Help! iMessage mystery

Can anyone help me figure out what is going on with iMessage? 
I recently switched from an iPhone to an Android (don't worry guys, I still have my MBA, iPad, iPad Mini, 2 other iPhones, etc.).  The Android is a test right now, but I am stumped with iMessage as follows:  I sent a text message to an iPhone owner with whom I've never communicated before, and who in no way had my contact info in her iPhone.  Her reply never came to my Android but instead went to my iPad Mini wifi and to my old, deactivated iPhone, which is on wifi but on no carrier network. 
I've had similar experiences with other iPhone owners' replies, but since they had my contact info entered into their phones and had texted my old iPhone via iMessage, I had assumed that it was their devices that had me identified as an iMessage user. 
However, with this last experience, is it possible that my phone number is in some iMessage database at Apple, and that any text meant for that phone number is automatically routed through iMessage?  If so, how the heck do I deactivate it?  I'm not sure I'm going to keep the Android for ever, but I have to be able to text iPhone owners and get replies.
Thanks for your replies. 

It sounds as if you did not turn iMessage off before stopping service on the iPhone. Here's how you do it without the phone:
Go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
Log in if not already logged in.
Click on "Edit Products"
Click on the "X" to the right of the product.
Click "Unregister"

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