My 10th birthday, I was given a birhday party at my house. I believe it was raining, so the party came inside my parents home. My mother scheduled the games we were to play and spin the bottle and pin the tail on the donkey memories will never be forgotten.
In my spin of the bottle, it pointed toward a girl I absolutely could not stand. I did not go to her for that kiss, she RAN to me and laid one on me. For a ten year old boy, that did something to me that is hard to explain. Anyway, pin the tail on the donkey was next. It was my turn. Eyes blindfolded and twisted around and around in a circle, I was drunk. I walked forward, missed the donkey entirely and stuck the pin in the same girl that had laid one on me, in the spin the bottle game. It was not intentional and that girl followed me everywhere for the next three years.
What happened to her? She grew up to be taller than me. She was 6ft. 7in tall, two inches taller than myself. We were friends over the years, until she died.
I miss her smile. Not her kiss.