The Future Of Us

In English 12, we were assigned to a find a book to read. I chose the book The Future Of Us. The main characters are Emma and Josh. The book takes place during the early nineties before computers or Facebook were popular. In the book, Emma receives a computer from her father as a guilt gift. Josh, who has been Emma's best friend for years, but distanced himself from her, comes back into her life and gives her a CD-ROM after hearing she received a computer. After taking the CD-ROM, Emma stumbles upon a future Facebook profile of herself. Emma became very scared and curious. She had no idea what she stumbled upon. As the book goes on and as she scrolls down on the profile, she realizes that her future self is absolutely miserable. Josh, being a good friend that he is, tries to help her and tries to convince her that this is all just some joke. But later, she informs him that she isn't the only one with a profile; he also has a profile.

And Then the Rain.

It was just like fate,

Finding ourselves

caught in the rain 

with nowhere to go

but under a tree 

to wait it out.

I'll never forget 

the way the rain ran

in tiny rivulets

down the side of your face

past your temples,

in ways that made me wish 

it was my fingers instead.

You were laughing 

like you always do,

a grin across your face

as you swore at the weather 

and shook it off your arms. 

And then quite suddenly 

we were seeing each other

and for the first time

for both of us

we stood speechless.