The worst year of my life to date was seventh grade. My mom got a job at a Catholic school in Pasadena so my sister and I both went there.
Today Rex picked me up from work and we went to the Saint Arnold Brewery which is literally two minutes from the office I work at. We get inside and we're walking to get a beer and this girl comes up to me. It was this girl named April who I had gone to the catholic school with. She tells me she's there with another girl, Amaris, who also went to school with us and who's mom worked in the front office of the school. I said hello and to both of them and introduced them to Rex and got out of there as soon as I could.
I was immediately flooded with emotions. I started to think back about that school and that year that will forever haunt me. I hated the way all of the other kids treated me. They had all been going to school together since they were three so they had no reason to get to know me or welcome me. When I saw those two girls i immediately started to feel the same way I felt back then when I was just thirteen and trying to deal with the stresses of being a teenager. I felt so insecure and uncomfortable in my surroundings. I just wanted to get outta there.
To try and calm the feeling I decided to drink a beer. I don't drink because I'm trying to get pregnant so I'm really regretting it now. I sat there with Rex and his friend that met us up there and we played dominos at the table right next to the two girls. Less than ten feet away. I couldn't stop thinking about them and that awful place.
Then I remembered the ONLY good thing that came out of that horrible place. My friend Sela. I texted her and she made me feel better.
The story of our friendship is a whole new post of it's own.
To be continued...
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