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Authors: Melanie Rose
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something in there will jog your Alzheimer’s,” she joked, wrapping her arm lightly through mines.
We walked back inside the carnival arm-in-arm. We cased the joint and found no sign of Leslie or Garrett anywhere. What I did manage to find however, was far more disturbing.
There standing only ten feet away from me was a boy named Tannon. Close to three inches shorter than me, light-skinned, with a smooth baby face, he was all decked out in tinted sunglasses (at night) and dressed in dark blue from his hat, all the way down to his shoes. He wore his jeans so baggy that I could not even image what kept them from falling to the pavement.
Tannon was completely focused on one of those ridged games where you had to get a softball inside the hole of a big metal milk jug. My breath caught in my throat as I watched him throw his last ball at the narrow opening. I whirled around quickly while the ball was still in midair because all kinds of red flags started going up, prompting me to flee the area.
I didn’t stick around to see what happened next. I didn’t need too, I already knew.
He would make that last shot to win a huge stuffed white tiger and I would know best because that same tiger ended up going home with me tonight after I convinced him to let me have it.
Boys just seemed to give me whatever I wanted back then… no questions asked.
Maya had to run to catch up with me, but I didn’t stop and kept right on speed walking until I reached the parking lot. It took us a while to locate my truck since I had no idea where my younger self had parked it, but once we did, we hopped in and took off.
I was semi aware that Maya kept saying something to me, but I couldn’t quiet my mind down enough to hear her words because the voices in my head were screaming at me to get the hell out of there.
We pulled up outside of her home, cut the engine, and just sat there in the dark. After a minute or so, Maya asked, “Are you going to tell me what in the world that was all about?”
“I just had to get away from there is all.”
“Did you get a bad vibe?”
“Something like that. I saw someone I knew. Someone that wasn’t meant to see me in return, I guess.” I said, shutting my eyes before slumping forward to rest my forehead against the middle of the steering wheel after my head suddenly took on the weight of a large-sized boulder.
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep.
What the hell is that noise, Maya?
Sitting straight up, I glanced around, dazed. I was utterly annoyed when I finally figured out that it was my blasted alarm clock that had lost its damn mind making all that racket. Reaching over, I switched it off, grabbed the phone, and dialed without thinking. “Hello,” a hoarse voice groaned back at me.
“Did I wake you? Sorry, I wasn’t even thinking about the time difference or how early it is over there right now. Go back to sleep and call me back when you can.”
A little embarrassed, I hung up the phone. I would be lucky if I heard back from her at all, I thought to myself a half a second later. Maya really wasn’t a morning person. Besides, I had the distinct feeling that she would be nursing a hangover when she got up and would probably forget that I even called. I guess I was on my own for the moment.
Checking my appointment book, I was psyched to see that no one was scheduled for a massage until 10:00am, giving me plenty of time to make sense out of what happened last night.
Planting myself at my desk, I grabbed my favorite purple pen, a pad of paper, and jotted down the following:
1. Gone no more than two hours
2. Carnival in Panorama City, California
3. Saw Leslie, Garrett, Maya and Tannon
4. Warned Maya not to sleep with Garrett
5. NEVER meet Tannon
Tannon has to be the key this time or maybe Maya was. By running away and never meeting Tannon that night, I could only dream up one meaning... one possible outcome. That I would never know him. Not right then at least or maybe not ever. Was it
We walked back inside the carnival arm-in-arm. We cased the joint and found no sign of Leslie or Garrett anywhere. What I did manage to find however, was far more disturbing.
There standing only ten feet away from me was a boy named Tannon. Close to three inches shorter than me, light-skinned, with a smooth baby face, he was all decked out in tinted sunglasses (at night) and dressed in dark blue from his hat, all the way down to his shoes. He wore his jeans so baggy that I could not even image what kept them from falling to the pavement.
Tannon was completely focused on one of those ridged games where you had to get a softball inside the hole of a big metal milk jug. My breath caught in my throat as I watched him throw his last ball at the narrow opening. I whirled around quickly while the ball was still in midair because all kinds of red flags started going up, prompting me to flee the area.
I didn’t stick around to see what happened next. I didn’t need too, I already knew.
He would make that last shot to win a huge stuffed white tiger and I would know best because that same tiger ended up going home with me tonight after I convinced him to let me have it.
Boys just seemed to give me whatever I wanted back then… no questions asked.
Maya had to run to catch up with me, but I didn’t stop and kept right on speed walking until I reached the parking lot. It took us a while to locate my truck since I had no idea where my younger self had parked it, but once we did, we hopped in and took off.
I was semi aware that Maya kept saying something to me, but I couldn’t quiet my mind down enough to hear her words because the voices in my head were screaming at me to get the hell out of there.
We pulled up outside of her home, cut the engine, and just sat there in the dark. After a minute or so, Maya asked, “Are you going to tell me what in the world that was all about?”
“I just had to get away from there is all.”
“Did you get a bad vibe?”
“Something like that. I saw someone I knew. Someone that wasn’t meant to see me in return, I guess.” I said, shutting my eyes before slumping forward to rest my forehead against the middle of the steering wheel after my head suddenly took on the weight of a large-sized boulder.
Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep.
What the hell is that noise, Maya?
Sitting straight up, I glanced around, dazed. I was utterly annoyed when I finally figured out that it was my blasted alarm clock that had lost its damn mind making all that racket. Reaching over, I switched it off, grabbed the phone, and dialed without thinking. “Hello,” a hoarse voice groaned back at me.
“Did I wake you? Sorry, I wasn’t even thinking about the time difference or how early it is over there right now. Go back to sleep and call me back when you can.”
A little embarrassed, I hung up the phone. I would be lucky if I heard back from her at all, I thought to myself a half a second later. Maya really wasn’t a morning person. Besides, I had the distinct feeling that she would be nursing a hangover when she got up and would probably forget that I even called. I guess I was on my own for the moment.
Checking my appointment book, I was psyched to see that no one was scheduled for a massage until 10:00am, giving me plenty of time to make sense out of what happened last night.
Planting myself at my desk, I grabbed my favorite purple pen, a pad of paper, and jotted down the following:
1. Gone no more than two hours
2. Carnival in Panorama City, California
3. Saw Leslie, Garrett, Maya and Tannon
4. Warned Maya not to sleep with Garrett
5. NEVER meet Tannon
Tannon has to be the key this time or maybe Maya was. By running away and never meeting Tannon that night, I could only dream up one meaning... one possible outcome. That I would never know him. Not right then at least or maybe not ever. Was it
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