I was just thinking about the girls I used to hang out with in High School. I have always enjoyed surrounding myself with a harem of beautiful women. There are some that I am more proud of than others, but nonetheless, they have all served their purpose.
During my Junior Year I met Candace. We had a science class together with Mr. Lafances one year and then were in the same Science class as each other the following year, so we sat beside each other. I can't remember how exactly we began being friends but if memory serves correct, this is the most accurate tale. During class one day in October of that school year we were talking about visiting colleges. I hadn't taken this seriously, nobody had, and we found out that we actually got to MISS SCHOOL in order to go visit colleges. All we had to do was take a campus tour and get an admissions person to sign for it and we could MISS SCHOOL, on PURPOSE!
So we decided to visit East Carolina University. This was my safety school. For the record, it was everybody's safety school. I picked Appalachian State, Gardner Webb, and East Carolina. Looking back I have no clue how or why I would pick ANY of those but I can remember that they were my picks. We figured that we should go for halloween since it would be more fun that way. Candace and I had barely hung out at this point. I don't even know if we had hung out at all before this trip.
I had always known that she was a little ghetto. Her and her friends listened to rap music. Had tinted windows and big bass speakers in the trunks of their cars. Their boyfriends all wore baggy jeans and Tommy Hilfiger threads. So...again, I don't know how I managed to wind up in the circle of trust with this bunch.
For the weekend trip Candace invited Jill (she looked like a duck) and Paige. I loved Paige. I still do. Paige was always a few years younger than us, but she always seemed to act the most mature. Her parents were separated and her mother was a crazy drunk, so it was inevitable that she would turn out to be the most responsible young adult. We stayed at the Hampton Inn and we went to a few parties and what not. I remember Candace's boyfriend Zack beating a hole through our door and fighting with Candace. I remember how weird Jill was when she politely asked us to pull the car over so that she could open the door and puke. I thought it was weird that someone could be so aware of when they would vomit that they had enough time to ask to be taken to the side of the road and then ever so carefully open their door, bend over, and yak all over the street. I remember that at the time I did not drink alcohol. It was not until I turned 18 in the following December that I had my first Beer. Candace and Jill drank liqour. Paige only smoked cigarettes. I smoked them too, cause I wanted a vice. It WAS cool to smoke because I needed something other than not drinking to keep my mind off of things.
Candace, Paige, and I spent a lot of time together that year. We went to a Rave. We went to a haunted house. We also had Tina. She was a Lucy Liu looking asian bitch and she followed us around too. Tina was just as bad as I was, meaning, I was such a goodie goodie and she was too. We were both hoping that some of Candace and Paige's badness would wear off so that we would stop being so ordinary and start being cool.
These were the girls that taught me how to walk out in front of cars and casually say "We're pedestrians, they yield to us!" They were like my sexy body guards and they watched over me whenever there was possible harm around. They were tougher than any guys that I knew even though I didn't really know any guys, but they were my friends.
One day Tina and I left school in the middle of the day. Senior year was pointless so we left. I was notorious for making really good CD's for everybody and soon enough the School Counselors that "Kept guard" of the parking lot found out. They would sit at the entrace in a golf cart and make sure that nobody was leaving when they were not supposed to. So I made them Cd's and they let us come and go as we pleased. It is funny looking back on it, to think that I was this kind of person. At the time I never though I had it in me, and I guess that it was just too good to be true when it was actually happening.
I remember Tina slammed on her breaks on Highway 51 and a the car behind her bumped into us. We were barely 18, we were skipping school, and yet Tina got out of her car and started cussing out the grown woman driver that was behind us. I thought, "Damn, this bitch has balls".
Around this time Lil' Kim's Hardcore album came out. This, along with Destiny's Child's "Writing on the Wall" were the main things that we listened to throughout our trip to ECU as well as the rest of our Senior year.
By the end of the year we were thick as thieves. We had given Candace a hotel party at the Residence Inn in February, and Tina had called me up when she heard on the announcements that I had made Reverse Homecoming Court. Senior Spring break was the first time that I had liquor and Candace was the friend who taught me how to drink it.
One of my favorite memories was the first day that we got down to Cherry Grove beach. My childhood Graham (who was more cleancut that I was) came with and it was me and him, Candace, Tina and a girl named Sarah for the first night in mine and Grahams hotel room. We arrived around 3pm and got drunk off our asses. We jumped up and down on the beds, played loud music, and the girls flirted with the East Meck boys that were staying next door until we realized that they stole one of our bottles of liquor.
We had a team meeting and agreed to play it cool. Candace rode to the store with the boys in their jeep and when she returned she locked the door behind her laughing her ass off and telling us that she had stolen one of their wallets. It had fallen out in the jeep and she took it. It was the perfect revenge!
We traveled back to the beach at the end of the year after graduation. Candace, Tina, and myself were the originals and we brought three random black girls along with us. Bryson and Hunter stayed over one night when they came to drop off McNeal who had stayed with them for the first part of the week and was staying with us for the second.
When we were out on the town guys were all up in their business. They all wanted to know what was going on with Tina or Candace. Tina had this blue two-piece that she would wear and one day while walking to the beach these dudes called out "Hey Blueberry!" It was hilarious.
We went to Joe's Crabshack one night too and when we were leaving it was me and Candace alone from Tina and the B-girls. This guy walked by us and was smiling really big. At the time I couldn't tell the difference, and I thought he had been checking out Candace, even though I remember that he was an attractive guy. Candace made a scene to embarrass him and asked me quite loudly "DO YOU KNOW HIM??" We laughed at him and we continued to the car. I guess he began to follow after us and Candace got her baseball bat out of the car and beat it on the ground saying "DON'T....MESS...WITH....MY....FRIENDS!!!" It was an awkward but endearing way of a friend warding off unwanted company.
Tina and the B-Girls left halfway through the week but this was after a night when all of us were crammed into one little room, including a dude named Chauncy. For some reason the only spot left to sleep was beside McNeal and Chauncy and that was left for me. I realized that they were up to something and I decided to sleep elsewhere. While there were 8 other people in the room McNeal hooked up with Chauncy. Things got worse as the week proceeded. On one night McNeal and Candace brought two guys back to the room. Candace prided herself on only going to 2nd while McNeal came to ask her for a condom. Nobody had one between the guy that McNeal was with, Candace, or the Guy that Candace was with so it was left to assumption that there were no condoms available.
When I woke up the next morning the boys were gone, and I crawled into bed with Candace. At this point we had become like brother and sister. She looked at me with wild eyes and said "I have to tell you what happened last night!" So as a cover we told McNeal we were going to get some food.
In the car Candace told me that McNeal asked for a condom and that there was none to be found. She said it was while Candace and her guy were in the shower. When they came out of the bathroom Candace got into the bed and then the guys made an attempt to switch places. Candace declined, because thats just gross, but McNeal had another go at it with the OTHER dude that had already hooked up with Candace. So in one night she fucked two different dudes without condoms.
The next night Candace and I decided to finally go out as opposed to drinking at our hotel room like we had done every night that week prior. So we went to the Freaky Tiki and I remember hearing the Madonna vs. Stardust - Music Sounds Better with Holiday Song while we were there. When we returned to our room McNeal was not there. We went to bed.
When we woke up. McNeal was not there. We began to worry. We went knocking on the doors of the hotel until we reached a familiar face. There was a guy that McNeal had been making fun of all week standing in the door way. She had joked about how much of a loser he was and had even mentioned some insults directly to his face. We asked, "Have you seen our friend McNeal?" and he said no, then we say something move under the sheets and McNeal popped her head up and said "hey guys!" He looked over at her and looked back at us and said, "Oh, her".
It was quite eye opening to see the way she chose to live her life. But nonetheless I was friends with some crazy bitches.
I miss you Candace, I miss you Paige...I do not however miss Tina.
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