The 20 stages of being unlucky enough to be stuck home for Spring Break, but lucky enough to suffer/celebrate with your best friend…
1) Excitement comes well before classes wind down, and yes, while there’s some regret as the group texts pour in 100 x a minute, you’re mostly filled with sheer exhilaration
2) You guys start to pick the places you want to go to
3) * online shops in between lectures *
4) Reality hits and you both realize neither of you have money…
5) …but the other members of the group actually saved. The many pizza related purchases were worth every bite.
6) “We are going to be stuck playing scrabble with my parents again this year.”
…Or worse, another family dinner party
7) Despite polite protests to push the other to agree to their back up college plans, you both know you aren’t spending a Spring Break apart
8) You make the best of it and plan all the things you can do at home on a budget
9) ….Crashing old high school friends’ parties? Visiting old teachers? Endless possibilities… *eye roll*
10) As Spring Break continues to creep up, you slowly have to break it to your college friends that you can’t join them. But home plans.
11) “Wait you aren’t going away for Spring Break?” “But like we’re going crazy in Mexico.”
12) Yeah, you’re a little jelly your friends are packing their bathing suits and bottles of Malibu…
… and the endless instagrams, tweets, and facebook posts
13) But then you realize you have a reunion to attend, and pack faster than Dorothy to Oz
14) Yes it is hard to part with your college friends because a) you’ll miss them dearly and b) they get to do body shots off of half naked Brazilian men
15) Yeah sure, the incredibly hot kid who sits across from you in class is splashing around with some blondes, but you have Ben and Jerry to make out with.
16) Your older siblings, who can’t go away because of adult responsibilities, reiterate how you both are the biggest nerds on the planet
17) With a groan you both reluctantly pull yourselves off the couch and attempt to go out with the kids from your town
18) …But you happily veto all plan options and whip out the sweatpants
19) Sippin on some wine and making duck bills out of pringles, you laugh together at the snapchats of people’s sunburns, pretending you certainly would rather be at home than Daytona beach *clinks pringles* You don’t even like flying.
20) Then, in between episodes of One Tree Hill, you two vow to put every upcoming penny towards next year’s spring break vacation together
Wherever Spring Break is spent, you know you both couldn’t do it apart—home is where the (booze, oreos, and) heart is.