Chapter 12 - My Book

While living with Walter and working at the Kangaroo I had a drinking problem. Walter worked for Budweiser, John D Eiland. We always beer in the fridge and liquor in the freezer. I drank Jim Beam and Budweiser and Walter drank Bud Light and Crown Royal.

I also had a problem with snorting Hydrocodone. And a problem with cutting myself. I went through many girlfriends while living with Walter but I only mention a few becauae the rest aren't really worth mentioning and I probably couldn't remember all their names anyway.

Two people lived with Walter and I throughout the time I stayed with Walter. One being Laura who was friend's with Amy and the other being Layla. I had met Layla while working at the Kangaroo. She was one of my customer's and one day I yelled over the loudspeaker that she was beautiful or hot or something to that effect and she came inside and we talked and became friends. Her and I used to drink and cut together. I think we were bad influence on each other or maybe I was a bad influence on her. Years later Layla was pregnant and ended up getting hit by a driver who stole a car and she lost her baby. I remember it was rough on her. After that Layla changed probably for the better but she stopped talking to me. Probably because she had grown up and she thought I was the same old me which I wasn't. I saw her a year ago but she didn't really say much to me. She kinda avoided me. Not sure what I did to her but oh well. I suppose the friendship wasn't worth saving anyhow. We were and are just on different paths now and I guess we weren't meant to be friends.

Chapter 13 - My Book

So after Amy and then Pam I still was living with Walter. For some reason I ended up moving out and in with Pam and her ex who became her girlfriend again Diana. I lived with them in Mount Crawford in Diana's family's trailer. It had land on the property and her family lived down the road. I worked at Duke's Liberty at that time also. Then I ended up moving back in with Walter. I hated living with Pam and Diana cos I felt like a third wheel. And I hated working at Duke's Liberty because the place was owned by Koreans and they made me work in the Blimpie part of the store instead of on the register in the gas station part of the store. I didn't like making subs and I was too slow anyway.

After I moved back in with Walter I started dating Julie. That was a disaster because Julie's life was chaos like mine. She ended up cheating on me with her ex Patrick and moved to Buena Vista with him. That is when I met Sara who was friends with Julie.

When I started talking to Sara I was working at the Kangaroo Express in Staunton and then got transferred to the Kangaroo in Mint Springs. I didn't end up working there long. Sara used to come and visit me at work. She worked at Carded Graphics at the time which is where her mom worked also.

Mom got me into Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center. I had gotten the letter that I had been accepted as a student. I ended up qutting Kangaroo and then got a job through Manpower doing flagging. The flagging job was only a week assignment but that was okay because I was about to start school.

Chapter 11 - My Book

While I was living with Walter I met Amy. She was friends with my friend Laura. Laura apparently liked Amy but at the time I didn't know that. Laura babysat for Amy. Amy had a son. Amy and I started talking amd then started aeeinf each other. We fell in love. We spent every.minute together that we could. She lived with her boyfriend Joe. Man was he a psycho. I was working at the Kangaroo in Staunton and Amy would always come see me. She brought out the sweet romantic side in me. One time I got her flowers and Joe found out boy was he pissed. I didn't care.

Amy worked at Tractor Supply so I got a second job working there. One time I was sitting in my car getting ready to go into work and I had my window down cos I was smoking. Joe walked up to my window and spit in my face. That is considered assault and I could've gotten him for that but Amy begged me not to so I didn't. I would have done anything for her. We emailed each other every minute we could. And we talked on Myspace a lot. We spent every chance we got together.

Our relationship got to the point where Amy had to make a decision whether she would be with me or be with Joe. She said she didn't want to hurt Joe. I ended up leaving her to go out with a girl named Pam who looked like Brittany Spears. Stupidest thing I did because Pam ended up cheating on me with her ex. I screwed up a good thing with Amy. Yes to this day I still do have love for Amy and occassionally think about her but I haven't talked to her in awhile. I could have had a good thing but everything happens for a reason.

After years went by and I talked to her again she told me that Joe had been cheating on her the whole time. I thought he was psycho and so did Walter. Joe used to drive by our apartment and throw beer cans in our yard and throw beer bottles against the side of our apartment breaking them and leaving glass in the yard. He seemed like a psycho stalker always following me I guess because he thought Amy was with me. One time he almost ran me off the road. But even through all that I still wanted to be with Amy.

Chapter 10 - My Book

So I ended up meeting Walter, actually we had gone to school together. Walter always came in the Kangaroo. Him and I became best friends. Walter had a one bedroom apartment in Staunton. I ended moving in with him. Mind you Walter was gay. We used to go clubbing at Club 216 which was a gay club. I had been there before with Petra. During that time I worked at the Charlottesville Kangaroo. I didn't much like the store but I liked working for Heather. I didn't work at that location long before I was transferred to the Mint Springs store.

I lived with Walter in his one bedroom apartment, I had a futon that I had gotten from Rent A Center and stuck it in the living room and that's where I slept. Walter and I always had fun together, we were the best of friends. We did everything together and went everywhere together. We had some good times but like I said a lot I don't remember. I am piecing together what I remember.

One time it snowed and at that time I was driving Mom's Ford Taurus. It snowed at our apartment and I got stuck in the snow. Walter's Neon wasn't stuck but mine was. Walter ended up getting me unstuck from the spot though thankfully. He went forward and backward and forward until it wasn't stuck anymore.

I became friends with a girl named Missy on Myspace. We talked a lot and become friends from there. I don't talk to her anymore now actually but we were friends for years after that. I was on Myspace a lot and so was Walter and we always took photos of ourselves and uploaded to Myspace. Walter had a desktop computer that we used. I eventually got a laptop from Rent A Center. At the time it was a brand new Sony laptop that had just came out so I had the top of the line. I still have that laptop but it needs a new battery which I have yet to buy. It is still in good condition though pretty much except it is missing a key on it because Zeus knocked the key off and I couldn't get it back on.

I dated several people while living with Walter but no one really worth mentioning because those relationships didn't last long. There was Sarah who worked at the cemetery and Julie who I am still friends with but she cheated on me but we are still friends. And then there was Kim that went to school at the Staunton School For Cosmetology. Then there was Amy, the second girl that I was in love with. I could write so much about Amy and I think I will tell you about her because she is definitely worth mentioning. I have lots of memories about her. However she had a boyfriend and he was psycho and found out about us.

Chapter 9 - My Book

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.