Time of Exhaustion

It was just last week that I was overly tired. I had been to school everyday that week by 7:30 AM working on our marketing plan for FFA. There had not been a night that week that I had been asleep before 12:30. To add to the chaos of the week we had volleyball tournaments that Friday and Saturday and football playoffs Saturday to cheer for. On Friday, it was my birthday I turned eighteen.

          Friday night we were on our way back from Bozeman after cheering three games. Maureen, Lauren and I were talking about winter formal and who to ask. Maureen and Lauren were complaining about how when they are seniors there will not be a lot of good options for dates. They were coming up with plans to ask little freshmen.

          I started to fall asleep as they continued to scheme. They were both getting excited and saying how it will be legal for them because neither of them will be eighteen before winter formal their senior year. I pondered whether I could ask a freshman to winter formal.  I looked up at them seriously and asked, “Wait, you don’t have to “do” your date, do you?”