After hearing the worst news possible towards the end of February 2021 that covid would soon force the U.S. the go into lockdown, everyone started to prepare for the worst by the month of March. At the time I was working at the Guess store inside of Lenox Mall. It wasn’t the best job but given my interests in fashion, I was just happy to be there. I will admit it wasn’t the most interesting job. I was working anywhere from 25 to 30 hours a week, but it definitely kept me busy and out of trouble, plus I had recently gotten a raise at the start of the new year. Although I did enjoy my job, I was not at all worried of being laid off as a result of covid. In fact I was kind of excited because I thought it would just bring me closer to my friends since I would have more time to hang out instead of having to work all the time. 

By the middle of March me and almost everyone I knew had been laid off from their job temporarily due to covid. People say the idle mind is a dangerous place to be left in, for me this was starting to be very apparent. I thought I was going to be spending most of my time with my friends but covid turned out to be a lot more serious than I anticipated and most of our parents wanted us to stay in doors. So I decided to start watching new anime series such as One Piece, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, and Prison School, as well as playing a new zombie game I had gotten called Days Gone. I tried to stay in doors for the first week of quarantine but playing zombie games and watching anime for hours on end just did not satisfy me enough to keep me inside. I then decided I would start going to the park to skate every morning, and I did. It felt good to get out the house and catch some fresh air. Soon my best friend, Lawrence, would start coming with me to skate at the park and in a way it was us rebelling against the restraints of covid. That felt good to us, so then we started to break even more quarantine rules. We were going out to eat, skating in the city, hanging out at each others house, and overall just enjoying the absence of the general population. It wasn’t long until we were all called out of lockdown. By April I had started back working at Guess like nothing had ever happened.