(Un)fortunately stuck with you

Chapter 1 : Remincising "good" times

Every single time someone asks me about my childhood, I always replied with two words. Carter Anderson. Why? because he was the only one that gave me such undivided attention that I simply got annoyed. The things he did boiled my blood to vapours. You know the saying of "forgive and forget" well, that is utter bullshit between him and I.

I remember vividly in grade 4 when he embarrassed me in front of the whole class. While I was sleeping in class ( which I shouldn't have) he had tied my shoelaces together. When the teacher told me to wake up and go in front to solve the mathematical problem, I stumbled and fell face flat, kissing the ground. The whole class became a zoo full of animals. They cackled and laughed so loudly while the teacher tried to hush them.

I immediately got up, untied my shoelaces and marched towards Carter who was still laughing his head off.  "YOU DID THAT DIDN'T YOU?" The whole class went dead silent and Carter stopped laughing. He looked up at me, "It was FUNNY. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN HOW U FELL" he continued to laugh and the class followed him after. I could still remember clenching my fits and resisting the strong urge to treat his face like a punching bag. Well, at least got detention for it. That was just one of the many horrid things he had done to me. The list just goes on.

But all those are just memories now. I moved out of the neighbourhood at 12, after mom and dad divorced. I had moved out with mom. Elated was all I felt at that moment. I was finally moving away from Carter Anderson. But sometimes, JUST SOMETIMES, I missed him. He pops up in my head from time to time but not often ( thank god ).

Here in my new neighbourhood, no one disturbed me, it was peaceful. But what was disturbing was how much my mom changed, she always brought home different men at night, every night. I always had to take care of myself. But luckily, I adjusted well. I'm not a popular kid in school but also not completely invisible.

Now I'm a year 1 University student, 18 years old. Currently I am clearing out my old clothes from when I was a little girl and thats how I started reminiscing "good" times that were shared between me and Carter Anderson.

My mom said that she wanted to hold some garage sale so she told me to go through my old stuff and see if I could give anything to her. Remerging through boxes of old clothings was like walking down memory lane. Like for example, my fur jacket phase. I would always wear them even when it was summer. That's where memories of Carter flood in.

"POLAR BEAR! How ridiculous, its burning out here but you're acting like we're in the north pole"

I don't know why 11 year old me was annoyed by him calling me a polar bear, if anything I should have been happy about it. Polar bears are cute.