I’ve taken a break from writing this but now it continues.
Lynn and I had had the incident where she came at me with a knife. That incident drove me further away and my plan of leaving began to take form. Unfortunately, circumstance and another of Lynn’s attacks with violence made it all happen far faster than I had intended and finacially prepared for.
Julie had found me a little studio apartment In Talaquah. Not a bad place and a friend of hers was the landlord. I just needed a month to save the cash for first and last months rent. Having a baby in the house, a car loan and the loan on our trailer (yes, I was trailer trash) made saving money a little slow, especially since I made the only income in the house. I never got into that apartment in Talaquah, because the shit hit the fan far to fast and hard on multiple levels and I had to get out quick. So I ended up in Silaom Springs Ar. A somewhat small town on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas, living with my Cousin Camilla and her now husband Buddy. I ended up working with Buddy shortly afterward and getting his manager job when he quit, but that’s a different story.
So, Lynn and I are burning up, in the middle of August by day. By night, I’m burning it up on fire with Julie. Both on our Dinner breaks for a quickie and after work, by the pond. We worked on the same line and our boss who was like a big sister to me, always made sure Julie and I were working side by side, along with Reese and my pal Stew. Well a plant in a small town, word carries fast.
One day my Cutlass had an alternator problem so I had to take Lynn’s limited edition Camaro to work. One of Lynn’s friends worked with and followed Julie and I after work. Apparently she watched the whole thing and the next morning gave Lynn the play by play of what happened in her car. Busted again.
The insuing argument was bad. I was asleep and again she jumped on the bed and I woke to screaming accusations. I was caught, again with no way out other than the fact that my father was flying in from Denver that day. I was able to get her to agree to keep everything quiet and cool until my dad went back home on that Sunday. She did agree to, but that isn’t what happened.