She had just lost her best friend of fifteen years. Brutus the great her road dog. He was her M.D. it stood for my dog to her.
he wore doges and jackets and he was her life since all the kids had grown up and left out on their own. They went everywhere together. Saturday shopping getting the car washed the oil changed the tires rotated. She couldn’t think of a place that they hadn’t gone together.
she wasn’t sure how she was feeling because she cried so much and so hard for her loss of him.
she hadn’t cried like this for her own parents deaths. Of course her parents had pretty much abandoned her her at the age of nine.
her mom was around more than her dad. But her didn’t have any money and and sometimes they would go hungry. If they went to long she knew her mom would aske her brother for money. At her mom did try.
her dad was was pretty much out of her life till she had her first child and he had gotten divorced from wife number three or four. She had lost track a long time ago.
she cried more when these thoughts came up in her head. She knew she wasn’t the greatest mom in the world. She had gotten sick when her youngest was two. She just didn’t know what was wrong. She would sleep all the time. She’d wake up tired and barely get up to go to work. Her children suffered for this.
at 40 she got her tonsils taken out. Where the new controversy of did her Ex try and murder her. Or was it really an accidental overdose l. She wasn’t really sure in her own head about it. And had no memories to help her with it.
uggghhhhh she thought to her self why is all of this coming up right now? She started kicking her feet. Ugggh Brutus Wasn’t there. He always slept. He was always wrapped around her legs. enough she she thought to herself. She had enough money saved up and time she could take off from work to go on a road trip. Time for an adventure.
in the morning she decided to do something ofc her bucket list and go sleep in a haunted hotel and ride a horse into a bar.
she went to go pack. She was packing Brutus’s stuff when she remembered he was gone and started crying again. She called her boss and told her she need to take some vacation time. Her boss had no problem with it the whole office knew how much Brutus meant to Wanda.
Wanda finished packing her self and got in her car. She needed an oil change and get the tires checked.
while she was waiting she texted her coworker Shelly to see if she could take Brutus pictures down at her desk. Shelly told her it was already done. Wanda asked her if she could do the same at her condo. She sent a smiley face and said as you wish my friend. Wand smiled the first time in two days. wanda started googling haunted hotels .she had always wanted to do this crazy idea of hers in Montana. So she started googling dude ranch’s and found one close to town. They had horse riding lessons. She was getting closer to her dream of riding a horse in a bar and ordering a beer. Then she was going to go sleep in a hunted hotel.
montana here she comes it was about two in the afternoon not a lot of good drive time but she had to leave now not in the morning or she would never go.
she set her GPS and was off. She watched the scenery go by and looked at Brutus’s spot next to her... she took his doggles out and hung them on the mirror. Here we go boy. She drove till about seven PM then pulled off to find a motel. She had kiss playing loud and was rocking out to heavens on fire. The guys in the truck next to her must have thought she was nuts. Oh well never going to see them again she thought to herself lol. next song was your gonna hear me roar. She made cat claw motions to the guys in the window. She was forgetting all the bad. She checked into a motel room and decided to go to the bar she saw a block away.
she walked down and order food and a beer. This should help her sleep food and a beer. I’ll just have two she thought,at four she was well buzzed not drunk yet but very well buzzed.
god I’m a cheap date and light weight. Oh well she thought no one to impress but myself. But I am glad I walked and I’m close to my motel she was thinking.
then the bright shinny big pool tables caught her eye. She loved playing pool she wasn’t very good at all but oh she was on vacation. She put quarters in the juke box playing AC/DC and skid row then a little TA TA Taylor Swift ohhh yeah she thought to herself this was living.
then she turned her hat backwards and racked up the balls on the table. She had a few good shots she knew how to make if the balls let her have those moments.
to be continued......