Life Lessons 5  Another summer in the UK

The year was 1989
 
This was summer when I was sixteen, and my mother wanted a break from caring for me and my sister.
 
The word "taking care" is held very loosely. She wanted to get some distance between me and my twenty-year-old boyfriend.
 
She liked him until she read a page in my diary stating the sed boyfriend was my first. I do not know how you all would feel about your privacy being invaded, but that particular issue was blown to a proportion that you would think that I killed someone.
 
She bought three tickets to London, and off we went. (This is where you will discover I was not a nice person)
 
Before going on this trip, I had already broken up with him. Did he do anything wrong? No. I was on a weird power trip. I decided to get rid of the nuisance called “virginity” because it seemed that that was all the guys wanted.
 
 I tossed it away. The experience had much to be desired, but I did not care. Nor did I care that he loved me and wanted to marry me.  
 
Nope. (Bitch, right? Yes I was. You do not have to agree. I know it)
 
I was on a flight to England to visit my family for the summer.
 
Uk in 1989
 
At this time the music I was hearing on the radio was,   Bad manners Skaville Uk, Lisa Lisa Cult Jam, Queenschythe, Lita Ford and Ozzy Osborn etc..
 
My braces just came off, my hair had a curly perm, and I had a decent figure. My cousins did not make a scene like they did the first time at the airport, and I was thankful.
 
Two cousins met us, and I rode with my cousin Elaine. Little did I know it was planned that way.
My cousin Elaine never held back with her words. Once we were on the highway, the lecture began.
 
“Listen, whatever you think you had gotten away with, with your mum, it stops ere. Get me? Keep your legs locked. You want to be fast, well you will see the back of mi hand across ya arse. Do we have an understanding?”
 
I said, “Yes”. To please her. What she did not know was that she waved a red flag in my face, and I do not take threats lightly. One name came to mind. “David”
 
Yeah, this will be his summer. Let's see how they will stop me.