Best Friend

I haven't heard from my best friend "Jul" lately. She used to call me all the time but she's been having some problems at home and hasn't been able to call much lately. When she has called me, I could tell she was sneaking the call in by the way they have abruptly ended. She just had a new modular home built and they have had all kinds of problems with it, not to mention how long it's taking for her old home to sell. I hope everything is going well on that front.

We met each other when we were 15 and became good friends right from the start. I remember times when we would ride our bikes for miles to see each other, as we didn't live very close to each other.

Her and I shared one locker all through high school, I seem to remember she said she "wanted to keep one book there, for a class that was close by" and had moved everything in within a week.

We hold world records for talking on the phone, with some calls having gone on for three and four hours.

Though many others have come and gone she has always been there for me, except for a period of time during her first marriage when her husband made it clear I wasn't welcome (he was an asshole, and that's all there is to that.)

After we each got divorced from our first spouses, we hooked back up again and have been together ever since. Through my second marriage and divorce, her second marriage, lots of girlfriends for me and boyfriends for her, we have always been there for each other. I hope we're not loosing contact again.

Part of the problem we have always had is, we're both insatiable flirts, and when we get together, well lets just say our mates haven't always appreciated the way "Jul" and I act towards each other. All I have to say is "to hell with them, she has been my friend longer than anyone, and if they can't deal with it, tuff."

To say my second wife, "T2", didn't care for "Jul" very much, would be an understatement. "T2" had a jealous bone that would rival, in size, any dinosaur bone that has ever been unearthed. I asked "Jul" to be my "best person" at our wedding and that didn't go over very well. The problem started when we decided to have a country-western wedding. "Jul" rented the same Tux that the rest of us did, but since it was a guy's Tux, you can imagine that the pants didn't fit quite right. She asked me if she could substitute a black skirt instead and I said that it was ok, but when I told "T2" she had a cow. I didn't think that "Jul" was being unreasonable, "T2" just had to pick out something to get "bent out" about.

The end of the month is "Jul's" birthday; I hope she has a great one. I probably won't see her before then but maybe we'll be able to sneak in a phone call. Her and I have shared a lot of life together and I hope we get to share the rest of it together as well. Having a female best friend, for a guy, is somewhat unusual, but I wouldn't have it any other way. "I love you and miss you kiddo."