I went to a Cave

Tonight, I was in a cave with the taste of glostix in my mouth and a cut on my thigh. How did I get there?

I had nothing to do tonight and I was bored. Tori asked me if I wanted to go with her to the ice caves and play hide and seek. I thought about it for a minute and then said of course I'd go because I have never been in a cave before. I immediately thought to bring my knife and flashlight. I had my knife but I had no idea where my flishlight was. I looked around everywhere and then I thought to ask Kelsey if she had seen it because I had remembered having it in her car when we had a bon fire. It sorta pissed me off that she was being so reluctant about it. The simple act of her neglagence would lead to a terrible disaster on my part. I hope she feels bad. We left our apartment by around 8 or so and walked to the other side of campus to another apartment complex. Outside the front of the compex there was a sign that said "Marriage Garunteed" and I rolled my eyes and thought about how completely and disgustingly Mormon that was. So I stole a 3 inch spire from the top of their fence. Tori and I were waiting to meet with Boux and his cousin who is Tori's animal handling class. Anyway we finally met up with them and some other people. There were like 7 of us in this little car. It took us about an hour to actually get out there and when we reached the road leading to the caves we got out and jumped into the back of a truck.
I counted 21 teens in the truck.
The ride in the truck was tedious since I was sitting on the edge and had to hold on for dear life if I had any chance of surviving. We finally reached the caves about 10 or so. I'm not really sure what time it was because Boux has this rule about locking up the phones while he is driving so all conversations are centered within the car. Which I guess is cool... Anyway we get there and we see this cave and its ominous and dark and there was about one flashlight to every 6 people. It was super dangerous with all the rocks and such but nontheless we entered the dark and scary cave.
It was a while after we had stumbling through the dark that anyone near me questioned about 1. how far into the cave we were going and 2. where the front of our group was. We all silently agreed to keep walking and just figure it out. At last it seemed as though we had finally reached our group, but then a strange thing started happening. They were getting feisty and yelling at us to shut our lights off. At first I was confused because they were telling us to stay by the wall. It felt as though we were entering an unfriendly area. I finally figured out that this was a totally different group whose game we were completely distroying by having just our menial amount of lights. There were harsh words said between the groups. A man from the enemy's side pointed out that by having our lights, it diminished glow of the glowstix. Then being the diplomat that I am, I quaintly spoke out "If you have charity, Jesus will bless you and your glowstix will endure. So shut up and just let us pass" It seemed to shut them up because no more words were said between the two groups. We passed peacefully on and just around the corner our group was hundled on top of a huge pile of boulders.
Making my way up the rocks was tricky. They were wet and steep, but by holding on to Tori's hand, I was able to get up the boulders successfully... untill....
           the light had severely dimmed and I was feeling for a safe area to place my foot. It wasnt till after I had comitted to the step and felt my leg get wedged within the rocks that I realized that I only felt air. It was dark so not many people saw me fall, but the man who did was nice enough to help me up. His name was Joe. Joe walked me over to a safe place to sit and asked me if I was okay. I responded, "Well, there is a scratch on my leg the size of my face, I feel like I was punched in the stomache and the ovaries, and I hit my head.... but other than that I'm superb" Joe laughed and said that if ever I neeeded help or just wanted to quit the game I could just yell his name. So I practiced and he pretended to be impressed. I just sat there and let the crowd of 60 stumble around me. We were all handed glowsticks that were cut open and on the count of three we waved our arms out and spilt the insides all over ourselves. It was one of the most magical things I've ever seen. All the rocks glowed and we glowed. The roof of the cave glowed. I felt like I was in the middle of a moonless night. The magic died when some blonde chick flicked her glowstick right at my face and got it in my mouth and eyes. It hurt and tasted like Hitler's stache... just terrible. I didnt bother to really play the game. I just sat there and watched the rest of the glowing bodies blend in with the rocks and lay still. I was incredibly impressed with how well they blended.
After a couple rounds, the same chick who flicked me in the eye with her neon pink liquid was it. Wonderful. I was seated on my rock and not even pretending like I was at all interested in what was happening. She counted up to 60. She looked up and walked straight up to me. "This person is incredibly obvious. That's a stupid hidding place." I looked up at her and told her that I wasnt playing and that I hadnt been this whole time. She took it as though I were being a poor sport and I just didnt want to be "it". And after she got me sufficiently annoyed, she let it go.
By this time I was completely fed up with imminent death and I just wanted to take a step without the fear of loosing a limb. It was about 11.
The group of people we came with decided to go one more round. I took off my jacket so I was completely black and no one could see me and I started making my way back out of the cave. It was a long jurney, but finally I saw stars. Not neon pink green and yellow. But serious stars. I was so happy. I climbed into the back of the truck and we made the long trip home.
Some people say that these kinds of experiences are what college is all about. Adventure, action, and the threat of loosing your life to rocks... I think God put this experience in my life so that I could see what a great friend Tori could be. The entire time she was holding my hand and checking up on me. I feel really bad for bagging on her and thinking all these terrible things about her. She really is a great girl and I just hope she can always be this wonderful because the side I saw from her tonight was beautiful.