Drive & Die

I had my fair share of near death experiences. You know the usual drinking to much or falling because I was drinking to much. There is one experience that I can NEVER get out of my head. And it all starts with one of my best friends aka my sister Michaela. Now Michaela is everything. She inspires me daily to be who I want to be. I have always thought that. Anytime Michaela and I would get together we always knew something would go down. It just happens. Our dads were best friends so it was fate and adoption papers that brought us together. I had just learned to drive. I got my license, after the second try. Cool, I know. Well, we were in Bonner Springs, KS & if you are not familiar with that place... good. It's a mixture of country, midwest, and ghetto. Not the good ghetto the wannabe ghetto. That night her mom and my mom were drinking so we knew we could get away with something. We were bored and as you guys might know, telling any parent you're bored is the easiest way to annoy them. We asked if we would go to Kohl's because we were "bored" and wanted to try on clothes. Of course, it worked. My mom let us take her car to Kohl's which was a 10 minute drive. Neither one of us had a phone. Just Ipods. So we Googled the address and went on our way. Now the Ipod doesn't update your location while driving because it's a damn Ipod and we got lost. We come up a hill and across the highway was Kohl's. Michaela tells me to take a left turn at a stop light to go around the highway to Kohl's. I turn left and next thing you know we see headlights upon headlights. Now being a new driver and all, I panicked. I peed. I screamed. Michaela screamed. I bet the person in the other car screamed. We are just driving onto the highway but the opposite way. Shit. I pull over after figuring out how to pull over. We look at each other and laughed. What else can you do when you cheat death but laugh? Not today devil. We turned around and still went to Kohl's. On our way home that night we agree to never tell our parents because our mothers were dramatic and we would have be grounded. We still laugh about this story to this day because after seeing how our lives turn out, going onto a highway sounds better than some of the other things in life we've been through. I ended up telling my mom once I moved out of the house because I didn't want to be grounded.