickland hooks up his arm to hers and I go with the flow. We go inside the building and she leads us to these gardens and they're gorgeous!
She tells us about her life as a playwright, her childhood, her parents, and countless things and advice! She loves writing plays and told us about musicals from the past, musical composition, obscure plays, actors and I felt very special to listen to that. She thinks Strickland is "solid" and has everything going for him and that he "passed the test" because of the way he got her the newspaper, and I had this nerdy grin on my face. She grilled him whenever he was unsure of an answer, haha, and he'd whisper to me, "I'm so bad at words" when he made a mistake XD. I knew she was probably lonely and lived with no one and she said she had rehab next week.
Strickland and I escorted her inside the building again. She said over and over how pretty I am and stopped and looked into my eyes, saying, "Wow, look at the color of your eyes! They're so unique! Boys need to give you more compliments on them!" and I laughed XD We put her inside the elevator and went off for more adventuring...
I can't believe all of that happened and we talked for hours! I did not expect my day to go that way and I love it when that kind of thing happens ^____^ I'm just super happy and it was what I needed after this past week.