Calvin and I were having a lot of fun hanging out together. I enjoyed my time with him until he started begging me to have sex. That was just not up for grabs with me. I knew I was saving myself for marriage. I watched my mom and her escapades with her men and that did not seem worth the heart break and the humiliation in my eyes.
I understand why, he was the next piece to my puzzle. These beings of the Universe knew what they were doing, and how to get me to follow the breadcrumbs. Allowing me to collect the pieces of my story as I go.
Calvin was a particularly important piece of this story and that bigger part of me knew that back then. After I was adamant about saving my virginity, he went and started flirting with this other girl behind my back, while we were still going out.
I found out He was trying to two time us both. This is how I met one of my best friends Nina, I was not even aware she would be the next particularly important piece to my puzzle.
I'm guessing you would like to know how Nina and I became friends. Let me tell you the story of how we met. It was put into motion when Dumb Calvin asked Nina over to our mutual friends' house after school one day. Thinking I would be hanging out with Janet and that I would not be there. He probably wanted to impress her skateboarding on ramps.
Janet and I decided to go for a walk and buy some cigarettes at the store down the road that was known for selling cigarettes to teens. After our purchase we headed through the piggery to take a short cut. Till this day I still have no clue why it was called the piggery! I'm going to try and explain it to you because it looks nothing like it sounds at all.
Picture a group of condo apartment buildings and as you walk behind them there is a clearing of a field. Leading up to a big hill formed by rocks that you climbed up through. Then you followed the path with trees, that brought you into a wooded area with a smaller grassy clearing. This is where teens would hide away and hang out. The piggery was especially helpful if you lived on the opposite side of the city, as it took only half the time to get home from the boys and girls club.
Janet and I got bored and decided to go to Tom's house and see what the boys were up to. Since we were only about 3 minutes away at this point. Taking the short cut through the Piggery, we walked out of the woods right on to the street Tom lived on. We could already see his house was full of people and noticeably it was more than our usual friend group.
Walking up the driveway I immediately began keeping my eye out for Calvin, but he was nowhere in sight. Janet and I stood around and watched the neighborhood boys skateboarding. The "Offspring", "Smash" album was blaring on the CD player, through the speakers in Tom's bedroom window playing "Come Out and Play" Which was a favorite among skater grunge teens.
With a lit cigarette in my right hand, I felt an urge to look over to my left. That's when I spotted a new girl I had never seen at Tom's house before. She looked lost and a bit nervous, but at the same time her presence came across as guarded. Everything in me was telling me to go say Hi and introduce myself to her. I started getting a feeling that she was especially important for me to get to know, and I could not shake it.
The next thing I noticed was Janet wasn't standing beside me anymore; she must have started talking to someone else and took off. While I had my head up in the clouds wondering where my boyfriend had been hiding at this point.
Still not able to function without following the small voice in my head. I intuitively followed the instructions and headed over to the girl in the corner of the garage.
Making my way over to her, I noticed how she had made eye contact with me also. And I caught her giving me the once over. I always felt incredibly uncomfortable when females did this to me. Every time certain girls at school or around town stared at me, I felt the energies they were sending my way.
Most of the time it felt like a spectrum of emotions from envy to jealousy or just plain contempt. These girls had made up their minds about me with just one glance my way. I could hear them judging me by the way I dressed or how I looked. instead of getting to know who I was.
Supposedly I had an air of being stuck up and untouchable back then. My best friends, guys and girls that I hung out with. Told me that's how some people in school perceived me. They found it funny because they knew me personally, and I am not in any way the person people perceived me to be.
I had a good laugh with them when I heard this. During that time in my life, I was insecure and felt like I did not belong anywhere. I was hiding from the whole world, a part of me felt alienated from the rest of the girls. I was trying hard to fit in while playing the acting role of a lifetime. Apparently, I am a great actress, because I wanted to come off as confident and beautiful like my Meme' and my mom always did.
Unfortunately, I forgot to add the intellectual part of me to meld with the rest of me. I kind of pushed that part of me aside. So instead, I came off looking like a ditzy, walking talking barbie doll. When in fact I am highly intelligent, I just chose to hide that part of me. Not only did I conceal my intellect from my peers. I kept the act going for so long that I forgot who the hell I was, for an exceptionally long time.
I walked up to her to say hi and introduce myself. Being very friendly, while ignoring what might be her first impressions of me. I found out her name was Nina, and she came here to meet up with a boy she met at school today. He had invited her over to Tom's house to watch him skateboard and hang out. Nina told me that she was hoping to get to know him better.
I could tell by talking with Nina that she was letting her guard down with me. It is funny to think back to that first meeting with Nina now because we were so different.
Nina had wavy hair to my straight hair. Green eyes to my blue eyes. She was shorter with a muscular build, compared to my tall stick figure. She was wearing a short beige sleeve sweater and a pair of ripped jeans. That day I was wearing my Daisy duke spirit short shorts. They were dark blue with gold stitching around the pockets. I was always wearing belly shirts back then with an open flannel shirt over them.
I was never raised to be embarrassed of my body, which is why I wore extraordinarily little clothing when it was hot outside. It was normal in my family, but not so much in other people's families. Most teenage girls were dealing with body issues, and I was blessed to have gone through my dorky stage in another town.
By the time I hit high school I was noticeably confident in my body and loved it so much. My issue back then was my mind Hahahahah.
Still getting along fabulously with Nina, Jay interrupted us to ask me what's up. He wanted me to know everyone was upstairs. They had seen me out the upstairs window and sent Jay downstairs to see if I wanted to come up and smoke a bowl with them. I pondered on this for a moment because I was having a really good time getting to know Nina. But at the same time my friends whom I love and adore were summoning me.
I asked him if Calvin was upstairs. That's when Jay told me that Calvin had saw me out the Living room window while I was walking up the street. Then supposedly, he waited for me to walk up the driveway before he said he had to bounce to the guys and slipped out the front door.
Allegedly Calvin told the crew he was going back home to his aunts for dinner. Jay told me he was shocked that Filmore didn't come outside to meet me and say hi, before he headed home. Then before he knew it the guys told him they saw Calvin booking it up the road towards the piggery. It surprised him because he thought Calvin would have wanted to see me. Instead, it looked to him like Calvin was trying to avoid me.
Nina looked puzzled as well as confused, she was clearly upset at this point. She couldn't hide the disappointment it was written on her face. Nina couldn't hold it in any longer, so she blurted out, your boyfriend is not Calvin, is it? Thinking nothing of it at first, I said yup, he is, do you know him? Right after I confirmed that Calvin was indeed my boyfriend, she became terribly upset. She wasn't mad at me, but she was pissed at Calvin.
Nina explained to me that Calvin is the guy that asked her to meet him here. Then after about an hour he disappeared into thin air and never said goodbye to her.
I remember feeling irate at this new-found information. Standing there on the asphalt of the driveway I looked toward the street contemplating if I should walk to Calvin's aunt's house to give him a rash of shit. In my head I was fuming and began wondering, what does this girl have over me? I mean we are so completely opposite in appearance and personality.
These thoughts dissipated after only a few brief moments. Then I was ok and let the emotion pass through me. It really sucked because I really liked Nina, and now because of this dip shit I don't know how we can become friends now.
Nina Looked sorry for me because she knew that my boyfriend was acting like a dirt bag. I very nicely explained to her that I wasn't upset with her. It was not her fault that a charming, full of himself, cute, arrogant ass put a spell on her, with his beautiful crystal blue eyes and cocky smile.
Nina and I both agreed that somebody needed to teach him a lesson, that way he would think twice before doing this to anyone ever again. So, can you guess who the somebodies were? Of course, Nina and I were now on a mission to get Calvin back for the humiliation he put us through.
At that moment we both had a realization, Calvin actually thought he could pull the wool over our eyes. That's why we devised a plan to get back at him. It took a great deal of acting on my part, because I had to hold in my disgust for him. While acting like nothing had happened last night.
The plan required me to keep acting as his fun, bubbly girlfriend. While Nina and I would continue to pretend that we had never met each other. The mission was for us to let him think he was getting away with juggling the two of us. Then we could trap him in his own game.
Nina and I exchanged phone numbers before we left to go home that evening, so we could talk with each other outside of school. To make it easier for us to be on the same page to plot our payback.
Recalling all the drama he had caused me; I can now thank Calvin for his part in it. If he didn't invite her over to Tom's house to try and two time us. We would have never met each other, then we would have never become such close friends. It took her obsession with my dream boy, to finally pull us together. Wait I'm getting ahead of myself, let me leave that right there for later in the story.
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