I’ve been avoiding this story for a while. I’ve been friends with Suzanna since college…it’s been a long time (about 15 years). I don’t have many friends from that long ago that I consistently keep in touch with and she has been one that has stood the test of time and distance. Our children are the same age and we always just understood eachother and had fun together. My Charming Sister in Law always made comments about Suzanna and her husband and basically it was how she felt about everyone in my life…she just didn’t dig them. Suzanna moved to Connecticut 4 yrs ago and we still kept in touch and would see eachother as she had family here near me in Florida. A year ago Suzanna and family moved back into town and that’s when my CSIL decided to do something she’s done in the past: befriend one of my friends for the sole purpose of hurting me. I know…you may be thinking, “WHAT! How could she that?!” Or maybe , “This chick is exagerrating and noone can be that conniving.” Well, if my CSIL hadn’t told me right to my face in her own words that she had done that to me in the past I may not have suspected what was going on. But if it smells like fish…it’s FISH. And boy did that situation start to STINK as soon as it started. The first time I felt the knife and smelled that fishy smell was a day my CSIL was bugging me as she did everyone so often about “how we need to spend time together…”and “when’s the last time you got a pedicure…you never take care of yourself”. She scheduled a playdate for us at the salon and sort of left out until the last minute that she had invited Suzanna too…oh how fun! Suzanna called the day of our big day together and said, “I’m picking up your CSIL are we coming by to get you too ?”. I had just spoken w/my CSIL and we live walking distance from eachother and no, of course she had conveniently left out that my old college friend was picking her up b/c that’s how my CSIL is. So I called her and I called her on it and of course, she got panicky, nasty and defensive as she has in the past when I call her on something she’s doing or done that is wrong and she brushed it off as “oh sorry I just forgot to tell you and we’ll come by and get you”. Well, I didn’t want to not get my nails done b/c God, they were screaming for some TLC but I sure as Hell would not drive w/them on their special date…I do have some pride. So I met them there and man was it the weirdest pedicure I’ve ever had. It’s so much easier now for me to see the mistake I made in going that day but I wanted to show her that she wasn’t going to take my friend away as she was trying to do and I went and in the end it was the beginning of A Fly on the Wall. At first their relationship was that elephant in the room. Suzanna rarely discussed it w/me unless I prodded. And I did. Because as I said, she’s done this to me before. And the more I prodded, of course, the less I was told. So I kept my distance and had my guard up b/c what seemed to be a friend ended up being one of the people that would hurt me the most. And so I used this opportunity to garner info I may not have had the chance to get without this connection. I used this opportunity to find out things that I suspected and things that really showed my so called friends’ true colors. The more distance I kept the closer they were becoming and the last few months every thing came crashing down. And that is where I will leave you hanging as I must go eat some yummy cheese (yes, CHEESE)my dear sweet hubbie brought me home to eat and then one day soon I will tell the rest of this story.
