Choices....part two

Lilly was a very funny girl. Quick witted and comeback queen. She got that way by using it as a defense mechanism. Being overweight and teased, she needed to do something to make her "fit" in. She had a lot of friends and they adored her. Always laughing and having fun. Never knowing deep down how she felt. The real her.

Brothers only. When she was younger she got to stay out later than most of the neighborhood girls and played a lot of hide n seek with her brothers. Most of the girls had to go in when the street lights came on! Lots of baseball and other sports, even jumping off a neighbor's roof onto a mattress. Lilly became quite the tomboy.

By the time she was nine, she was cooking dinner for the family, and it was also her job to come home from school each day and make the ice tea and sweep the kitchen floor. All the kids had chores to do. Her parents both worked and the family waited til her mother got home, often times late, to eat dinner together. Mostly, Lilly was happy then. Being unsupervised most of the time was a treat to her. And it showed that she could be trusted in her eyes.

When Lilly was in the fifth grade, her family moved. Only about twenty five miles from where she was born and raised. She saw a friend from the old neighborhood every so often, until not at all.

New house, brand new, just built. Two story with a fireplace. Her bedroom was the best thing in the house to Lilly though. It had double doors that she would open the way Doris Day did on her show. Lilly felt so rich with her Doris Day doors!

A new school too. Her fifth grade class started late. She was able to watch All My Children before she went to school. Black and white, only a half hour and Erica was only about eighteen.

Lilly's teacher was a real live Hippy. Short skirts and very long dark hair. Miss Parker lived on a peninsula and had a boyfriend with very long hair as well. She let Lilly's class watch Sesame Street for fun. It was new back then too. Lilly made new friends easily. She was enjoying her new school. It was also a time when girls were only allowed to wear dresses or skirts. By sixth grade pants were okay, but only on rainy days.

In her new neighborhood there were kids everywhere. As more and more houses were finished, more families moved in. Lilly met JoAnn. She actually lived in one of the model homes and it came with all the furniture. Lilly loved going to her house. She had a beautiful pool and it had water shooting out of sides about every two feet. Lilly thought she had it made, but JoAnn really did.

JoAnn and Lilly became inseparable. JoAnn was the sister Lilly never had. She shared almost everything with JoAnn.

As Lilly got older and started liking boys, it was a very difficult time for her. She never said how sad she was that boys didn't like her back. She just continued the pretense.

When she got kissed by Jim with a promise to see each other again, it was the happiest she could ever recall being. Of course she would not tell her parents, for one reason he was too old and she was sure they would not want her to date because she was too young....

When Lilly was eight she was watching out the window of her house one evening and saw the teenage girls across the street. They were "necking" with boys in cars and her father told her she had better never do that or she would be in big trouble. She took it to heart and vowed to NEVER bring home boyfriends.

It was a week before Lilly and JoAnn finally got a call from the guys. They were going to meet again. Lilly was thrilled and could hardly wait.


To be continued..........