I was back in Canyon, TX, and I was in the car with K.K. driving around the campus of a what appeared to be Canyon HIgh School. We were in her white Ford Taurus (not what she drives in real life) and the parking lot had a ton of pot holes, but we needed to get to a building in the back to meet our other friend. K.K. was wearing a neon blue polo with the CHS logo on it - she had been asked to fill in as tennis coach for a tournament that weekend and that was what was reqauired of coaches to wear. We got to the back building and walked through the halls; several teams were stretching in the hallways getting ready to play - not just tennis, but all sports.
When we arrived at the place we were supposed to meet our friend, it turned out that it was a small bar reserved for faculty of the school. That's where we met C.M. He told us to order him a drink then he went to the men's room, but he didn't tell us what he wanted. We waited and waited for the bartender to ask us what we wanted, and finally he came over. It was a hassle to order the drinks though because we were seated behind the row of men at the bar. K.K. and I were the only women in the place. I ordered us two beers and said that we had a third person with us but by the time the bartender brought us drinks, our friend should bw back and could order what he wanted then. From where we sat, I could see out into the hallway and there were a bunch of men milling around and going from room to room; I decided that I wanted to explore what was happening but as I was walking out of the bar, one ofthe men stopped me and wouldn't let me throug. exaperated, I told K.K. that we had to leave because this place obviously was not interested in having women around. So, we walked back through the hallway that we'd come in through, past some female soccer players who were lamenting the fact that they didn't get much playing time and didn't know what their roles were on the team. I stopped and told them that everyone played an important role on every team even if they didn't play; the girls looked at me skeptically but I told them that they should trust me because I had been in their position when I was in high school but I was a three-sport varsity athlete and it made me a better person to not always get what I thought I deserved. They seemed to take that in so K.K. and I kept walking out to the parking lot to her car.
We stopped to talk about her possible career change of becoming a tennis coach and I was supportive of her despite the fact that it would mean a lot of travel. I asked her if she thought should could continue to do he current job in addition to being a tennis coach but she explained to me that there just wasn't enough time in the day to do both. We continued to her car, got in, and tried to leave the parking lot, but there was an 18-wheeler that was causing some traffic to be blocked. Finally, we got to the traffic light at the edge of the high school campus and were stopped at a red light. I looked through the windshield up to the blue sky with just a few clouds and thought about how different it was to live in Texas; since I only was visiting and had to go back to New Jersey in a few days, I took some time to think about the pros and cons of living in each place but couldn't come up with a solid answer as to where I belonged in the world.
This next part involved a camera angle view of Elizabeth Shue and Patrick Swayze in their younger years, in a hotel lobby, trying to find a safe place but a public place to hook up. They were kissing and I morphed into Elizabeth Shue for a little bit and explained to Patrick Swayne - who had morphed into someone else that I know in real life, but can't quite place - how gorgeous I thought he was, then I morphed back out to the camera angle. They were holding hands and running through the lobby, then finally found the swimming pool. They jumped in and were holding each other and kissing; Elizabeth Shue explained how sexy Patrick Swayze's body felt against hers in the water. Then, they were running outside to the river that ran beside the hotel; somewhere, Elizabeth Shue had found a chain-link blanket and they put it on the banks and began hooking up on it. There were people swimming in the river but they didn't really notice that there were two people having sex on the banks.

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