MadMad

 The Introduction: Never Been

The first time. I saw Mad Mad. Friday night late January. On the 29th I had gotten her phone number. From her. Via video chat between her and her best friend Spring.  Spring was sitting in the truck with the cat. Remi.  Her boyfriend. Mad Mad's brother Ted. I worked with Ted. Spent the night on the weekends. 4 or 5 times. Then Mad Mad spent the night. Ted dropped me off and left to get beans. Ted likes beans. I walk thru the front door. The pull back the curtains. There she is. Sitting on the couch I sleep on. Smiling. I was dressed like Prince. Her first impression? I look like I'm from Prince. 

   I sat down on the couch next to her. We talked for hours. 2 or 3 before anyone came back. Just Mad Mad, Spring and myself in the house. Talking. I never let the conversation drop. I picked up the conversation until another co worker and his girlfriend and Ted returned. Ted returned before Josh and Krystal. It was unspoken. We both just shut up. They can never know we are now friends. It was our little secret. For 2 months. The best first 100 days this administration has ever seen. The rest of the night? Everyone else talked to each other. They talked to us as well. We all talked. But she didn't say anything to me. I didn't say anything to her. Mad Mad. I had not yet created that name for her. Within the next two months. Mad Mad grew into my best friend. She was my confidant. Mad Mad knows my secret pain source. 

   Mad Mad is the epitome of sweet. The rest of the night, she wasn't even on her phone. I wasn't on my phone either. We sat directly in front of each other. She's looking down. At her twiddle thumbs. I'm looking around and looking down. When I look up at her. She looks up at me immediately. She then immediately looks back at her twiddle thumbs. The rest of the night. No words. She goes to bed early. She went in the room twice all in all. Her old room. Her dad's old house. Her brother lived there now. Ted. Ted kicked her out. Then moved her best friend in. Break the code much bro? Personal theory is Mad Mad was just dying to get even with them both.

    Here is the credibility. The next morning. I awake in Ted's old room. I remember falling asleep there around 6 am. They were all up when I entered the living room. 11am. I go to the couch Mad Mad and I had our first conversation on and attempt to wake up. Looking back on it the entrance was almost adorable. I woke up last but I wasn't fully up enough to interact. I needed to rest the head on the couch some.  I wake up. Mad Mad comes over to where I'm at. The cat Hector is there as well. She came to play with the cat. Hector is shell shocked feline. She pets Hector. Hector bites her. I realize she needs help. I go in. I pet Hectors other side. Hector rolls over and immediately bites and swipes at me. We begin laughing. She follows. Hector bites her. I follow. I get bit again. He almost gets me with the paws on the next go. I scream and laugh. Mad laughs. I could feel us bonding. Every one else was quiet. Disregarding the thought in the brain. Wow. Mad really likes Chad. That girl never left my side from the moment I met her. Exactly what I wanted from the first half of the first conversation.

   Every one else was quiet. It was our time. She claimed me as Aries often do when they like you. Says Google. In front of everyone in the house. During the Hector game. "Finally I'm not the third wheel anymore. I'm glad to have you Chad." Admitting openly her frustration over her brother taking her best friend. I was her retribution. Chad was hers. That was her declaration. She claimed me as her other wheel. Finally she has someone to talk to and entertain her solely. She was on her way to becoming my very own Mad Mad. I would get her number 7 days later. I didn't know at the time. Obviously. She was in for 2 months worth of surprises. Her birthday was 2 months away. Our friendship was deep. In those 2 months I always felt she had intelligence to hold her ground with me. I'm a lot to deal with mentally and emotionally. Sometimes. Sometimes? Sometimes. I go thru a lot inside a considerable amount of the time. She was my confidant. She cared. She cared if I was sad about something.  

   It was time for me to leave. She would stay at Ted's all weekend. I wasn't able to get bud the night before or that morning.  She called her plug and Josh didn't want to do so. I offered her out of range the same $50 so she could get the bud herself. She declined. She didn't know me. That was a huge gesture to position or propose so soon. But I was her other wheel. Guess she didn't know what another feel felt like. Someone to say here. Use this. Here. Are you hungry? Hey...do you have food? Are you Ok? Hey...I'm just checking in. Just let me know you're ok. How did you sleep? Do you have bud? Do you need cash? I cared for her deeply. From the start. I know a sweet girl when I see one. Ooh. She was the sweetest. Her inner child wasn't gone. It reigned supreme. She was new to the adult world. 18. She wanted guidance on making money. I'm the 31 year old stock broker. Novelist.  Filmmaker. The most eligible bachelor on the rise. She paints. We are the perfect set of friends. The two wheels of fortune. Two artists getting to know each other. I stood up for her. I stood up for Mad Mad every single chance I had gotten.