mistaken

The rain poured down as I walked into work today. I hate walking in the rain, I would much rather be walking in the snow. It's a weird concept but a very reasonable personal choice of mine. Anyways, as I'm walking with my head down I completely crash into this chick, I mean crash. It was not a bump and it was definitely not graceful in any way, shape or form. I sent her and her Macy's bags flying to the ground. She's shorter, with brown hair perfectly pinned back in a bun. She's wearing a teal rain jacket and pitch black skinny jeans. I notice her pick up her huge sunglasses first, my first thought is my god she's one of them! You know the type, the stuck up fashion crazed girls who shop for fun. I never understood that concept. As I picked myself up and helped her gather her things she looked at me with a odd glance. She gasped and squealed, "Dana?!!!" I looked around to see if she was talking to someone else but no she was looking at me. "Ummm no," I replied. "Oh come on Dana, Edina High class of 97," she said desperately, "It's me Julianna!" I kept giving her a blank stare. "You don't remember me do you," she quietly said glaring at the ground. "I'm sorry, I'm not Dana you must have me mistaken for someone else," I say quickly, lighting up a smoke in between words. She now has tears in her eyes, I thought it was just the rain at first but no it's tears. "Oh, I'm sorry, I just don't know anyone here," she said gasping as she spoke. I gave her a look of pity and walked away. I didn't really know what to say to her. I can't help it if I'm not Dana and I sure as hell wasn't going to pretend to be. I just felt so bad for the girl who seemingly had everything but was grasping out for a friend. As I started walking the rest of the way to work I couldn't help but to think about her. Did she really not have any friends? Couldn't she have met one of her type at Macy's? Is that horrible to think? I looked back and she was sitting on the sidewalk with her bags surrounding her like a shell. Her face was in her hands and her body looked like it was slightly trembling. I guess part of her wanted me to be Dana way more than I may ever know.