Blind Squirrels by Davis Jennifer

Author:Davis, Jennifer [Davis, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Jennifer Davis
Published: 2012-08-16T21:00:00+00:00

As the days slowly passed, I began hanging around Felicia and Laura more and more. I often left Olivia and Aurelia so I could be with them. Felicia and Laura seemed cooler than Olivia, and I wanted to be popular. When Felicia and Laura talked about other people, I joined right in – thinking they would accept me. Laura and Felicia soon started making fun of Olivia. I wouldn’t join in, but I didn’t tell them to stop either. Whenever I hung around Olivia, I felt guilty for not defending her. My solution was to hang around her less.

Olivia never gave up on me. She continued to be my friend even when she knew what Felicia and Laura were saying about her. Olivia never did anything to hurt me, and she never tried to make me stop being friends with Laura or Felicia. She did warn me several times that Laura and especially Felicia were just using me and that they weren’t really my friends at all.

I did notice that when Felicia was around, Laura tried to impress her, and she didn’t mind humiliating me to do it. But when Felicia wasn’t there, Laura was the way she’d been in middle school. I was clearly Laura’s best friend when Felicia wasn’t present, but, when Felicia showed up, she was suddenly Laura’s best friend – and I was just a peon, an underling, a nobody. Nevertheless, I stuck with them and allowed my friendship with Olivia to become secondary.

In October, I momentarily resurrected my friendship with Olivia. She got her driver’s license, and she began driving us to our Bons Copains meetings. We also started hanging out on the weekends, and this is the time we started driving past Pete’s house. Olivia would bring either her John Denver tape or her Statler Brothers tape, and I was soon singing along to all the songs.

I was anxiously awaiting my sixteenth birthday for two reasons: I’d be able to drive and date. My car – a bright green Barracuda – was already waiting for me. My parents had bought it from my brother Rick just for me. None of my other friends had their own car, so I felt very lucky. The date – a sailor named Greg that my mom met at the beauty shop – was also waiting for me. He kept begging my mom to let him take me out before I turned sixteen because he was going to transfer just before Christmas. She relented two weeks before my birthday.

I hadn’t met Greg, but my mom told me that he was cute and nice. I soon learned that my mom didn’t know everything. We were going to go out on Friday night. I put on an attractive outfit and waited with growing anticipation. He was late. I waited two hours, and he never showed up. I didn’t know whether to be devastated or humiliated. I put on my nightgown and stared out the window. The ringing phone startled me. It was Greg.

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