Some of my friends at HU laugh and groan at my HI5 friends list of about 300+ but I really do know 99% of those ppl and could tell you how I know them...Thats just like during xmas vac my cousin from Trinidad and my ex boyfriend kept on laughing cuz we went to town one day and every 2 steps I had to stop and chat with some one I know, bank, jewlry store, clothes store, telephone company, taxi stand, parking lot, walking on the street, internet cafe, port, post office, Fort etc etc etc.
But I dunno the people I really call friends in my life they knowwwww without a doubt that I will go all out for them, sacrifice and be honest to them.
My boy my bestest friend since the twelve days after I was born was probably my first friend, from him and his sibs I got my taste of having sibs and our parents raised us as such....you couldnt ask for one and give the answer I don't know. In primary school coming up to common entrance it got really competitive between us...dunno why...Well both of us passed and that was done....High school different manoevers and we are trying to find our own crowds...we weren't as close cuz he was tryna chase girls and you couldn't really do that with your best friend being a girl cuz everyone asks...isn't she your girlfriend? Then he had to go through the whole bros over bitches movement that comes with adoloscence and coupled with that School is wack, I'm not gonna even try. This guy was the smartest I had known till this point and he decided to dumb himself down to hang with the cool guys...girls dont have that problem even if you the hottie hottie girl u still don't wanna be the dumb girl....So he ends up in the B stream and never escaped the stigma of it ...I mean when you're in high school that seems so absolute "Hey we weeded the garden and you're in the dumb bunch" so that sorta separated us more. I wasn't his confidante anymore, couldn't influence him for the better and we only related on party terms...In fact one of my earliest poems on this blog was dedicated to him KA after he was in an accident and almost died...when he was out ofthat danger we thought he may survive but be blind....I even flew to Trinidad over the weekend to see him.....But how did I find out initially about a day late and all I was thinking was how did it get to this point that I had to find out this late and from someone else at school. During that time both of us realized hey yeah we may not know each others deepest darkest secrets but we love each other and not a nostalgic love a real friendship love that no time could diminish.
So when his daughter was born I was at school he told me. When he got pics Igot pics 2 days after she was born....when they were deciding on names he asked for my suggestions. That xmas when I went home she was thoroughly spoilt with clothes, toys, hugs and kisses from auntie T. The next time I went home she could actually call me Auntie T. When I go home I test the door and walk str8 in like I did when I was 5 through high school. If he's not home I chat with whoever is there, fix myself something to eat and watch some TV.
It's funny once I went to his house we sat down had a long heart to heart..then I was leavin he decided to go have a shower...Dumb me of course forgot the car keys and had to go back and caught my boy naked goin to shower. For a second he covered himself with his hands then he was like Whatever and we both laughed and I sat on the toilet talking to him while he took his shower.
I love him and he loves me and it is so totally in a friendship way. That is why when a friend of mine made almost to the end of high school tries to tell me about KA and his orgies with girls, getting high, short temper, love of "breaking out" innocent girls and sex antics....Rationally I hear him but in another way I don't.
That's not the person I know. I don't care that it's rumored he has herpes (small island everyone gossips)....in fact I don't believe it. I don't understand why you are so insistent to prove everything to me to shatter the esteem and love that I have for him. No one is an angel and logically since he knows me he's not gonna treat me like any old trick, but seriously now why are u sooo insistent in defaming his character to me you KNOW I don't like it.
It's almost like you are saying pick one of us, I'm the better friend, I don't like him so you can't either.....And ppl say girls like drama. Why can't you just appreciate that I have a different relationship with you both.
KA is moving on with his life finally. He has chosen a career and is working towards it both for himself and his daughter and I am proud of him. And I think now b/c of lots of little factors we are gonna get closer ... get back to the begining. This Jill Scott song Do you remember me off her 1st album always reminds me of me and KA, just two lil kids a boy and a girl sitting on a step barebacked eating a mango they can barely reach their hands around. That's my best memory of us.
Blessings 4eva
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TOTALLY SEPARATE FROM & UNRELATED TO THE ABOVE
I feel like I'm turning into the annoying crazy girl that won't leave you alone. It's all about impulse control and I never was too good at that. Sigh. Well the only benefit is that I erase all my good qualities in your eyes and....then....hmmmm???? Ok then I will know without a doubt that you don't want me and that there is nothing I can do about it....The erasure of hope is my redemption.