She had already taken off her face but this is back when I managed her.
She had just won a competition, can't remember which one now.
Well, with a new girlfriend of hers we had issues. Not my friend and I but the new girl friend and I. I am not sure how many ways to say..... we had differences of opinions, irreconcilable differences and the more I got to know her the less I wanted to. I also wanted my best friend to be happy so found a way to step out of the situation which man oh man opened up a whole can of drama that many writers would love as a story plot. Hummm there is a thought. So we ceased being friends but she was always my Sister of heart and I never ever ever allowed anyone to dog her and continued saying that our issues were our own now butt out of it.
After she and her girlfriend split the sheets we continued our separate ways. A whole lot of hurt washed over that bridge for everyone. As far as I was concerned it was a washed out pile of wood and my compartmentalized mind eventually closed the box but I knew... somewhere I knew. She only met the aggressor once and pretty sure it was enough the day she knocked on the door to apologize. To her credit, she took it all... every word of what I had to say until I burned out of things to say about it all. Also any time I call she answers and any time I have asked that we all go to dinner, she has made herself available and even when we went to Missouri on vacation she came up to the cabin for a BBQ even though it was a 2 hour drive each way.
So its been probably 10 months since I've called her. I think she is giving me my space because to push me will only make me run the other way and she knows me well enough to know this. When we talk on the phone it normally is over an hour of pleasant catch me up conversation. Today I called her telling her that she needs to listen to this song because it is just so J Michaels. I listened to Brantley Gilbert's Country Must Be Country Wide and just had to call her.
Now understand my friend is a person of few words but each one is important and she will often say something that she is concerned about being rejected over then gloss over it as was her comment today. "I think I am needing my manager back". "I miss the bookings out of town". Then she quickly moved on with the conversation and so I asked.... "and who would that manager be?" She chuckled and said... there is only ONE. I explained that I'm out of the business and have be off of the circuit since she and I had our falling out then she began teasing me about just showing up here at the house some day. Putting her toes in the water so to speak. I put her on speaker so my Partner could participate in this and we invited her to come on... I have steaks in the freezer and potatoes to fry up (both she and my Partner's favorite meal). We left it there.
So why am I confused? I think it is remembering how hard it was to severe that string between us so long ago, the pain of it and the fear. I am certain that normal people don't feel this way. I sure wish I knew what normal is.
One of the happy days when we were all friends
Between my 2 best friends with my Partner having my
back (the only one I trust to be there).
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