by Makavelli Knight

Created on: January 19, 2010   Last Updated: April 04, 2011

It was an extremely frigid Friday evening in New York City. The blizzard was fierce, and the snow was coming down hard. The snow buried the streets, and just about everything shut down. This reminded me of the severe blizzard of 1996, which paralyzed the city for two days.

I was at Denise’s brownstone on the upper West Side hanging out with four other friends: Vanessa, Juan, Alex, and Jeannie. We were all great friends, and graduate students at Hunter College. We were in the living room eating hot pizza and drinking cool Iced Teas.  Both the sausage pizza and iced tea tasted good, and I felt so relaxed in Denise’s home.

“I can’t believe how bad it is outside.” Vanessa said. “The meteorologist on Fox News didn’t say anything about a blizzard. He is such an idiot!”

Juan laughed and said, “Well, you can’t believe everything they say. Meteorologists aren’t always correct.”

“That is so true, Juan.” Alex agreed. “I was disappointed many times with their bad information. I get out of bed thinking it’s a nice sunny day, I look out the window, and it’s raining hard!”

“You’re funny, Alex.” Denise smiled. “I was looking forward to going out tonight rocking my new dress. Now that I have a lot of time on my hands, I can finally chill and relax.”

“My time usually consisted of writing papers and working at the hospital.” Jeannie continued. “When I finally get a day off to go clubbing, I can’t even do it.”

“Yeah, I wanted to go out and own the scene.” I expressed. “I was ready to flash and pop some bottles.”

Moments later, Denise suggested that we play some spades. As Denise went to find the playing cards, I put the radio on Hot 97 to help enhanced the mood. Vanessa and Jeannie weren’t much of card players, so they were standing by the window watching the snowflakes danced in the dark sky and talking about the epic science fiction film Avatar. The rest of us were sitting at the table in the dining room playing spades. Denise and I were partners, and I was very impressed with the chemistry we had. The card games were so intense as if we were debating at the United Nation. We rarely spoke, as we slammed the cards down and competed like real athletes. Denise and I won all three games and it took us about two hours to do so.

Vanessa and I were ready to leave, but our attempt

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