Miss KP, where to begin!?

I met KP in the first year at secondary school when we were 11, by the age of 12 we were best friends (it wasn’t always so peachy).

At 14 we (the entire bad crowd, not just the 2 of us) were already going out to bars and clubs (this isn’t as bad as you would think as our legal drinking age is 18 – we looked older than we should’ve). Also, our parents were aware and as long as we were at the pick-up point at the time they told us to be everything was good. Ok, so you may think our parents were irresponsible, but actually we were quite a sensible group and only did what we wanted to do – we weren’t the easily lead type! Plus, for my parents anyway, they had tried everything in their power to sort out my sisters crazy behaviour and none of it had worked so I think when it came to me they figured they were better off to keep me on side.

Anyway, our parents pretty much let us do as we pleased (I think this must’ve been agreed between them) but there was always a condition or constraint (i.e. you can go out but we will pick you up at such and such a time).

…and so, the debauchery began

KP and I both lost our v-plates (much the same as “l-plates” but not for driving) before we hit 15, yes pretty young! Looking back it was pretty bad and I definitely wouldn’t want a child of mine (not that I currently have any) – it wasn’t particularly glamorous.

Ahh, I have this terrible habit of going off in a totally different direction! We’ll get back to the “first time” another day when I have nothing to blog about! I’ve also developed a terrible habit of turning posts into novels! I wonder how many posts I need to do for my writing to actually be novel-esque!?

Ok, back to KP

KP was, and is, a serial dater. Growing up she had 1 main boyfriend, we’ll call him Burt. They were forever breaking up and getting back together again. On reflection they were really bad for each other! In between broken up episodes KP had numerous boyfriends, flings or whatever you want to call them. KP and Burt broke up for good when she moved to Sheffield for uni after school (N.B he was 3 years older than her, in a dead-end job and going nowhere fast – but he was a lovable rogue!). A couple of years later we discovered he had in fact had a baby with someone else whilst with KP – that definitely took a reunion off the cards!

Long story short

KP moved to London to work for an international foreign language school (she speaks fluent Spanish and French) a couple of years ago, following a promotion she is now in charge of one of their UK schools and is due to move to her new city this week!!

Sorry for all the rambling – I’m just trying to do a quick recap on the past (but for me quick turns to slow and dragged out quite easily – must improve!) so I can cut to the present without having to do a lot of backtracking!!

B to the EX

I started off writing the most recent secret but soon realised that you need some background first or I will be forever blogging in the past and I want to go real-time, so I will try and round up the secret givers as best as I can over this coming week.

Bex

Bex and I met aged 18, first time living away from home, we were possibly the worst 2 people to be living together.

Bex was from the mid-north and me from the south, we were both a bit crazy with wicked sense of humours. Being students we didn't stick to the going-out rules from home (i.e. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights), we went out Monday through Thursday and the whole of our residence (all 4,000 freshers!) stayed in over the weekends. In our block there were 7 floors, each floor had 2 flats and each flat had 12 students. Bex and I were the only 2 girls in flat 14 on the 7th floor!

Every weekend was spent wondering around the several blocks of flats in our mini-village in Southampton making friends and drinking a lot!

At the time Bex had a serious boyfriend (they split up in the 2nd year) and I was free, single and loving life. Bex confessed she was sometimes jealous as I didn't have to worry about a) what bf was doing at his uni and b) If what I did would upset anyone, for example our first night at uni there was a gathering of us and the 10 boys from our flat in my room, they all started to leave the room, 1 boy left:

Jen: Can you get in my bed so I can go to sleep.

Cokey: Get in your bed?

Jen: No, I said get out of

Needless to say I woke up in the morning and Monsieur Coke was still in my bed.
Back to Bex...

After uni Bex and I lost contact for a few years, it's difficult living so far apart to keep in touch when you have different things going on. I know that's a lame excuse (OMG, I haven't said "lame" in years!!) but it's my excuse so suck it up!

Anyway, we found each other again and I now get daily emails from Bex. She has a boyfriend, lets call him Dumbo. Last year Bex admitted that Dumbo has hit her (she filed a police report then retracted it - bad girl), we both know he's cheated on her, he uses her for money and a place to crash, he's a 26 year old child not wanting to grow up (can you see the love i harbour for this dude?), he cannot commit to her...and the best is yet to come!!

I've grown more and more intolerant towards Dumbo and I've never even met him. I really don't like disliking people but he's definitely on that list!

Bex is a serious candidate for the "boy trouble" category as it's all she ever seems to have.

She's a perfect girlfriend in my eyes. She's beautiful, she's athletic (she's actually a sports model and is a lookalike for a famous tennis player (I shall not say which as you might Google her)), she's a dancer, an excellent friend, she's bright and confident.....a real shining star!

I do love my Bex! But I don't love her issues.

Keep reading to find out what the latest of Bex' dramas is - I assure you it's the craziest thing you have ever heard, and the next friend to be introduced is KP.

Introductions - A Helping Hand

OK, so here's an overview of my 'characters' - I will fill the main few in now (but as it's 3:22am and I can't seem to think properly) and every time I post about another friend I shall add their info down here too!

Jen - That's me! I am the secret keeper and a friend to most I'd like to think - but you can't please everyone! I have a lot of secrets of my own, not necessarily because they're really bad, but for me I've always thought that old saying "a problem shared is a problem halved" was wrong and it should actually be "a problem shared is a problem doubled"...this will become clearer as my secrets come out!

Mitch - Bless her! Mitch has been my friend since school, she joined when we were 16 so she was bit of a latecomer! She was bright, bubbly, funny, beautiful, exciting, vivacious, exotic and everyone wanted to be her friend...She was also everything you'd want to be until last year. The previous year she met, and moved in with, her BF, let's call him...actually, let's just use his real name...Tom. Tom was pretty nasty and with Mitch's self loathing spiralling out of control she became anorexic. On Valentines Day 2008 Mitch weighed in at 4st 9lbs (65lbs) - for a 5'5" 24 year old that is pretty terrible! The road to recovery has barely begun so I'm guessing you can figure out some of the issues that'll come with Mitch.

Bex - Bex was my roommate at uni. We had some of the most amazing and hilarious times together, we were quite a bad pairing and were forever getting each other in to trouble. Bex is a confident and beautiful dancer as well as other things.

KP - Possibly the funniest of the bunch. Miss KP has recently taken the plunge with a new job, new responsibility and a totally new city! Not knowing a soul in her new town I'm sure she'll have some stories!

Toni - I've only known Toni for a short while, maybe 12 months, but she is an incredible girl. She has had severe depression since the age of 13 and I think she deserves a medal for coming this far. She's only 22 yet is extremely wise...although clearly not on everything or she wouldn't be on here! There's a chance I will cave and tell Toni about this blog so I thought I may as well use her name!

KPC - AKA BF. KPC stands for "Kung Pow Cow". KPC is a black belt, a surfer and my best friend!

This is all sounding a bit miserable, but trust me it isn't. I have have put a bit of a dull spin on things, but mainly because I have my first post for each in mind and they aren't pretty. A lot of things seem to have happened recently and so there's been a lot of advice flying around. I'm amazed I ever get any work done!!