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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Character Study III - Lop

A night where things go down and the college life for a freshman is worth while. For the newcomer, Jayce endured the most outrageous thing he's done since his stay at UCLA. It was party wild and everyone loved his "off the sober" side. By noon the next day, Jayce never had such a great night. He looked around in his dorm, smelling the smell of booze in the morning. But it wasn't him who smelled like a bootlegger, it was his roommate, all wasted and such. Jayce looked around at his bedside. Books and books, notebooks, a battery-dead laptop, a lamplight, pens and pencils scattered around his bedside. "Huh, I was probably dreaming about the party life." He went to the bathroom mirror and glanced over his bearded face that defined his all nighter spirit. Finals is 10 days from now and one year of college is already stressing out the young, ambient man. "Man I need to take a break." All of a sudden his sister calls him up, later inviting him to stay at her house in Las Vegas for awhile. "You know what Ate (big sister in Tagalog), I'm coming over because I need your advice on a lot of college stuff and it's totally bumming me out, literally!" Jayce then began to pack all of his stuff, 3 days worth of necessities. Friends were needed for this trip and the only closest one he can find was his friend Susel. 

Susel accepted his request to come on the trip because she was also stressing out with school. The two packed their belongings and accouterments in Jayce's 2009 Yaris and ventured off under the 80 degree sun into the desert freeway. Like the Mojave wasn't a killer anyway, speeders on the drive were honking at the homies. "Man, I'm going with the flow of the traffic, you.... ugh simpletons, I have no patience for these people," Jayce said in justification. The Yaris began to speed up a little, or maybe a little more than the limit. "Haha, take that you... oh man." Looking at his blindside mirror, he sees flashing lights of blue and red and sirens going off. The car pulls off to the side of the freeway with the CHP cruiser following behind. Within the blue car, two hearts pulsify intensely. Jayce looks at Susel, who at once was cautious at going at first and is now petrified by the fact that  the officers are coming to the door. "Don't worry Susel, I saw this once on a Youtube video about Gabriel Iglesias's dealings with the police." The officer behind the Yaris begins to step out of his car. Jayce hurries to his phone, goes on Youtube and plays the COPS theme song "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle. He connects his phone into his car and bumps the stereo as loud as he can. "If only if I had speakers and subwoofers." Susel was cracking up, but he could see in her eyes that she was still worried about the situation. When the officer finally reached the window, Jayce lowered down the song. 

"What can I do for you Officeeerrrrr Buckshank?" "It's actually Officer Ozamataz Buckshank and a Stanford Grad for your information."  The officer had a slight smile on his face that he couldn't resist not giving off. "Well, do you know how fast you were going?" A smart alec as he could be and as independent as he was, Jayce responded with remark "Uhhhh not fast enough sir,"

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