Abi: Foxy Lady [22/30]

I wanted to remember some things today about my best friend from Haines City (who I have tried so much to find in the past few years online, but have failed to, I think she’s married off or changed her name). Her name was Christina and she lived across the main road from where we lived. She was older than me, but I don’t think by too much. She and I got along well, but we both tried very hard to avoid my sister, which wasn’t as easy as it seems being that my sister was my shadow.

I remember her house’s layout so well, and even the smell… Mostly the smell was from Norman (her dad) brushing his teeth ALL the time. It always smelled of toothpaste and cigarettes (he used to roll his own, the kind in the teal/blue bag with the black silhouette).
I remember Norman as well, he used to bathe a lot in the day (I think in the summer), and walk around with a towel about him. I don’t know if he wore shirts at all now that I think about it… He was a big man, too, so it was a load of gut walking about. It was really freaky, honestly, but whatever, I just wanted to hang with Christina… and after a few months of it, I just accepted it.

I remember we used to play with the little snap-n-pops and drive Amanda insane. We learned that if you turned off the lights and threw them on he kitchen floor that they would spark. It was just the coolest thing…

I remember the games of Hide-N-Seek Scare we played…. or I played. I was the one who succeeded in scaring everyone regardless of it I was the Hider or the Seeker. I loved that game, but I vaguely recall that Christina’s mum (Sherry?) didn’t approve of all the screaming going on.

I remember catching grasshoppers with Christina in her side yard when it got overgrown…

I remember her brother’s (Daniel) dog, I think his name was Bubba, and how he used to lick himself and I would totally get grossed out. I think he was a bit pull or something, I know jack about dogs, though.

I remember she had a cat Fifi who was one HUGE cat, especially after she got fixed. She was a grey and white thing, beautiful, but I recall she was more of an independent things and rarely bothered with us humans. I remember later she had a black cat named Reba.

When we moved from Haines City I pretty much lost contact with her. When we went back, to see family, sometimes I was allowed to go visit.
Once it was even arranged that I could spend a few days with her, which was a long time after we lost contact, so I spent the whole time learning about her new life, her new friends, and her new place.
We went fishing over at the little lake where she lived (I think it was a trailer park) and I remember something happened and one of us dropped the pole in the water… It couldn't be saved. We laughed over it, on a high of not sleeping in over 24 hours…
I remember when we were trying so hard to stay up later that day we were watching LA Confidential and I’d dose to be woken by gunshots, dose again to be woken again. It seemed like a huge span of time, but it was like a one minute clip.

I remember one of her friend’s was Nickel. I thought it a very different name…
And she two other close friends, a little goth girl and a very camp male friend.

I can remember she’d got kicked out of school because someone had turned in to the school one of the notebooks her friends and her were passing to each other with letters, doodles, and whatnot in it. Apparently a comment had been about blowing up the school (no action, just something written about), totally nothing more than normal teenager ramble upon friends. Still, she and her friends got expelled.

I remember Christina and I had started some little club thing at some point. It was some Killer’s club or something, I don’t remember too much. We did a weird newsletters for it.

I remember she gave me my first ever Marilyn Mason album.

I also remember once writing a HORRIBLE story with her, but it was so much fun… Apparently you can see hurricanes coming down a street, like it were a tornado or something… o.0

I really could go on all day about her, we spent several years together in Haines City.

I do miss her, I wonder how she is. The last I heard was YEARS ago, maybe even ten, and she was pregnant and living in Georgia (I think) with the father of her unborn baby.