Mike Goes to Bayshore!

I’m not sure why I went to Bayshore Shopping center. Dom and his family had moved to Pine Crest project in the west end of Ottawa so I started hanging out there one Summer. Pine Crest was south of Bayshore and to the north was what we called Richie Project. Don’t let the name deceive you Richie project was a welfare housing projectand a tuff one. So I hung around Pine Crest project another low income housing . The was often a project rivalry between Richie and Pine Crest. I never got involve in it I was busy hanging out with Dom and awaiting any opportunity to get a glance at Theresa. Dom was working with his dad for a while and so did Theresa I believe. One day I headed out there but before I did I went to buy some mescaline . The guy didn’t have any but he had Angel dust. He warn me not to take the whole cape . “ Just put a little at a time on your cigarette” he said “but don’t take the whole capsule “! Well teenager being what I was I took the whole capsule and got on the bus at St. Laurent shopping center heading for the west end. My trip required me to transfer at Carling wood shopping mall . That’s when the drug kicked in and I started massive elusination ! I remember walking through Sear unable to differentiate a manikin from the real sales girl . At one point I was looking at a manikin and it turned and asked me if it could help me. Of course it wasn’t a manikin but it totally freaked me so I left the store and got on the Bayshore bus . I got off the bus and walked toward the wooded area where I thought I would feel safer .As I walked I felt like a giant robot when I walked and I was sure everyone could tell I was high.I discovered in the woods an old abandoned house where I decided to hold out for a while. These girls showed up I’m guessing on a exploring trip or just to hide and smoke pot. When they saw me they ask who I was and that’s when I said “ I’m Mike Young”. Of course with the name came my suspicious behaviour which was actually because I was higher then I could control. I say “control” because being in control had become one of my personality trait and not being in control scared me. That’s when I met Karen and her friend . Karen was only 14 but completely develop where as Lorraine Bryant was 16 . I started dating Karen for a while . Her parents went on trips a lot and she had the house to her self . On night after one of her parties I had the privilege of walking each of her friends home one by one . This is where I pulled a Fonzy and stole a kiss from 3 women in one night. Laurain was my best kiss and I became very attracted to her so I broke up with Karen to date Lorraine.Lorraine smoked pot and so did I but Karen did not. I remember spending a whole night on one of the storage locker on a lawn chair we found , fondling and kissing her. I really liked her .Once we all went to Britannia beach at night and we crossed though someone’s yard . A couple of guys came out and one grabbed me by the throat . Britannia beach was Richie project’s turf so I was in real trouble. Here I was with three girls and surrounded by two guys one holding me by the throat. Showing how scared I was not an option! I was Mike Young and the girls never saw anyone stand up to me. I grabbed his left hand that was on my throat with my left hand and did a cross over wrist lock on him which put him off balance . His friend was trying to help him but I would walk around my choking guy still hanging on to his wrist. The girls had run of by now so I had to find a way to leave too. I saw a fence stick on the ground so I pushed the guy I was holding on the other guy and grabbed the stick. They would try to move on me but I would make threatening gestures with the stick and they backed off . I kept repeating that we were just crossing through to go to the beach and I didn’t want to fight them. Finally they stop charging and told me “fuck off or we will kill you!” In those days gangs didn’t kill each other like today . They likely meant they would kick the shit out of me. I met up with the girls waiting and crying up the road and we never went back to that beach. Things were going well for me I thought.I was seemingly dating three girls and they didn't seem to mind. I didn't brag to any of them about what I was doing with the other so maybe they didn't know .Lorrain was the one I cared the most about however! One day Lorraine cancelled a date with me and I later found out she went out with an older boy who was her neighbour . Under Mike’s code I could not date a women who would lie to me so I broke up with her . That was the first time a women had been unfaithful to me and lied to me. I was shock! The messenger of this grim news was Karen not surprisingly . From there I dated Jamie the third girl I kissed . I was definitely a player before I even knew what that was . Even though I broke up with Lorraine I was still sneaking around with her at her babysitting jobs and we would kiss and fondel all night. In fact I spend time with all of them on there babysitting jobs. I even dated Karen’s older sister once but she was intimidating because she was into sex and I didn’t know enough about it yet. We hung out at the mall alot after smoking pot .By the end of the summer all three girls finally wised up and banded together against me. It was time for me to go .That was a fun part of that summer and my summer was just begining!It was during this time that I made a drug conection with someone in Richie project that would show up later in my life. I was sleeping over at Dom’s house alot ,so I started to spend more time in Pine Crest project.