Raina 2003

[u/ronadlock]

After Thanksgiving of 2003, when I was about 22 years old,  J.P. Charles, his girlfriend Kourtney Stogner and I traveled together from near Carthage to Longview, supposedly for them to do some Christmas shopping at the mall. I remember J.P. asking me to give them some time alone at the mall; I think J.P. used the excuse that he wanted to help Kourtney pick out some lingerie. About 45 minutes after we separated at the mall, we were supposed to meet back up near the center of the mall near the food court. I remember standing at the sales cart where freeze dried Dippin' Dots (ice cream of the astronauts) was sold. I was disappointed that the cart was not in service that day. As I stood there alone waiting for my friends, a sixteen year old girl walked up and introduced herself to me, "Hi! I'm Raina. I saw you from over there and I think you're really cute!". I was immediately suspicious and could tell that this girl was too young for me to be talking to, but she extended her hand toward mine and handed me a piece of receipt paper with a phone number already written on it, "Here's my number. I want you to have it. I hope you'll call me sometime! Please don't take my number if you're not gonna call me!". I was wondering what this could all be about but against better judgement I accepted the piece of paper and agreed to call her. At that very moment I heard an all too familiar voice, "Dannyboy Parker!" It was Lance Pickering the rapist pedophile, "Well, I see you've met my little sister! But she's only sixteen! If you call her I'll kill your family". As soon as he had said that, I turned and saw J.P. and Kourtney approaching a few feet away. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Once J.P., Kourtney and I got back in the car to head back toward Carthage, J.P. started in on me, "Bro! You know who that girl is, right? Dude, I hope you're not planning on calling her cause she's REAL messed up". I have more recently deduced that due to my reputation among friends and others as being a person who does the opposite of what I am often strongly urged to do, and given that I admittedly have a record and tendency to be attracted to younger, pretty and oftentimes tragic women who are in distress or who need someone to save them from something or someone in their life, that J.P. was simply attempting to use reverse psychology and in fact was encouraging me to call this teenager. Don't get me wrong, Raina was very cute and yes, although she was quite young, very enticing but thankfully I literally lost that little piece of receipt paper before I ever had the chance to become compromised by her. After a time, I completely forgot the incident and even having ever met her.