she was the collateral.

so i was studying at the coffee depot down town and there are three other people in the room.

so its 10:30 and tiff gets up and says, "i have to go home. mark take me home. i need to sleep."
and then they get into an argument because mark is also ashley's driver and she isn't ready to go yet. and the group paper is on tiff's computer and they have no way of printing out the file or something. they are real loud and annoying and they talk about flash drives and email accounts and burning cds and viruses. all this talking is real loud.

so i say, "hey i have a flash drive you can use to transfer the file." but thats not the answer because ashleys computer has a virus. blah blah blah. so mark asks if they can take it to their house and then bring it back to me. because tiff "had to go home right now!!" but ashley wasn't ready so she was going to stay at coffee depot and she would be the "collateral." his words not mine.

i really didn't care. like its just stuff. so i let the guy take my flash drive. part of me thought i wouldn't be getting it back.

and then for the next forty minutes i had awkward conversations with ashley. she is a double major in bio and art from ucr and she cusses so much. like non stop. i just haven't been around that in a long time. she talked alot but never asked any questions. it seemed like she just wanted someone to listen to her. "im collateral?" she said. "that sounds important. i have never been something important before."

i don't know. it was just sad. and i wanted to talk to her more. but i didn't. and then mark came back to pick her up and said thanks for the flash drive and gave it back to me.

i don't know what i was expecting but i thought maybe they would have left a word document on there with like a "thank you for your kindness. lets be friends and talk about jesus"document. but none of that happened. and i will probably never see tiff, ashley, and mark again. i didn't even introduce myself. i don't even know their names.

it was just a weird night at coffee depot.