The Girls Sleepover

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I believe that we all have one childhood memory we try to forget. I know this, and everybody does, but they keep it to themselves. For me, I do keep it to myself. I know it still bears its ugly claws at me when I overhear a little girl talking about a sleepover. Not many happen as they used to, though. In Suburbia, girls, particularly seven through nine (exceptions range from ten and eleven, sometimes twelve, at least from what I heard) have sleepovers at the more popular girl's house. I remember who was the most popular in the day—and for good reason too—Penny Fitzgerald.

Penny was an antlered peanut, with eyes and a mouth being a hole, wearing wristbands (orange and white), one that was not usual back in the day. (Look at me. I sound like an old-timer.) She was a hybrid, like one of the girls I remembered named Jamie; she has traits of an ox, which would explain her horns, hooves, a lion's tail of orange coloring, a frog, which would be her skin coloring, and various other animal species as well. I can't possibly say them. But I do remember her giving me an ass whooping, rather than just a casual friendship. She was the bully in our school, aside from Tina, a massive tyrannosaurs rex. I can't tell you how much I suffered back then to just have a peaceful afternoon without running into these two.

Anyway, back to Penny.

She was the popular one because of her personality. We were twelve, so looks weren't all the matter, like how teenage girls have resulted into bulimia and anorexia. Poor fools. How you always pity them than find them attractive. With Penny, she was thin, sure. Aside from that, that's not what boys liked about her. She was always caring, helping friends in a tight jam; I remember one time she helped me out of some unfinished homework, and she would actually teach me better than the actual teacher. She was smart, so she knew what she was doing. I'm not saying I'm dumb that I needed her, but there was this feeling or sense of trust that when you met her and the way she talked to you, you could have sworn that you two were old buds when you were toddlers. And she had this way of making you feel so good about yourself ("Look on the bright side, and then on the worse side, and tell me how lucky you are," she told some); her voice pitched the perfect tone of relief from stress and depression. I'm not gonna say she was an angel, but if she was, I wouldn't be surprised. Along with that, when you stare into those gapping holes you can call eyes, you feel so alive and warm. It's impossible to do so, unless she was Penny. Cheesy, I know, but true.

I'm not gonna lie, she had some problems. She would often get jealous when someone would posed a threat between her and Gumball Watterson, a blue cat wearing a tan sweater with brown ends, black jeans, and having a somewhat medium, but thick, tail, and he was my friend.

I remember Gumball recalling the events of a night prior to what he was telling Darwin, his brother, who was oddly enough a goldfish with legs and green shoes. They discussed how Gumball had acquired this "thing" of some sort named Jealously. Maybe a demon or a bad twinkie he ate, but he claimed he didn't remember what happened when he blacked out from this here Jealously. Now, there are some things that are far-fetched to me. I don't believe what he said, mostly, except for one part when Gumball addressed how Penny actually said some nasty things to Carrie, and it could have been because of Jealousy. Now, I do know and understand why I shouldn't believe that as well, but I noticed how Penny could act like that against Carrie. I am one who doesn't speak, but I watch and listen. I heard that it was because Carried nudged him a bit, and she flipped. That's believable if the one you love could end up with someone else; that would pose a threat to you and your future-partner's future. It's overreacting, but you can't say one person hasn't done that before.

Still, the reason I say this because it could lead to a distant and untrustworthy relationship. Suppose either of them would see them with someone else. That could cause stress and distrust, and I would suspect (at least before hearing how Penny got a little bit of a slipped tongue) that she would be the one to work things out.

But no, she would too pose a problem as well.

Still, Penny is a good person; I know this, and so does her friends.

Now, to this day, I don't believe that's a problem anymore...