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An Encounter From the Past: Part 3

So again this is another continuation from my past story of the second time I met with my former girlfriend. The last post was “Warm Memories for All” or the last part two if anyone is curious. I’m getting fuzzy on the details from the time I left of at, but the entire encounter was as memorable as possible. So without further ado, here is the continuation of my story.

Friday May 26, 2006

I woke up again with Brittany crawling up into my lap and sort of tugging at the sheets because she wanted to crawl right into bed with me. We snuggled for a little while and I asked her if she slept well, she said yes and she exchanged the same questions. We shared some kisses together as we usually would until her mom called us for breakfast. I believe that morning Brittany actually asked her mom if she could have ramen for breakfast since it was the last day of school. I don’t really know why, but her mom let her. It made me laugh, and that was the first time I had had ramen noodles. We played footsie under the table as always and I just loved it, she would always giggle whenever I would tickle the underside of her foot.

Brittany’s sister Amber said that Brittany would put so much cayenne pepper in her ramen that the soup would turn red. I asked Brittany to put some in mine, and I’ve never had ramen without it to this day, given I don’t have that much. When we were done eating, I tried to drink the soup, but Brittany squealed and told me not to drink it because it’s nasty, so I didn’t.

After all of that, we went off to the bathroom to brush our teeth together again. As I said that was one of my favorite things to do with her, I never knew why. I guess it was just fun to watch her because of all the facial expressions she’d have. Usually she’d get done before me and run off. Sometimes she’d sneak back up behind me and pinch my butt or try to scare me which I would get my revenge by tackling her to bed.

After she and I got ready to take her to school, I made her show me where her yearbook was so I could finally sign it, but instead I took it when she showed me so I could sign it in the car on the way to school so she could get her friends to sign it too. Once we got in the backseat of her moms car, we found it difficult to stay apart from each other when we were sitting right next to each other. I tried to write as much as I could but I couldn’t resist most of the time just snuggling up to her and smothering her with kisses and tickles just so I could hear her giggle. She told me it was all right that I didn’t get o finish, she only really cared what I had to put in there and if I needed more time it was all right. I still felt bad about it and I kept asking “are you sure sweetheart?” and she said “Yeah I really don’t mind, you’re more important to me because I only have a limited amount of time with you, plus I’m going to see most of my friends in a few months once school starts again anyway.”

I always was touched the way she would word things like that. There was one part of me where I would think she really was a little bit upset, but at the same time I could honestly and sincerely see that it didn’t bother her that much. I was glad that she saw it as she just needed me to sign the yearbook for her because I would only have a limited time with her and it made me feel more at ease to sign it for her and collect my thoughts without being rushed.

Once we dropped Amber and Brittany off at school for the last time, whom I wished a good luck on her last final exam for the year, their mom and I went back to the house again. Today her mom and I had another sort of busy day. I laid back down in Brittany’s bed for a little bit and took a nap and when I woke up to Brittany’s mom asking me if I wanted to go with her to Sam’s Club and the aluminum plant to drop off a bunch of soda cans and whatnot and get money for it to actually go to Sam’s Club.

I remember this day pretty clearly with her mom, we talked a lot as we drove around. Her mom began telling me the story of her first and only marriage. What had happened was she fell madly in love with a boy and his name was David. They were high school sweethearts, and planned on spending the rest of their lives together. The catch was, he developed cancer. Once they graduated high school, they got married as soon as they could so they could enjoy what life they had left to live together. He enlisted in the army so when he was gone, she would still have some support from him even though he was dead from a military check. They bought a fantastic house together, which her mom took me to see on our way home from Sam’s Club and the aluminum plant, as well as stopping off at Burger King to get lunch. She told me that sometimes she would drive by that house every now and then to just think of what once was. She said that one of the things he was most proud of in that house was the gold plated water faucets in the bathrooms which I thought was pretty funny.

In any case, she told me stories of how David sometimes experimented with drugs to relieve the pain, which he stopped immediately when Brittany’s mom asked him to. This lead a segue into a conversation about how proud she is of Brittany and Amber for not using drugs or alcohol and she was also proud of me for not using anything either. She told me that at one point he began to lose his appetite and she would have to go across the border to South Carolina in order to fill a prescription for medicinal marijuana so it would give him an appetite. Eventually she said she would try to lobby in Georgia to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes because she was tired of going across the border for it, but she would still do it for him because she loved him that much.

Eventually he passed away because of the cancer, I’m not really sure what type of cancer it was, she never really told me nor did I want to stir any bad memories. She told me that when he died, she wound up driving from Augusta to Myrtle Beach straight in one shot because she was so upset at the fact that he left her here alone. She was so angry that she wound up throwing her wedding ring out of the window. She told me she would look for hours trying to find it to before eventually heading back home. She still kept the engagement ring they had, and she told me right then that if I had ever planned on marrying Brittany or when the time came, that I was more than welcome to use that ring for our engagement. Her mom always told me she was so proud of me for working towards a cure for cancer, and it never made more sense until after that conversation we had throughout our time we were driving.

Just knowing the story of her mom’s past relationship brought me a lot closer to the family and I was just glad to see that her mom always knew the type of love that Brittany and I had for each other, you know the real thing. Once we got home from our outing, we only stayed there for a little while. Next we were supposed to be going to Fort Gordon because Brittany’s Grandma on her mom’s side needed a medication prescription filled out and it was the cheapest place to get it. Her mom told me that we were more or less going to pick up the girls after going to the fort. I grabbed the yearbook again and I began to work on it as we rode to the fort.

Now also, David was not Brittany’s father, nor is Bill, the current man that I refer to her as “dad.” Brittany’s mom met a man, Jerry, whom she fell for and that is who Brittany’s biological father turned out to be. They were never married because Brittany’s mom still had utter and devoted feelings for David. When Brittany’s mom was very pregnant with Brittany, Jerry had a business trip to go on and he was debating on going or not. Her mom asked him not to go several times, but he wound up going which showed her how committed he was to their new family all ready. It showed her that he was willing to leave her in her state to go on a business trip to Myrtle Beach rather than asking for someone to take his place. Jerry was not in the delivery room when Brittany was born, Bill actually was.

Now I’ve never been to Fort Gordon before and I really didn’t know what to expect. She told me that I needed photo ID and sometimes they pull cars over to the side because of 9/11 and do a real thorough search. She said that she’s never had to experience that before, and she never wanted to. She’s been pulled over to the side before entering the fort before and this would be one of those times.

When we got to the entrance of the Fort we wound up being pulled over to the right side and asked to get out of the car so they could inspect it. They asked for our IDs and I presented mine with Brittany’s mom’s. We opened the trunk and backseat for them and I was asked to open the front of the car lid for them. I had a little trouble because it wasn’t my car and I wasn’t used to opening it. The guy that asked me sort of chuckled and asked if I was having a little trouble and I said nah that I wasn’t really used to opening this car. Once I got it opened he asked me if I knew how to change oil and whatnot and I said I did and he said “Good, all young men should be able to do basic mechanic things like this, you’ve got a good boy on your hands ma’am.” I thought it was great that he thought I was her son, and when he said that we just looked at each other and smiled.

After we were done being checked by security, we were allowed to pass through into the fort. Like I said, I didn’t know what to expect because I’ve never been in a military establishment before, but I was expecting military personal everywhere. Oddly enough, it looked like just a decent place to live. Brittany’s mom explained to us that families live on the fort and the kids go to school also, she showed me one of the schools when we passed by. It was all mostly open grassland with a few trees here and there, it was quite beautiful and incredibly vast. I expected it to be completely of concrete or very closed in, I guess more like my university.

We approached the commissary shopping area and Brittany’s mom had to put her cigarette out because there was no smoking allowed on the premises. We walked into the shopping area and it was not at all what I expected. There were little shops here and there and vendors, just like an average mall. We had to wait on line for a little while at a pharmacy to pick up Brittany’s grandmother’s prescription. The prescription was for pain medication, she was just getting over a break in one of her vertebrae and a leg fracture because she fell during Christmas, but she was still in pain.

Once we got the prescription, Brittany’s mom explained to me that most people come here to fill out their prescriptions if they can because there was no tax since it was on a government establishment and it made sense to me. We started walking around and she showed me the little area. We walked into this one store, it was almost like a warehouse kind of feel where things were sold at either really low prices or in bulk. She stopped by a little perfume counter and took a smell and her eyes light up and she kept going on about how much she liked that smell and she said she wondered if Brittany would like it. I told her that I wasn’t really sure since she never really wears perfume, but I’m sure she’d like it if she got it. Her mom didn’t wind up getting it and we wandered around some more and her mom said “Well right about now would be great to look for a Father’s Day present for Billy!” We laughed and I said yeah and I tried to help her find something, and she wound up picking out a really nice watch for him. She showed me that they even had a video game section and everything and I tried looking for a decent video game for Brittany, but I wasn’t really sure what she’d like.

We left the store after a while and I looked to my left and I saw a Cinnabun place. I said “oooh Cinnabun my cousin used to work at one!” and just by saying that her mom acted just like my mom and asked if I wanted one. I said that I was all right but she just gave me a smirk and said “Go get yourself one it’s all right” so I mean what was I gonna do? They’re delicious, so I wound up getting one.

We headed back for the car because it was about time to go pick up the girls. While we were in the car, I ate only half of the cinnamon bun because I wanted to share the rest with Brittany. Her mom asked me if that was what I was going to do and I said sure am! We got back to the house, had a few minutes there so her mom could wake her dad up to start working on dinner and to leave the prescription there. I left the cinnamon bun there on the table also because I wanted to finish working on what I had to write in the yearbook on the way to the school. I had what I wanted to write in there, but there was just something more I wanted to do to make it more personable. What I wound up doing was drawing a big ol’ duck that took up most of a page. I have to say that it was a pretty good duck!

We arrived to Amber’s school and waited for her to show up again. As usual her mom stepped out for a smoke while we waited and I remember feeling sorry for the kids that had to go to class in the outdoor classrooms. I felt like that because I remember it being so hot and those kids don’t have air-conditioning. Amber’s school was under construction which was why some of it required them to be in outdoor classrooms. Once Amber came out from the school I got into the backseat ready to receive my darling.

We drove off to Brittany’s school and parked in the parking lot and waited for her to cross the crosswalk. I got out of the car, giving her the biggest smile as she approached me with that warm wonderful smile of hers as well. I took her backpack, tossed it in the trunk and gave her the biggest hug I’ve ever given her. I picked her up and twirled her around and she giggled louder than I had ever heard her do before. As you can tell we were pretty excited that she was finally done with school for the summer and we can enjoy our time together finally.

Brittany and I got into the car and I immediately gave her such a big kiss and we sort of made out a little haha. I asked her how her last exam was and she told me it went all right and she felt completely confident in it. I presented her with her yearbook and I wanted her to read it. She really liked the duck I drew for her and when she was done reading what I had wrote for her, she was crying into my neck and hugging onto me for dear life. She kept whispering to me how much she loved me and appreciated having me in her life because she wouldn’t have it any other way, which I was glad for because I wouldn’t have either. I told her everything we did that day and how we went to the commissary and the little shopping center on Fort Gordon. I also told her I got her a cinnamon bun and her eyes light up and I thought that was adorable. She said we would have it for dessert after dinner.

We got home and I helped Brittany take her stuff into her room and once we were back there she grabbed me in her arms and we plopped onto her bed and just.. kissed for the longest while. She went to go wash up and I remember laying there on her bed looking up at the ceiling thinking “so this is how it feels.. this is how it finally feels to be in a relationship and to finally be with my girlfriend.” I thought that on several occasions, but I remember that day was when I had my epiphany. Her grandma on her dad’s side came over and we started getting ready for dinner. If I remember correctly we had steak for that night because it was Friday and usually on Fridays they would have steak or some sort of seafood. We got drinks all set out and the table set and we sat down at the table. Brittany and I tickled each other’s feet and toes as usual. I remember sometimes we would try to hold each others toes together. At dinner we discussed Brittany having to work on Sunday and I told her again that I’d sincerely help her at the club because I didn’t care. Bill kept reminding me that I wouldn’t get paid most likely and I said I still didn’t care because I’d rather be with Brittany doing something than sitting here at the house doing nothing. He gave a chuckle because I guess he thought it was silly, but Brittany just smiled at me and I kissed her nose.

We also talked about having to go to Walmart to pick up poster board to make a sign or two because Brittany’s grandma on her mom’s side was having a yard sale. Her Aunt Gladys was just moved to a retirement/mental home because she has progressive dementia so her grandma made the decision on what to do with things that didn’t matter much, plus she wanted to get rid of her own things. We were going to go help her grandma run the yard sale and just spend time with her, as well as sell some of their own stuff.

After dinner, Brittany and I picked out pieces of artwork that I didn’t want nor did she want that she wanted to sell at the yard sale. We also went through her closet and under her bed to get random things to sell and put in the car to take over to her grandma when we were going to go over there to take the prescription over as well. Amber gave us a few old GameBoy games and a really old GameBoy to add to the yard sale. She wanted the entire thing with the little case sold for 20$ and Brittany and I said we’d see what we could do.

Eventually we got everything together and we tossed it in the trunk of the car. We started heading out towards Walmart. We came to the end of her street and all of the sudden my cell phone started ringing. The person calling me wound up being my friend Jay from back home. I picked it up and I said “Hey Jay what’s up?” and he said “Well, I’m just sitting here in my house and I’m getting a few people together and I’m assuming that you’re home now so I was wondering if you wanted to come over and play a game of wiffle ball.” After he said that I started chuckling under my breath and I looked at Brittany and I made a “Shh!” face because I wanted to mess with him. So I wound up saying “Yeah sure Jay lemme be right there in a few hours.” It was quiet for a little while and he was just like “What do you mean?” and I said “Jay remember I told you I was going to see Brittany?” and he said “Oh yeah! I completely forgot! Are you with her right now?” When he said that I handed the phone to Brittany and she yelled “Hi Jay!” and we all just burst out laughing. After that was established he said “Well it would be pretty difficult for you to come play wiffle ball huh?” and I said “Yeah pretty much” chuckling. That was the best phone call it was so funny. Jay’s one of my better friends from high school, he lives around the block from me back home and yeah that was great.
We got to Walmart and Brittany’s mom went to go get an ICEE from the front of the store as she did the other day. Brittany and I went off to the arts and crafts section so we could get some poster board for the signs we were going to make for the yard sale. After we found the poster board we walked over to the bead section for Brittany because she was really into making jewelry and bead stuff like hemp necklaces too. She wound up picking up a few packets of beads and some twine for hemp necklaces and she said “I want to make you a necklace!” I was really touched when she said that and I hugged her and lifted her up as she squealed and I told her that she really didn’t need to and she said “Yeah I know but that’s the great thing about it, I know I don’t need to but I want to!” I just.. every time she would tell me things like that or do things for me it just always felt like I would fall in love with her all over again.

After we were done with the arts and crafts section, we met up with her mom again. Her mom told Brittany to toss everything in the cart, but Brittany started insisting that it was all right that she’d pay for the beads and everything, but her mom kept insisting that it was all right. What Brittany wound up doing was pretending to put her things in the cart, but she kept her things except for the poster board.

Brittany and I wound up walking over to the candy section and picking out a bag of gummie bears and sour Trollie bite worms because those were one of her favorites. We went to a check out line and while on the line there was a pen that had Ariel the Little Mermaid on the top and she picked it up and squealed. I asked her if she wanted it and she said “Nah it’s okay” and put it back down. It was something small, so I really didn’t care, so what I wound up doing was paying for the candy and the pen.

We were walking out of the store and I said to her “Are you happy that you have your pen now?” and she said “Yes very much so” and we were laughing and then I said “There! Now you can’t ever say that I never bought you anything!” I don’t know what happened after that, but saying that wound getting Brittany sort of upset that I said that. She told me she felt like I was rubbing it in her face that I bought her the pen, but I explained to her that I was just joking around and that I really don’t care about spending money on her because it doesn’t matter to me and I just like making her happy. I told her that I really didn’t mean to make her upset and we were just joking around about the whole situation I just didn’t think twice about it. She told me that it was more or less because of the way I said it. We discussed this on the way home in the car, I really felt terrible for making her feel bad because now that we were together I didn’t want our time together to be taken up by little bickers.

Once we got home we sat down on her bed and we talked about it. We apologized to each other, her for getting worked up about something little and me for upsetting her in the first place. She put the pen in her purse and we just lay down in the bed together and she snuggled up to me apologetically. While lying with her, I remember thinking “wow that was probably our first little tiff.. and we got over it really quickly.. I love this girl so much..” and all the while I was just looking into her eyes and she just started giving me little kisses.

After we had lay in bed for a while, Brittany got up and went to the bathroom. I lay there still in the bed and all of the sudden I got a phone call. I didn’t pick it up because I didn’t recognize the number. Once they left a voicemail I called the voicemail and Brittany came back from the bathroom and lay down beside me again and asked me who I was talking to. I told her I didn’t know who called me but I was listening to the voicemail. Once it got going I knew who it was, it was this girl I was friends with in high school. Apparently one of my other friends was going away to another country for the summer and they were having a surprise going away party. I felt bad because I wanted to go, but at the same time I was all right especially since I was with Brittany.

We went into the living room after and Brittany wanted to play Halo on the Xbox her parents got her for Christmas that Christmas. I grabbed a big ol’ bag of Starbursts that my mom sent down with me and we ate some while we were playing the game. I thought it was so much fun playing Halo with her, I believe it was the second one. She was surprisingly good, I mean I always knew she was great at video games but finally being able to play them with her put things into perspective and I just loved seeing how much fun she was having. While we were playing she sat in between my legs on the floor so my legs were wrapped around her and she was sort of in my lap. We would usually watch TV or play games like that, either her in front which was more likely, or me in front.

I remember having a discussion about how terrible the strawberry Starbursts were now. For some reason that year they changed the taste of the Starbursts and they really weren’t all that good. Eventually we got bored of the game because we couldn’t get past one area because… well we wound up tossing bombs at each other to see who could kill each other first, it was funny. We put the game system up and I reminded Brittany about the cinnamon bun that I saved for her and her eyes lit up adorably. I got the cinnamon bun for her and heated it up a little bit and we sat there at the table munching on it. We talked about the yard sale the next day, as well as possibly watching a movie together on my laptop. I had downloaded a bunch of movies that Brittany and I had wanted to watch. We said that maybe tomorrow we could watch one. We also started discussing the trip. Now up until now, I haven’t mentioned it, but we were going on vacation while I was down there. Her grandma has a timeshare and she had scheduled a timeshare vacation in Daytona Beach while I was down there so I could go with them all. We were so excited because this would be the first time in a long time that I would be on a real vacation and it would be with the love of my life, especially at the beach.

After we finished the cinnamon bun, and chatting and tickling each other at the table, we wanted to stay up late since it was the first day that she was off school, but we needed to get up early to help her grandma with the yard sale the next day. We went back to her room and snuggled up under a blanket her grandma knitted for her and we watched some Family Guy. Well, watched is what I’d like to call it haha, we wound up kissing and snuggling together and getting a little passionate until her mom and sister told us that it was time for us to go to bed.

Brittany and I brushed our teeth together as usual and started getting ready for bed. She told me that she was going to try her best to sneak in on me again, but she can’t guarantee anything because she was really tired tonight. I said it was okay because we have the whole vacation together to spend time with each other. She tucked me into bed like usual, gave me a kiss and I wrapped my arms around her, bringing her down to me and we just… kissed and kissed for what seemed like forever. Every time I would kiss her it would always be like magic. We said our good nights, and she wound up going off to bed in her moms room. She didn’t surprise me that night and I really didn’t expect it because usually when she says something, it probably is going to happen.

So that’s it for this part for now  I figure it’s long enough, a little over 8 pages here on my word processor. I hope you all enjoy it, I’ll try to combine the yard sale of the next day and the work at the gun club that Sunday in one next update. I really enjoy writing all of this for you guys, and I really hope you all enjoy it. Thanks in advanced for giving this post the time of day to read  I know it’s very long, but I hope you enjoy my writing again.

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