"Shadows of the past..."
I shifted through old papers that weren't orginized even before I moved. I found an old pink piece of paper with a name and telephone number on it. "Who the hell's Samyra Rivera?" I asked aloud to no one. I went to searchbug.com and did a reverse lookup on the number...once I got the address, it hit me like a ton of bricks...
Spring 1992...Junior year in High School.
She was a freshman, shoulder length hair, dimples, barely spoke english, she used to say "yellow" and it sounded like "Jello"...Oh my god she was pretty. I only saw her in one class...what the hell was it? "Seqential Math 3?". She had a thing for Jon Secada...I remeber mousing up my hair and memorizing the words to the spanish version of "Just another Day"....I actually sang the whole song with a tape player backing me up in the hallway after class. She was speechless, I then asked her out and her two older brothers, Francisco and Carlos came outta nowhere and beat the hell outta me, and threw me down the 3rd floor back stairwell! I came to and that piece of paper was in my hand...
God.
I can't believe I kept it all these years.
She WAS cute, not "Getting my ass kicked" cute, but still...
I wonder what's she doing now? I never went to any of my High School reunions...the 10th year reunion was 2 years ago...I REALLY hated high school.
After resting a bit, I went to the next biggest task to do...taking the AC out of my window. I had to for 3 years now, and even though it wasn't allowed in mom's high-rise, I wasn't about to leave it to the next fella to enjoy it! Now, I'm no Tool Man, but I do consider myself a "Man-at-Arms" type. If I can do it, I will do it. I just don't do VCR's and Computers, but other home improvements, I depend on nobody. The screws were rusty and needed some juicing up. I didn't have any WD40 so I improvised with some Tinactin foot spray. I had forgotten how heavy the might beast was, but with my best sly stalone grunt, I detached the beast from it's window prison. MY hands were dirty and my body was starting to feel sore, so I took a hot shower to relax.
Looking at everything now, undoing my changes to this place, it takes me back to how proud I was, fixing this place on my own...
Well, I made it this far (*Sighs*), I'm almost ready, the day after tomorrow, THE END begins...
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3 Comments:
At 2:56 PM, kimmyk said…
Could be a beginning. I think ya should look her up...
At 2:13 AM, Rosanna said…
Did you grow up in Yonkers?
At 9:30 AM, Les said…
No, I worked up there thou...
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