Stung
[ track #1 | W.A.S.P. "Murders In The New Morgue (Chainsaw Charlie)"
[ track #2 | W.A.S.P. "Blind In Texas"
[ track #3 | W.A.S.P. "I Wanna Be Somebody"
[ track #4 | W.A.S.P. "Wild Child"
[ track #5 | W.A.S.P. "Hold On To My Heart"
[ track #6 | Judas Priest "Electric Eye"
[ track #7 | White Zombie "Super Charger Heaven"
[ track #8 | Chevelle "The Clincher"
[ track #9 | Apocalyptica "Path Vol. 2"
[ track #10 | Gretchen Wilson "I Don't Feel Like Loving You Today"
[ track #11 | Megadeth "A Tout le Monde"
Wed, 3/8/06: Don't remember jack
Thursday, 3/9/06: Woke up at regular time for the first day all week, 5 AM sharp. Loaded the truck with my school clothes, an extra pair of boxers, my swimming trunks (100 otton camo pants cut off just below the knee caps), my Geometry book and binder, sunscreen (which I didn't use but did not get burnt for once), and my book bag.
Then I headed out to pick up Megan (Weaver) and Marques. Got them, went up to Wal-Mart to wait for everybody else. Snapped some pictures while we waited, somehow Billy managed to stop at Wal-Mart and get Justine's bathing suit and then slip out undetected. I saw a truck I thought looked and sounded like Billy's but it was from a long distance so I couldn't really tell.
'Bout 7:30 I was startin' to get mad, so I had Megan call Billy's cell 'cause I didn't feel like talkin'. Justine answered, turns out they had went to Hippie Beach without us and were there waiting, Megan gave her an earful about it because none of us three knew the way to Hippie. Justine put Billy on the phone, I dunno how I kept from cussing him out 'cause I was P-I-S-S-E-D. I yelled at him and such, "Billy what the fuck dude? I told you to meet us at Wal-Mart, I thought we were clear on that" he started giving me directions and all that nonsense.
We'd of been there alot sooner if Shipyard Rd actually had a street sign. Billy, Anthony, and Justine were standing outside Billy's Silverado waitin' on us. Billy led the wait, Justine and Megan were gonna walk there but the trail was long, I said fuck that and made 'em sit in the bed of the truck. Things picked up when we got there, soon as Marques got out and the girls jumped outta the bed I started doin' a donut around this burn pile just to mess with Billy a bit.
When I stopped it he goes "You want me to show your ass up?" and I just smirk and go "Who said I was makin' a challenge? I was just spinnin' my tires a little bit good buddy" he just laughed and shook his head. I put on my trunks and such (I was in street clothes), got out, snapped some more pictures then decided I'd take me a dip in the water to see how it was. I've never been one for the whole sticking the foot in to check the temp, quickest way to get used to it is to jump right in (I know this because I have a pool and therefore have tested both ways).
Rather than just jump in though, a rope swing caught my eye, as well as two trees which had 2x4 sections nailed into the trunk so you could climb up easily, I was gonna jump off the highest part but the floorboard they'd made was broke and wobbly so I wasn't above to jump off that so I went down a little bit back to the one that wasn't broken and swung out. Did a Tarzan yell and anchor dropped into the water. I jumped right back out
Damn water was cold, next time I'll wait 'til the afternoon when the sun has warmed the water up just a little bit. Speakin' of the sun, I didn't put on no sunscreen and I didn't get the 'least bit red which is really unusual. We didn't get to swim for maybe 30 minutes and we got there at 8. School took in at 9:30, so we started loadin' up. Billy's truck wouldn't start so I gave him a jump off, still wouldn't turn over.
He fiddled with the starter a bit, she started right up. We hauled ass through the trails, because the fender flares stick out so far on my truck they caught a tree so I ended up scuffing the bottom portion of my rear passenger side a bit but I didn't care, needs a new paintjob anyway plus it's a Chevrolet truck, specially made for taking punishment and still drivin' just as smooth right afterward.
Upon returning to school, me and Billy decided to go to the gym with Justine (Megan went to her first block and Marques I think went to the ROTC room), so we posed as Juniors and signed our names as two our buddies: Bubba and Woody. Formal names being Michael Leverett and James Reymundo, I signed as Bubba and Billy was Woody. As we were walkin' over to the bleachers Billy was saying how if our assistant principal Mr. Lafitte saw that he'd probably have a heart attack, good riddance to that monkey lookin' bastard.
Sat and did nothin' 'til the bell rang to go to first block, rest of the day was about the same, all downhill after Hippie. We only did work in my first and fourth block classes, so I got to take a much needed break. I was thinkin' about Hippie the whole day, I want another shot at that rope, see if I can't do a front or back flip off it, water's deep enough so I know I won't hurt myself.
After school I was gonna make up a test in Mr. Kiser's class but everybody was gonna retake it Monday anyhow, plus I had to take Megan and Marques home, didn't wanna make 'em wait so I said screw it. Took Megan home and Marques to the Compass bank out in Tillman's corner. Was gonna use the remaining daylight to wash my truck, but Mary was over because she and Mike were havin' another of their rounds.
She wanted me to take her home, only got the truck vacuumed 'cause I had to run her and the boys plus Little Mike's friend Jeremy out there in the Honda, by the time I got back it was supposed to storm so I had to put off the washing of my precious Copperhead. I swear I can't wait 'til I get me a work truck so I can keep Copperhead clean all the time and wash my work truck like once or twice a month if even that.
Somebody rear ended Maw but only left a small scuff that she thinks can be buffed out so she didn't file it on the woman's insurance, sometimes Maw's too nice for her own good, but like Grandmother like Grandson I suppose. The winds were up to 45 MPH, street lights were getting knocked around like nothin'.
By 8 PM I was hella tired and soon after, stone cold asleep
Friday, 3/10/06: Sum bitch...I dunno what was longer, the day or the night on this one. We didn't do anything in first or second because we weren't in either class long, third block was EMPTY I mean there were only 7 out of 30 people there, everybody skipped. Billy wasn't even there, so I was pretty much bored out of my mind the entire time. Fourth block we did work as usual, me and Olivia got kicked out for talking, we stayed outside a good 20 minutes atleast. Mrs. Thomas was being so damned grouchy
Came home after school, fooled and tooled on the comp for a little bit. Ashley (Arnold) finally got online so she, Kerby, and myself got to progress a little bit with the story we were working on, but I had to cut the session short as Megan wanted me to meet her and Marques up at Fire Mountain. I love my cousin to death and I wanted to get outta the house anyway so I went out there, we ate like crazy, or I should say Marques and I ate like crazy, Megan didn't eat too much.
It's really weird sometimes how much me and her are alike...she even has her steaks prepared just like mine, Medium Well. From Fire Mountain we went across the street to Wal-Mart, 'cause it's like I always say "When all else fails, go to Wally World" we looked around in electronics and then at some baby clothes because they have a friend whose pregnant and they wanted to get her something. Marques made a joke saying to keep it simple if him and her ever had a baby girl they'd just name it girl, that REALLY upset Megan, to the point she was in tears.
I kept telling her he didn't mean it, it was just a joke and all that but she said she was tired of him joking about things like that. I dunno, I suppose it's a early-mid teen years thing you go through, I remember having plenty crazy emo moments myself when I was 15. So like everything else, I suppose I can just say that it runs in the family (I find myself saying that alot when I'm with her). After Wal-Mart I came on home, wasn't here very long when Woody called me from Billy's cell wanting me to meet them up at the McDonald's here on DIP. I like like not even a mile away so I figure "Eh what the hell"
When they got there it turned out Woody's friend Houston, Mikey Rotter, his girlfriend Tiffany, and her friend Lauren were ridin' with Woody. Mikey was apparently glad to see me, dude's my friend and all but I can't say I'm ever glad to see him. Because McDonald's was closed and Woody was hungry, I suggested we go to Krystal's on Hwy 90 because that's the only place open that late. So everybody mounted up, Mikey and Tiffany came with me because they said Woody's Blazer smelled like ass (a fact I'm well aware of).
We made it there before Billy and Woody even though we stopped for a good 15 minutes to look at Mikey's wrecked Camaro, we never saw it but he was about to start doing his usual stupid shit and break into their shop, his reasons were "They got my property in there" and all this shit and I told him "That's still breaking and entering, now come the fuck on" he actually listened to me which was a shocker 'cause that boy don't listen to a damn soul.
Made it to Krystal's but no sign of Woody's Blazer or Billy's Silverado, I kinda figured somethin' was up but I sucked up the moment anyway and left Billy a voice mail raggin' on him about I got there before him even though I stopped for a couple minutes, just to get to him a bit 'cause we tend to do that kinda stuff to eachother. Mikey started fiddlin' with my truck because of the taillights staying on, he figured he fixed the problem, can't wait to tell Mr. Fix It that he was wrong again, not to mention the jackass stuck his finger in my tape player so now every time I turn on the radio it tries to play a tape when it's empty so it makes alot of annoying racket.
Billy called saying he was overheated, needed water asap, so we went to Mikey's Grandpa's car lot and got some big 5 gallon drums of water. Took the water to him, had him put it in then we headed back to his Dad's place where we figured out Woody had way too much to drink so we tried taking his keys from him. Well he came up behind me when I went for him and threw his arms around my neck, started chokin' me.
He wasn't applying enough pressure to do real damage, but he was slowly cuttin' off my air, so my first plan was to hip toss him to the ground but I couldn't get a good enough grip on his arm. Alright, plan B: I was gonna grab his legs and knock him off his feet, just let myself fall on top of him and then just start elbowing him in the gut 'til he let go and then go blow for blow until I got him down. I had grabbed hold of his left leg and was about to get the other to drop him when Billy split us up and said there'd be no fighting tonight.
Billy and I started talking to him about his drinking, how it was getting out of hand and everything, he admitted he had a drinking problem. Eventually he started crying, talking about everything was going on in his life, I ain't never seen a grown man cry outside a funeral. So I grabbed him and hugged him to me, let him cry and I told him "I love you man, you're my brother. You, me, and Billy we're all three brothers. We don't wanna have to bury your ass neither you understand?" when I let go he told us about how he almost committed suicide last night when he was starring down the barrel of a .45, I told him I know how he felt and he said I didn't.
Woody had stretched out my Beatles shirt so I took it off, threw it in the truck, I was walkin' around damn near rest of the night half naked. Gets mighty cold after awhile, eventually it was like at Hippie Beach and I probably coulda cut through a frozen piece of meat with my nipples, damn things were harder than steel.
Next came the subject of his best friend, I fired back saying how I'd lost my best friend too and under alot worse circumstances than his, his died in a car wreck and mine got shot in the chest so he couldn't tell me that I didn't know what that kinda pain felt like. Billy and I took him inside, made everybody else stay out while we showed Woody to Wild Bill (Billy's Dad) and explain the situation so we could keep Woody there and all.
After that I started running everybody home, first was Tiffany and Lauren. Just before I dropped 'em off Tiffany asked me if I would date Lauren, I thought about it for a second, first thing popped into my head was that I'd be betraying the girl I love but she has a boyfriend and she didn't exactly tell me to wait for her. I chose to do so, and it's been a month; I haven't given up on her but I also didn't wanna be alone. So, I accepted Tiffany's proposal and got together with Lauren. I don't think we'll be together for very long but we'll get to the reasons for that assumption in the Saturday section.
Came back to Wild Bill's, got Houston and took him home, by now I'm runnin' low on gas, I mean really low like damn near on E and it's 3 AM Saturday morning so no gas stations are open. I only knew of one that I was for sure would be open, the BP on Airport Blvd and it was, unfortunately my dumbass forgot my wallet when I left the house so Mikey and I had to come to my place and get both my wallet and empty some of our gas jugs. My S-10's tank will hold 14 gallons, I put 5 gallons in from a jug so we had almost half a tank, more than enough to get back to Billy's and go fill up in the mornin' 'cause me and Mikey both were wrecked.
Saturday, 3/11/06: We finally got back to Billy's about 3:30-4 AM, he was already asleep and left the door unlocked for us, Woody was passed out when we came back earlier for Houston. So me and Mikey picked a couch each and went our asses to sleep, phone alarms woke us up at 6 because we were gonna go pick up the girls, I turned mine off and went back to sleep. Mikey said he woke me up again at 7:30 but I don't remember that, he finally got me up at 8:00, Wild Bill and Billy were eating breakfast.
First thing we did was go to my place to get some food 'cause we were starving, Curly (Mikey) wanted to fix his hair and such 'cause he's just a pretty boy like that. Still makes me wonder how I wound up hangin' with somebody like that because I generally dislike dudes who are all high maintenance about themselves, me it's just take a shower, put on your DO and clothes, walk out the fuckin' door.
Anyway we got here, I cooked up some pizza rolls, we ate those bitchs, I brushed my teeth and mouth washed and off we went to pick up the girls. This girl Juanita was with Lauren and Tiffany, Tiff was planning on setting her up with Billy, girl likes to play matchmaker I reckon. So there we were...five people ridin' in my extended cab truck, still uncomfortable as hell especially 'cause it was hot as hell and I had no AC.
First place we went to was the dog track to meet up with Billy so he could see Juanita, Tiff hooked them up so now nobody is without a girl. Sad thing is, Woody's got a girl and don't want her 'cause he asked if I was dating Lauren last night before we met up at McDonald's because he was hittin' on her and such and he'd of felt bad if he knew we were dating at the time. I told him it was all good, we didn't start dating 'til after we got to Billy's. Boy's makin' passes at girls and got a fianc, don't surprise me though.
After the dog track we went back to Wild Bill's to fix Woody's brakes, now I had three people in the front seat, Woody in the backseat, with Mikey and Tiffany sittin' in the bed. We had a time gettin' that brake pad off, wasn't long before we took off to the Truck stop so Woody could get him some food. Rest of us just kinda looked around. After that we went back to the dog track again because Billy was on break, we got ran off by his boss though, back to his Dad's we went to work on the brakes some more on Woody's Blazer.
Once Wild Bill got there me, Mikey, Tiff, Lauren, and Juanita split for the mall. I was tired of just standin' around, on the way there I tried to get Lauren to speak a little bit because she hadn't talked with me much, asked her what she was into and she just kinda shrugged. She's really shy around me, but I'll be damned if she don't talk up a storm around them girls.
The mall offered a limited amount of entertainment. Lauren pretty much neglected me, only time she spoke was when I spoke to her, the rest of time she was either talkin' to Juanita or Tiffany like I was non-existent, it didn't piss me off but I didn't like it either. I understand you're here with your girlfriends and what-not, but damn balance out conversation between them and me. Then again I should know better: when with girlfriends shopping, boyfriend is only there as an accessory. Maybe if I get her alone, just me and her she'll open to me, 'cause if things are gonna be like that all the time, we'll be over within a week or two.
After we left, Maw called me asking when I was coming home and such. After I got off with her I lied to everybody saying I had to go home and such, I was too damn tired to drive anymore, I needed sleep bad. So I dropped them off at Wild Bill's again for Woody to take them all home, he wasn't there at the time so I waited with them on him. Billy's sister Jennifer came over, reckon she got her license now 'cause she was drivin' her Mom's Explorer.
Mikey pissed me off sayin' how she was a stuck up bitch and all this, I looked over and say "Y'know you are really somethin' sayin' shit like that and standin' in the girl's yard" he snickered like it was a joke, typical Mikey for you. Jennifer ain't never been anything but nice around me, and she ain't never done shit to Mikey either, he's still mad about that one time she got onto Billy for taking him and Stephanie home and saying they weren't a taxi service. Thing is Mikey likes to assume that people have nothing better to do then give him a ride someplace when he needs it and that's something else that often irks me about him. Like to see him get the balls to say that to Billy Bain's face, see if everybody sticks his little smartass in the seat of that Silverado ever again.
I'll say it again from Billy's own mouth, there are two things you do not fuck with him about: his truck and his sister and Mikey's already got a strike on him from Billy about his truck, for him to get strike two would kick him right up to strike three and probably mean him and Billy would get into a fight and there'd be a big mess made out of it. I ain't sayin' shit about it though, I said what I had to say to him and he knows I don't like to hear him sayin' anything about Jenny when she ain't hurtin' nobody.
After Woody and Marshall got there I said my goodbyes, I forgot thank Mr. Billy for allowing everybody to chill at his place like we did the last two days. Not many parents would do that especially when their own kid isn't there. Left Billy a voice message telling him to do that for me though, I always liked his Dad.
Mikey and Woody were wanting to go campin' but I just made it out to Mikey before I left like I'd be asleep the rest of the night, I'd had enough of those two. They're both alright but they're the type of people that while you can have fun with 'em, they can also annoy you and piss you off. Mikey does it just tinkering with everything like he does: turning the bass of my radio up to full when he knows the speakers are blown, then when he stuck his finger in the tape player and fucked it up; then there's the only time he ever seems to get in touch with me is when he wants somethin' and it always involves me drivin' all over God's green earth and runnin' myself ragged 'til I damn well can't see the road I'm drivin' on anymore; lastly we come to the Jennifer situation because I consider her a good friend. Woody just drives me crazy always complaining about shit, how tough he's got it and all this, he's gotta be the first emo redneck.
I love 'em both, they're my buddies but I want my alone time, I don't like havin' somebody up my ass 24/7 unless I get along with 'em damn near perfect. Now Billy, I can hang with Billy day in and day out, I just can't do it with Mikey or Woody, get on my damn nerves too bad.
Back at the house though I ate me some ham then slept for two hours before I got up and started getting ready for Miso, I missed it last weekend but I wasn't missin' it this weekend, I missed my boys the Crawley Bros. too much. Got there late 'cause I woke up at 6 (usually I'm there by then) and I had to get a shower and such so I ended up makin' it there around 8:30. Mat was in something besides all black for once, wish I'd of had my camera on me, I'd of taken a picture 'cause that's the first time he didn't have any black clothes on.
They left about 2 hours later, the meeting was running longer tonight because they were showing movies but I left at 12, I still haven't fully recovered from driving around like a trucker on so little sleep and in stifling heat. I have go get that AC fixed this week.