Surprise!

Since we had such a late night, and I didn't have to work, I was hoping to sleep in a few hours.  However I was woken up around nine O'clock by Dustin.  Will was already sitting across from me looking as tired as I was and Dustin was walking around quickly apparently trying to clean the house up a bit.

"My mom, Grandma and little brother are going to be here any second." Dustin told me.

"Don't they live in Arkansas?" I said

"yeah, but they just happen to be in town today and wanted to stop by.  I just thought I would warn you."

I looked over at Will who smiled and shook his head. "They are REALLY spiritual people. Dustin's mom has a way of looking at you in the eyes and making you feel like the biggest lump of shit in the world." he said

Almost right after the words left his mouth I saw them coming up the driveway and around to the stairs.  I hadn't even looked at myself in the mirror, but I could already tell i looked like shit.  Not to mention the fact that I hadn't brushed my teeth yet, or even the night before.

They walked into the house without knocking, holding a few bright yellow pots and pans for Dustin.  Dustin came out and they covered him with hugs and kisses before taking a look at Will or I.  They had known Will already since Dustin and him had been friends for like a billion years, so Dustin introduced them to me.  They seemed to keep a safe distance as they said hello, which I was perfectly fine with. They looked at me as if I were some nasty hooker they picked off the street, and I quickly discovered what Will had been talking about.

After starring at me for a few seconds, as if trying to figure me out, they started chitchatting with the boys about how they'd been.  Will had been struggling with some sort of flu or something for about two weeks he claimed, and told them he was going to try and find a cheap doctor to go to sometime soon.

"Oh Will, you don't need a doctor." Dustin's mom said " Have you been praying about your sickness and asking the Lord to heal you??"

"yes, but Im still sick so I think I'm going to go to the doctor."

"Well, Obviously your faith is weak.  Otherwise you would be healed by now."

After saying that they both came over to where he was seating and started saying a prayer to strengthen Will's faith and to heal him of his sickness.  I was waiting for him to start convulsing and fall to the floor like on T.V. but nothing happened.

After they were finished, almost immediately his grandmother turned to me and asked "Have you been saved????"

"yes, a long time ago." I said quickly, afraid they were going to come over and pray for me too.  His grandmother just looked at me very serious, I suppose trying to figure out if I were lying or not and then turned away again.

Thankfully they weren't there very long and left after chit chatting a little bit more with Dustin and Will.  As soon as he saw their car pull off down the road, Dustin ran into his room and grabbed his pot and pipe and suggested I get my own out as well because he didn't feel like sharing unless I was throwing in.  I did as he said because after what had just happened, I really needed a smoke.  I hadn't been that uncomfortable in a very very long time.

I finished smoking and after finally seeing myself in the mirror, decided to take a shower.  The shower wasn't bad but there was no shampoo, only some sort of japanese body soap which I applied heavily from head to toe. The other down side was that I didn't have a towel, so I tried to air dry as much as possible and then used my sweatshirt for the rest.  It wasn't fun but it worked and I felt a whole lot better when I got out.

A little while after I got out of the shower Dustin had to leave for work.  He worked as a valet which apparently paid pretty well in the winter park area.  It was about 4 by that time and I was starving but there was absolutely no food to speak of.  Supposably my included "one meal a day" was dinner only, and would be whatever Dustin decided to cook. No questions asked.  Will was hungry too but I guess had gotten used to not eating.  He told me he had lost about 20 pounds since moving to florida from all bike riding and lack of food.  Will and I spent the day playing guitar hero and chain smoking cigarettes.  I tried my best to avoid smoking any weed because it didn't help with my hunger situation.

Dustin got home around 10 carrying some groceries from the chinese mart down the block.  I followed him into the kitchen to see what he was making and was really surprised at what I saw.  He pulled out a large pink cube that kind of resembled tofu that was wrapped in banana leaves.  Dustin informed me that it was pork, though I had NEVER seen pork like this before in my life.  Dustin wasn't a bad cook but the food was definitely different from what I was used to.  We had a little bit of rice, pork cubes with soy sauce and a couple of pieces of chinese bread.  The bread was the best.  It was extremely soft and sugary and practically melted in your mouth. I probably could have eaten thirty of them.  The food was strange but I was so thankful to finally be eating that I didn't care.  When we finished eating, Dustin's personality seemed to change a bit.  Suddenly he was really mad at Will and I for not cleaning up the apartment while he was gone.  He screamed at us a for a little while, ignoring our apologies, before going into his room, slamming the door behind him.  Will and I just kinda sat there. "He does this shit all the time" Will said "Just give him a few minutes to smoke some weed and he will be fine."

Sure enough a few minutes later his door opened and a big cloud of smoke rolled out into the living room.  Dustin was smiling again and walked in as if nothing had happened, and immediately started playing video games without saying a word.

I curled up in my sleeping bag and watched Dustin snipe Germans before I finally found myself drifting to sleep.  My experience with Dustin and Will had been very strange to say the least, but I was so thankful to finally be away from Lance. God had saved me and I had no idea why.