After I moved back in with Mom and Dad I started smoking again. Kendall and I were still dating but that didn't last. I started talking to a girl named Meagan on Myspace and we eventually started dating. Meagan was sweet and romantic. She lived in Suffolk and came up to see me. I dated her for a couple months but the distance didn't work and I wasn't moving down there.
After I got out of the Army I went back to work at Alcoa. Petra was still working there and had been telling everyone lies about me. I worked there a couple months and quit. I couldn't work with her after all she had done to me.
I went back to work at Kangaroo Express. I liked my job there and I had met some cool people there. Marylou was working there but when they switched over to Kangaroo she left. Her daughter Heather started working there. Heather had another full time job but came to work there part time. She ended up becoming Manager and was then transferred to the Charlottesville store. I ended up following her there. I didn't like the Charlottesville store as much but I liked working with Heather.
So I was working at Kangaroo and living with mom and dad and trying to sort my life back out after the Army and the whole Petra situation. After I got back and went back to work at Alcoa Petra acted like nothing was wrong. As if she hadn't stolen twelve thousand dollars from me and hadn't told lies. I knew otherwise and so did everyone else. They knew she was a liar. So I quit Alcoa and tried to stay away from Petra. I still talked to Al. He brought me some of my stuff that he had snuck out of the house. No clothes though.
A month or two went by and I hadn't talked to Petra and Al. I got a call that Al was in the hospital. So I called him in the hospital but he didn't have much to say. Someone had told him about Petra and I and I guess he believed them and that's why he didn't have much to say to me. The whole Petra and I thing had ended not long after I moved in with them. We were only friends. Not long after that Al was found in the house laying over the bed dead. They say he overdosed on pills but I don't know if I believed it. I believe Petra killed him or gave him too many pills, that's the same thing. Well I ended up talking to Petra. And we went to Al's funeral. It was held in Covington on top of the mountain in the cemetery. Tony and I stood in the back of everybody else and we were dressed in our Army Class A's which are dress uniforms. Since Al was an Army Veteran it was a Military Ceremony. When they played the revelry and did the 12 gun salute me and Tony couldn't hold back the tears. Hence why we were standing in the back because we knew we would cry. Al was like a second father to us and he meant a lot to us. We lost a great man. She ended up selling the house and of course still had Al's truck which was his baby. After that I stopped talking to Petra because I believed or had in my head that she killed Al.
She ended up coming into the Kangaroo one night when I was working and showed me her engagement ring. She was apparently engaged to a guy that worked with us at Alcoa. Al had been gone only two months and she was already engaged. What the fuck. That made me even more suspicious of her and believe she killed Al. The autopsy results were never released but only to Petra and Al's sister. So who knows but I believed what I did for a reason. I was disgusted by her and wanted nothing to do with her.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013
Chapter 7 - My Book
One time Petra and I decided to add a deck onto the back of the house. My money went into that deck also. And I am the one who built that deck. Petra helped a little with it but I eventually ended up finishing it and it looked good.
Al liked to garden and he had cucumbers and tomatoes and all kinds of stuff growing. I decided to grow a Sunflower. That thing kept growing and growing until it was taller then me. I was proud of myself because I hadn't really grown anything before then.
I used to go along with Al to eat breakfast with him and his best friend Ronnie at Armstrongs. They are a great restaurant and home cook their food.
Al loved to fish. He was a bass fisherman and he used to teach disabled kids to fish. I guess that's why we got along so well because he understood me because I had a disability and I loved to fish. And he treated me good, not like someone with a disability. But he was understanding of my disabilities.
Al also had a drinking problem. Petra and I used to find bottles hidden. One time when Al was gone Petra made me go through the house and throw all the bottles away. Whenever Al and I would go somewhere and come home he would pull in the driveway and sit in the truck and drink his liquor before going in. Petra made me do a lot of things I didn't want to do. I guess I could have said no but in a way I was scared of her.
One time I was going through stuff in the attic and I came upon court papers that were Petra's. They were about abuse that Petra's son Tony and her daughter and her exes kids endured. I read about how she used to lock them up in the room and handcuff them to the bed. So I thought, Petra is a child abuser. I wondered why after the abuse Tony had anything to do with her. Her daughter didn't have anything to do with her at all. She scared me, she just had a scary, controling way about her.
When Tony went in the Army Petra got ahold of his bank account and was taking his money. He told me about it and said he had fixed it. She couldn't get his money anymore.
Al liked to garden and he had cucumbers and tomatoes and all kinds of stuff growing. I decided to grow a Sunflower. That thing kept growing and growing until it was taller then me. I was proud of myself because I hadn't really grown anything before then.
I used to go along with Al to eat breakfast with him and his best friend Ronnie at Armstrongs. They are a great restaurant and home cook their food.
Al loved to fish. He was a bass fisherman and he used to teach disabled kids to fish. I guess that's why we got along so well because he understood me because I had a disability and I loved to fish. And he treated me good, not like someone with a disability. But he was understanding of my disabilities.
Al also had a drinking problem. Petra and I used to find bottles hidden. One time when Al was gone Petra made me go through the house and throw all the bottles away. Whenever Al and I would go somewhere and come home he would pull in the driveway and sit in the truck and drink his liquor before going in. Petra made me do a lot of things I didn't want to do. I guess I could have said no but in a way I was scared of her.
One time I was going through stuff in the attic and I came upon court papers that were Petra's. They were about abuse that Petra's son Tony and her daughter and her exes kids endured. I read about how she used to lock them up in the room and handcuff them to the bed. So I thought, Petra is a child abuser. I wondered why after the abuse Tony had anything to do with her. Her daughter didn't have anything to do with her at all. She scared me, she just had a scary, controling way about her.
When Tony went in the Army Petra got ahold of his bank account and was taking his money. He told me about it and said he had fixed it. She couldn't get his money anymore.
Chapter 5 - My Book
The next chapter of my life is what started it all for me really in not trusting people. And began probably me being used or it could have started with others but I think really began here. I was young, dumb and naive at the time. It started with all with Petra, well actually it started with Carol or maybe it began with Tonya who was my first relationship. So it started with Tonya.
I met and became friends with Petra. She worked with me at Alcoa in the warehouse, she was a truck driver. She was 42 at the time and I was around 22 or 23. I started talking to Petra and I guess we started dating or so I had thought. At least that's what she made me believe.
Petra was staying with a guy named Al. She said they were roommates. Well, they ended up getting married. And at the time I was living with Mom and Dad still and started hanging out over Al and Petra's and eventually moved in with them. That was a mistake but at the same time I learned a lot and became close with Al.
I learned a lot of lessons in life after this whole situation for sure. I was used, manipulated and controled. I still worked at Alcoa. Petra and I worked the same shift. I worked a lot of overtime to keep myself busy. I think a lot of the things I did I wouldn't have done if Petra hadn't talked me into doing them. I ended up getting a second job at Etna Gas Station which later changed to Kangaroo Express. I loved my jobs.
Petra was older so she sometimes acted like she was my mother. Al more acted like a grandfather figure or father figure. He was sweet and caring and loving and would do anything to help you. Al was famous for sitting in the kitchen and listening to the scanner. Several times he would fall asleep with a cigarette in his hand and there would be burn marks in the linoleum. And I always had to tell him to go to bed because he had fallen asleep in the chair at the kitchen table.
Petra was a very manipulative person. And very controlling. I was always giving her money and she made more then me, way more. Not to mention she was taking all of Al's money too and using him.
One time a guy from work had given me some Purple Haze from his vacation in Jamaica. Now I didn't know what Purple Haze was but I came to realize it was stronger pot then I had ever smoked. I thought it was laced with something but he said it wasn't. I laid on my waterbed but that made it worse cos the whole room was spinning. Thankfully Petra and Al weren't there they had gone to Al's appointment at the Salem Veteran's Hospital. I called Ashley cos I was freaking out and she tried to calm me down.
While I was living with Petra and Al I eventually realized that Petra and I were nothing more than friends. So I had started talking to this girl named Ashley who was married. Ashley was living in Arizona with her husband Curtis at the time. Ashley was from Houma, Louisianna. Ashley and I started dating and talked on the phone all the time. She would have to go hide away from Curtis to talk to me. I fell in love with her, the first girl I had ever been in love with and we had never even met. We only talked on the phone and the computer and sent pictures back and forth to each other and constantly emailed each other and talked on Myspace. Man was I in love with her and she was absolutely beautiful. I loved everything about her, her voice, the way she talked to me, when she called me baby. Man she made my heart skip a beat. I eventually planned on being with her but it never happened. She did eventually end up leaving her husband and moving back to Louisianna. Her husband Curtis was in the Army. Well, I eventually ended up joining the Army and I think she didn't like that one bit. We ended up for some reason stopped talking and lost touch. And it was heartbreaking. I still think about her sometimes and wonder how she's doing.
I met and became friends with Petra. She worked with me at Alcoa in the warehouse, she was a truck driver. She was 42 at the time and I was around 22 or 23. I started talking to Petra and I guess we started dating or so I had thought. At least that's what she made me believe.
Petra was staying with a guy named Al. She said they were roommates. Well, they ended up getting married. And at the time I was living with Mom and Dad still and started hanging out over Al and Petra's and eventually moved in with them. That was a mistake but at the same time I learned a lot and became close with Al.
I learned a lot of lessons in life after this whole situation for sure. I was used, manipulated and controled. I still worked at Alcoa. Petra and I worked the same shift. I worked a lot of overtime to keep myself busy. I think a lot of the things I did I wouldn't have done if Petra hadn't talked me into doing them. I ended up getting a second job at Etna Gas Station which later changed to Kangaroo Express. I loved my jobs.
Petra was older so she sometimes acted like she was my mother. Al more acted like a grandfather figure or father figure. He was sweet and caring and loving and would do anything to help you. Al was famous for sitting in the kitchen and listening to the scanner. Several times he would fall asleep with a cigarette in his hand and there would be burn marks in the linoleum. And I always had to tell him to go to bed because he had fallen asleep in the chair at the kitchen table.
Petra was a very manipulative person. And very controlling. I was always giving her money and she made more then me, way more. Not to mention she was taking all of Al's money too and using him.
One time a guy from work had given me some Purple Haze from his vacation in Jamaica. Now I didn't know what Purple Haze was but I came to realize it was stronger pot then I had ever smoked. I thought it was laced with something but he said it wasn't. I laid on my waterbed but that made it worse cos the whole room was spinning. Thankfully Petra and Al weren't there they had gone to Al's appointment at the Salem Veteran's Hospital. I called Ashley cos I was freaking out and she tried to calm me down.
While I was living with Petra and Al I eventually realized that Petra and I were nothing more than friends. So I had started talking to this girl named Ashley who was married. Ashley was living in Arizona with her husband Curtis at the time. Ashley was from Houma, Louisianna. Ashley and I started dating and talked on the phone all the time. She would have to go hide away from Curtis to talk to me. I fell in love with her, the first girl I had ever been in love with and we had never even met. We only talked on the phone and the computer and sent pictures back and forth to each other and constantly emailed each other and talked on Myspace. Man was I in love with her and she was absolutely beautiful. I loved everything about her, her voice, the way she talked to me, when she called me baby. Man she made my heart skip a beat. I eventually planned on being with her but it never happened. She did eventually end up leaving her husband and moving back to Louisianna. Her husband Curtis was in the Army. Well, I eventually ended up joining the Army and I think she didn't like that one bit. We ended up for some reason stopped talking and lost touch. And it was heartbreaking. I still think about her sometimes and wonder how she's doing.
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