November 5, 1993

What a game? Yes, Mikey was there. Anna and I had to work the concession stands, but Mikey came up to us and bugged us about some coffee. Every time he came up to us we would have to tell him that it was still cooking. Then we realized the coffee wasn’t plugged in and of course I told Mikey that Anna didn’t have it plugged in and we laughed about it.

We talked about Scott a lot (asking questions and stuff), especially if he still worked in town. Mikey talk to Timmy about it and he told him that Scott was still working in town, he just wasn’t scheduled.

I hit around on him all the time that night and we all carried around laughing and talking about nonsense stuff. Ms. Garner was in there giving us dirty looks, but we didn’t care. I had a lot of fun, and I wasn’t nervous. I was cold though. Isn’t that weird, me not being nervous around a police officer after all these years.

Finally halftime was over and we went to bug Mikey. We hit him some more and I took his popcorn and when Anna told me he had his mouth and tongue on it I just threw the popcorn on him.

I told him about my car wreck and we had him thinking it was a hit-and-run. What I didn’t tell anyone was that it was a suicide attempt. I guess I didn’t really want to die, I just want all the fighting and my past to stop haunting me. We told him afterwards that it was just a ditch. He told me that he knew my driving would come to that someday. I informed him that I was speeding or late like the Friday before. Anna told me that she heard about that on the scanner. I told him about it in more details. My mom called the police station and they took my name and looked around the school. We were late because we had waited in line at the haunted tunnels for an hour.

During the time we were still working the concession stand I told him that I lived on a county road. He asked if I knew someone and I said “no”. Then he explained where they lived and I said “oh”. I live up the road from them in a yellow house. Of course after the game we left, and Anna's mom picked us up, because my car was still out of working condition. I spent the night at Anna's house. (12/16/93 — I also yelled the name toothless when he was away from the concession stand, but Anna told me not, too.)

05/31/2021 - I still have no clue what caused me to start feeling comfortable around Mikey. I mean I was having nightmares after we took him home on October 9, 1993 and was scared of him and then on November 5, 1993 I was joking around with him again. Of course, now that the entire time I knew him has played out it continued to be like that off and on the whole time. I would get scared but blame it on my past and he would keep talking with me and listening to me tell him about everything that was bothering me. He stepped over the line so many time and left so many red flags, but I didn’t open my eyes to see the real him until it was too late.