True love

There once was this couple that I knew who were literally meant to be, but apparently they didn't really know it. They had met three years ago at a gas station in a small little town. This is the beginning of there story.

Jack, the guys name, had just stopped to fuel up his car but to find out he had no money left in his wallet for gas. He was stranded. Julia though was the kind of person who would help any stranger no matter how strange they looked. She had actually lived in the little town the hate met on this fateful day. She ran to the gas station for a gallon of milk, but not for her life to be turned upside down.

She saw Jack sitting there and got curious because he wasn't really doing anything. So when she had went to the cashier who she knew well she asked, "Um Jeremy, what is this man outside doing here?"

Jeremy was an older man and responded in his wheezy voice, "Oh he is basically stranded here because he has no gas and no money. No one will lend him some money because he lives about three hours away and he needs gas to get there. Thats what he told me anyway." Jeremy coughed a couple times into his handkerchief, 40 years of smoking didn't do him any good. "I told him he could stay here as long as he needed to."

Julia seemed interested in the man, intrigued really at the fact that he didn't have any money. I mean who leaves home to go three hours without at least $20 bucks just in case. "Doesn't he want to call someone to come pick him up or something?" she asked, her curiosity mounting.

"He said he has no one to call," replied Jeremy.

"See ya later Jer," said Julia waving leaving the building, milk in hand. She headed toward Jack, but of course she didn't know who he was at the moment. "HEY, you whats you name?" she yelled at Jack pointing to him with her free hand.

Jack looked around wondering if this beautiful woman walking out of the gas station was talking to him. "Um me?" he replied as she got closer.

"Yeah you, I heard you were in some trouble?" she asked setting her milk down on the bench where he was sitting.

All Jack could think was that he had never seen anything more beautiful in his life. "Um yeah, outta gas, and outta money," he said trying not to stare.

"Well I was just thinking about going on a road trip if you'd wanna join me so you can get your money?" she offered the man. She really wasn't but the moment she had load eyes on this man something inside her changed. "Something about him just makes me wonder," she thought to herself. "Where abouts you from?"

Jack could not believe what this women was offering. Who would be willing to help out a complete stranger, much less drive him to his home and back? "There is no way I could ask you to do that. I live about three hours north from here," Jack said looking at her.

"Well I am willing to give you a lift there and back so you can get some money for gas, if you want to? I been looking for a reason to get out of town anyways," she had said. She had now looked at him, really looked at him, and noticed that he was a very charming looking guy.

"I am willing to take you up on that offer ma'am if you tell me two things: your name and why you would help a complete stranger that you have never met before? I mean what if I am a crazy person?" asked Jack.

"Well I would have to respond to those questions with this," said Julia as she sat down on the bench next to Jack. "I asked for your name first so until you answer my question you won't be getting any answers from me," Julia replied in a kind of joking sassy way.

Jack chuckled. He knew he was already starting to like this girl. "Ha well my name is Jack Hilmen," he said holding out his hand, "nice to meet you."

She took his hand and shook it. She noticed he had rough hands, but yet they had a sense of warmth when they touched her skin. "Well Jack, now to answer your questions, my name is Julia Brewin. Second I would hope your not a crazy person because you seem to be a good man to who I would like to learn more about on a quest to locate you some money," she finished jokingly.

They both laughed. Jack realized he really did like this woman even though they just met. She was cute and funny. He had been thinking though the same thing she was, "He would like to learn more about her also." So he had accepted her offer, within ten minutes they were out on the open highway talking with each other. They had learned that they had things in common, some things not in common but that is the way with everyone. She was adventurous, he was a quite person who liked order.

By the end of the car ride there they had realized that they wanted more than just this casual acquaintance. They shared a kiss, and that was when they knew they wanted to be together. They never came home that day when they could have. Julia had spent a whole weekend with Jack at his home where they learned more about each other than they ever could have imagined. If Julia wouldn't have noticed him at the gas station none of this would have never happened. Jack was grateful for the fact of his car running out of gas at that town because if it wouldn't have he never would have met his true love.

He knew that by the end of there first time together that he really truly loved her, and Julia realized it too they just never told each other until later. They both had known though that they were meant to be.

What they didn't know waking up on that morning they met was that there life could be flipped upside down by one person. One person who made them so incredibly happy. When they left each other that Monday morning at the gas station, they had promised to continue to see each other every singe weekend.   One thing they didn't and did know was this weekend had and would completely change there lives . . . forever.

To be continued . . . 


This has been a fictional story by Noah Mark Bitney. 

Change, it happens

Remember being a kid? Remember all the dream you had, or when your imagination just wandered free and you didn't give a shit about what anybody thought? You just did what you loved right? Things change though. Imagine as a kid caring about a car payment or what kind of cell phone plan you need. Weird right? No kid has any of those worries in there life, well at least for a little while until things change again. Change is a natural way of life. It is like death, it is inevitable. 

The biggest change that you would go through in life from the beginning is graduating High School. All your life your parents have had control over you, you have had to go to school and do well to pass with decent grades, and you didn't know what was out there waiting for you. As soon as you turn 18 and graduate from High School though all of that changes. You don't have to continue on with schooling, you don't have to live with your parents anymore, you need a job, and you need to figure out what you think you purpose in life is. Your whole life changes after graduating from High School. You need to find out what it is that you want to do with you life. 

For some it would be not continuing on with your education, and just finding a job without a college degree. For some that will work, some people with just a High School Diploma do really REALLY well. Other though continue on with there education to become a doctor, writer, director, marine biologist, engineer, teacher, chemist, and well you get the point. 

Now what about getting married and having kids? You never think about that as reality as a kid. Sure little girls plan there wedding, but you actually never REALLY think about one day actually having to get married. As a kid you just go with your imagination. You played in the sandbox, or at the park pretending to be superhero's. Not thinking that one day you could potentially be playing a superhero in a movie, or hauling sand in trucks for some company. 

There is one thing though that you never actually put thought into until you are older. Have you ever honestly ever thought about death as a little kid? Have you ever thought about how in fact one day you aren't going to be existent on this world? One day you will die, but the world will continue to live on. It is the ultimate inevitable. You can't avoid it no matter how much you try. It is a scary thing to think about because you just don't think about it but it is the truth. One day in the (hopefully) distant future your heart won't be beating on this world any longer. 

One thing to think about though is not death, but change and how it comes in all forms of your life. Change is as inevitable as death, in the fact that there is really no control over it. Look how much the world of technology has changed in the past 10 years? Look how much you have changed in 10 years? Take a look outside or at your local town. How much of it has changed in 10 years? Everything changes as time goes on. You cannot avoid it. 

As a student who is about to graduate from High School, I have started to become accustom to change. With my parents coming into quite a bit of money, to them changing the place where I grew up. Change has become quite natural in my life. I used to have to work everyday milking cows, now I go to work at a trucking company, and have a car payment to make every month. Just 10 years about I was eight years old and probably didn't have a care in the world. Now I have 10,000 cares in the world from my girlfriend to my amazing friends at school. 

So just get used to change because IT does happen, and there is nothing you can do about it.