Random Memories.

I was sitting in the truck coming home from work when I just randomly remembered a very mean joke Billy and Bobby Gardella played on me in the 6th grade. I had the biggest crush on Billy, he was in the same homeroom as me, and Bobby was his older brother, two years older than us. I liked them both, but you know the old saying where boys who like girls hurt them? Well, he did.

There was another boy in my class named Travis Dodge, he liked me. We both really liked Harry Potter, and we were probably the smartest kids in our English class. There were dances every Saturday, and I went to all of them with my friends. On this particular night, I was hanging out with a bunch of my friends, having a great time dancing and laughing. My friend Scott told me he had found a flier on the wall that I needed to see. It was an AIM conversation between Billy and "me". The screen name was something like "janicehall" and some random numbers. That's my full name, but that isn't how it is spelled.

Someone had made a fake AIM using my name and had a conversation with Billy, saying all kinds of nasty, untrue things. I later found out that it was Travis, and that he was working together with Billy and his brother. They printed out a few dozen of these AIM "conversations" and posted them all over the hallway and the gym. When I confronted them, they just laughed, and there was nothing I could do except gather my friends and tear down all the papers I could find.

I was so shy... still am. I never hurt anyone, I tried to be friends to everyone, even people I knew didn't like me. I was smart but I never was a show off, I couldn't be. I never thought I would be the target of a mean prank like that.

I don't know why I remembered this, but I did, and it bothers me.
Even after that incident, I still liked both of them. Bobby is a wannabe "rapper" and Billy... don't know, I never really talked to him in high school, despite having known him since the first grade.

It is just really sad, the things that happen to nice people.

My heart goes out to the people of Haiti, an estimated 100,000 dead... so sad.

J