What Goes Around Comes Around

August 1994

I was ready to go back to school, ready to be the sorority 's it girl for the last time. Girls wanted to be me, hang out with me, go to the mall with me, and just be my bestie. Only that was reserved for Ney-Ney, or Renee. We were the It Girls. Christine and Renee. Inseparable. I had a good summer. Gary, the next door neighbor who looked just like Johnny Depp got married and we all went to that. I got drunk and got some ideas as for our summer 1995 wedding.   The first Saturday in July to be correct.   It was going to be at Old Mill United Methodist Church.  I had weekends at the lake as my mom got me in no to the county for a little part time gig until August 1 and now it was days by the pools, as my boyfriend went home to the east coast for a few days. He came over and stayed I. The cabana, and when my parents were asleep, I would fuck him.  He looked just like Matt Damon and he was from Chesapeake, so lots of fishing days with him. He was back for one last hurrah with his mom and dad, but he was moving here.  He mentiesd he would miss the waters, but two weeks a summer, he was going back east. I lived on"The Boulevard" in a huge sprawling ranch built in the late 1940's, as my dad was a lawyer and my mom worked for the county part time. We lived well. It was a day out by the pool, talking in the phone to Ney-Ney about the upcoming retreat. Epsie was cleaning like a madwoman. Epsie lived with us during the week and then went home to her husband Roger on Daisy street. She was kind of like my mom and told me like it was. I wished I would have listened.

"Yeah, and Susan Gray broke up with Trent this summer. I hear she is kind of crazy now. Well, when you are ugly you have to expect that,". I told Renee.
"Yeah. She was so gung ho about him."
"Well, when love doesn't come to you easily, you do get excited. God, I miss Phil. However, she said he is going to bring some fish back for my dad, fresh from Chesapeake. I never thought I would fall for a hospitality major but I see him in a major restaurant. The Slab is interested."
"Yeah, me too, you are the example of every gal to follow in Gamma Beta."
"It's so hard though. I mean I am the trendsetter. I set the dating standard. Not even the president can do that."
"Yeah and you are my best friend."
"I am so honored."

They talked some more about people. Epsie came out and talked to her. She liked Christine.  She really did.  She was her blonde haired blue eyed daughter.  She said, "I hear you talk sometimes and I hope your life goes well for you, but you know what you say and do comes back to you tenfold."
"Oh Epsie! I was just funnin'."
"I just hope that one day you see past all of this and see who you really are."
"Yeah."

Epsie was always so deep.   Epsie went back in the house and cleaned her room.  It was always a mess and a hundred dollar dress was rumpled in the corner.  "That darn Christine!"  She would say,  but her mother did the same things, but they paid her well and she got to send her daughter to a better school and get her English degree and son played football for Notre Dame. Christine didn't even know there wheee black Catholics.  Epsie laughed at  that one.   They went to St. Paul's.   She was grateful to Frank and the older Christine.  They were good people to her and her family.  "That damn kid,"   She told herself over and over. 

    Norma was up.  I heard her splash in the pool next door. She was Gary's mom.  His dad passed away.  She was a Marilyn Monroe look alike and had a surprise son in 1963.  He was in investments or something.  He was cute.  He was always cute to me.  I used to watch him with his dates, and I heard flesh pounding flesh by their poolside from 1978 to the time he married.  Gary had a way with the girls, but Gary, like me would have bad luck befall him, but at that moment in 1994, we were Livingg the good life. 

   
     "Christine, phone," Epsie said.  "It's Phil."
"Hello."
"Hey, Susie-Q!  What's up?"
"A nice, blue pool.  You?"
"Fishin with pops on the ocean in a few.  You have to get used to this blue.   Epsie seems a bit bitchy today.  You being mean to her."
"She said I talk about people too much."
"You kinda do, but I love ya.  I am willing to marry ya."
"I know.  So, when will you be here to stay?"
"When school starts.   Just hang on, baby."
"It's so hard."
"You should have worked longer."
"But I have to have my pool time and 8-4:30 cuts into that."
"Yes, my pampered princess.  While I am at the dock gassin' up boats, there you are."
"You know you love me."

   She was rude and she was son rude to Susan Gray.   Phil could nit figure out why.  She was also not invited to the wedding. "Only sisters with money and I. Like," she told him one night when they did the invites. Phil. Was baffled. She had a darling figure and at times, he "thought" of her.  Sometimes, he wished she was Christine's age and maybe he would have asked her out instead of Christine,  but Susan came from another school and pledged last fall.  She hung on Christine's every word, but lately Christine has lost favor with her, so she's being mean to her.  He wanted to tell her to stop on the 4th, but he knew he wouldn't get the house on North Drive as a wedding gift.  See, Christine was moneyed.  Her dad owned Fortnight, Bader, and Rowe.  He was Charles Fortnight for Christ's sake.  It sort of hurt his heart when Christine was mean to Susan.  They talked about the wedding and that Labor Day weekend they had an appointment.  "It's next June, ya know?"  He said, "I wouldn't miss it for the world."  However, if she met Tom Cruise and they fell in love, he would have been fine with it. It was just too late. He had too much invested to back out and her dad was a lawyer for Christ's sake.