Where did you go? Part 8

When the turntable skips on your favorite song. Your past gets revealed every time.

Patrick Olson
6 min readNov 6, 2020
Photo by Lee Campbell on Unsplash

The one friend that had a child already. Well, his girl and sibs, along with friends, were already stripping. I went on ahead and called them up and told them how my neighbor friend girl is ready to join in. He said, alright now, remember to get the right shoes and a few nice outfits along with the twenty-dollar stage buy-in fee. All the dancers have to pay for the buy-in. That gives them the right to be dancing the night away for the person supplying the money that they are making.

I was like, sure no problem, I let my other friend know right away. So when I got off the phone with him. I told the other what he needed to know and asked him if it was alright if Michelle stayed with his girlfriend until about nine in the morning. I was getting mighty nervous about driven already without my driver’s license.

They were alright with it as we planned on hooking back up around seven o’clock at night so I could be at work by eight to get out on the road, and driven to make me some money in case the ideal of my girl working wasn’t going to work out ultimately.

All I know is I had my sports car that draws the attention of the law and an SUV that I was letting a friend borrow. I had to be careful as my driver’s license was suspended now. I have been working as a cab driver for over a week or so with suspended driver’s license.

Michelle may or not want to be around me with just my government benifits. We never talked about kids at all. That is something I will never know about with Michelle unless I could find her. I know my friend with a kid collected benifits, along with drug dealing.

However, he was making it with the help of his family and friends he had with all that. My other friend was clueless about what he was going to do to keep his. It was all basically in the hands of the girls from here on out. A life I never before fully ventured in. This time I have two friends in the same boat that I was in with no driver’s license and young girls.

The night was sweltering as tips were coming at me five dollars at a time. That was on top of the fair that went with the initial ride I gave to them. Then all of a sudden, that was when doing the same ole illegal sound game to an end, over by the college bars, I had to wait for the college kids.

They weren’t even ready, so I had to go in and get them from the bar. I turned my headlights out of natural effect. Then when I came out, I started the cab without turning on my headlights. Then down around the corner with them college kids, I went down past another strip of bars made for college kids with my passenger windows down.

They went on yelling hip hop hello to you all. At that moment, I wasn’t mad at all. It wasn’t until a man know as the law turned on his siren to pull us all over. That was how the cab company found out that I have been dring without a license, lost my job.

The night went by fast as it was now two A.M. in the morning on a Friday night. I sure wish we would have planned to take them, girls, stripping instead of waiting for a Saturday night to start them. I called up my friend’s girlfriend to get ahold of Michelle, where she was staying the night.

I was so embarrassed to tell her I was walking back to the cab yard to get my sporty T-top sports car that I wasn’t legally allowed to drive for the next few years of my life. By the time it was three A.M., I had Michelle back with me as I was humiliated, along with being upset to lose such an easy job, and all that money I was going to be making right away.

When we got to the house, I admit I wanted to make love with her. However, that isn’t what happened. I started yelling at her to the point I was going to hit her. She went running out of my room and up out of the basement. I think she had been scared to be around me for a long while now.

A few hours later, my mother comes home, and I had to tell her sometime about whats been going on. Once she found out that tonight was the last night of me working. She said, get out of my house right now. How could a mother be so evil to her child? I can see why my father left her. She was mean as if it was going out of style.

I wasn’t sure what to do as Michelle ended up at my one friend with a child. My other one came to my mother’s house a few hours later, wondering what went on. I was so full of depression that we decided to wait until Wednesday night to start the girls stripping.

Out of anger, I went and took back my SUV from my other friend because his mother worked with my mother, and I could not this happen anymore. We stayed the next two nights at my friend’s place who had a kid. Then comes Monday, I took the SUV to the scrap yard and straight junked it without thinking about using it for her to get me to another job when one comes around.

Also, on Monday, my mother was so serious that I contacted my mental health facility and asked them for some help. They said they have a set of apartments that are there to help. All they want in a situation like this is what you got for the first month. The security deposit is paid for in the months to follow.

We were in that apartment for one whole day with nothing. Then come nightfall Michelle without warning, just disappeared. I didn’t see that coming as I didn’t even do anything at that time, and she still took off. The next day I called my mom and asked her if she calmed down any. She went on ahead and answered once she heard that Michelle took off. I told her I didn’t want to stay with her anymore because she gets to ticked off.

She ended up doing something she was usually against, and that was to step up and spend on something. It was several things for the kitchen. The Mental health facility gave help on some furniture that an older man with a truck from the neighborhood helped move in for me.

That wasn’t over, yet I had less than a week to go then I was on house arrest. The worst part is my mother worked for that facility. I was going to have to deal with her, along with her co-workers, for the next thirty days. To keep my self from driving, I went to one of the young drug dealers and got the best deal I could on my modern-day chariot with T-tops and that sporty gray look for whatever I could get.

After I did all the dope up, I went out for a walk and ran right into that same crowd of people that was getting fresh with Michelle one night. However, this time they were with an old friend of mine. He was on his way to jail and asking if his girl could stay with me a while. I said, sure, why not. I could use some company.

The next day I start house arrest with the phone in Michelle’s name. I went on down, looking in another direction away from my mother. That was embarrassing for me to get seen like that.

Well, the next day came quickly, and guess what happened next. Little dear sweet, beautiful Michelle came a calling finally after a few more than a few days later. That’s when she found out that my friend’s girl was there with me. She hung up the phone fastly as I didn’t have time to call her back. Once I got the number, the phone line was dead.

She had my services disconnected as she probably thought I had a new girlfriend. I didn’t know how to get back to either spot where her mothers lived. Even five years ago, which was fifteen years later, the other people she knew never seen her again, Michelle, where forth art thou. I am somewhat on top of everything now. However, my last girl would stop whoring either, and now I was hoping you might be ready to settle down!

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Patrick Olson

Stories from me come from living in a small metropolitan community. Life seems to change all the time. I hope you enjoy them all as they are all real.