corkeycarson's blog: "Corkey Carson After Dark"

 This is an exerpt from Tiifany Stone (The Story)

I was the strangest little kid. I wasn't interested in anything. Every thing just seemed to be a bore, and I couldn't understand why I was a little kid. My mom was always losing me. She would make me go shopping with her, and I would think, "oh, more shopping, I'm going to sleep."

 So, I would crawl under a display or something and go to sleep. After a while, all the sales girls would be on the alert whenever I would walk into a department store, because they knew I was going to find some place to hide away. But the worst place was the sand box. Whenever my mom would take me to the sand box, I would think, "oh, no, I have to be around all those kids that think this is fun."

 I mean after putting the sand in your pail once, the thrill is gone. So of course, I would go right to sleep in the sandbox. But the ultimate low was Kindergarten. All of these kids playing with little blocks and making a mess with all those crayons. I went right to sleep on that. The teacher would say to my mom, "I don't understand your son, he refuses to stay awake in my class."

 I thought, "oh, let me hurry and grow up. Life as a little Kid, is just too boring." I mean really, I felt like I had nothing in common with the junior set. Then, this was almost a bright note. Someone from a modeling agency noticed me sound asleep in the sandbox one day and said to my mom, "Your son is really handsome, I would like to model him."

 I thought, "hey, that might be interesting." But no. My mom said, "I want my son to have a normal childhood and not have to grow up with cameras everywhere."

 I thought, "mom, are you crazy? I can be a star here. And anyway. What kind of a normal childhood is this that I'm having? Everything bores me."

 Then one day, my mom took me to the Park for a picnic with her friend and her friends little daughter, that was the same age as I. We were both 7 at the time. I thought, "oh, another boring picnic, and now I'm going to have to listen to all their shopping talk. I'm going to sleep."

 So, I found a nice spot on the grass and I feel sound asleep. Then after a while, I felt something crawling on me. I opened my eyes and noticed that it was my mom's, friends, daughter. I noticed that my mom and her friend were busy chatting away, and were not even aware that the girl was crawling all over me. I thought, "well, if I close my eyes and pretend I'm sleeping, the girl will go away and find something else to crawl on."

 But no, she kept crawling all over me. I'm thinking, "well, I don't know what she thinks she's doing, but I'm just going to keep my eyes closed until she gets bored and goes away."

 Then, all of a sudden, I feel something soft on my lips . I'm thinking, "hmmmm, that feels good. I wonder what that can be?" It just kept feeling nicer and nicer. Then I thought, "oh, what the heck. Let me open my eyes to see what this is." Then I notice, that its the girls lips, that are on mine. I asked, "whats that"?

 She said, "thats a kiss." I said, "oh, I like that." She said, "I like that to." I smiled and said, "oh, at last something thats not boring."

 Well, since that day, my life really changed. I wasn't falling asleep all over the place anymore. I seemed to be wide awake and interested. But, I always wonder. "Was it the kiss that day, when I was seven, that sparked something in me; or was it just time to wake up?" Well, whatever, I have been wide, awake, ever since. And that is the story of my first kiss, and my first unboring moment.