I hate January so much. Great way to start the year, eh?
1. The first time I fell in love, I had the worse break-up. I was torn, obsessed, angered, insane. I forced myself to forget, and re-bounded many times, looking for that same feeling. I couldn’t find it, and in a moment of loneliness, he talked to me again. He wanted to see me, because he still loved me and knew I still loved him too. We saw each other, and he kissed me. It was different this time. Last time I had kissed him, I had FORCED him to kiss me, to see if I could win him back. Now this time I didn’t want to do anything he didn’t want to do, but he kissed me. He held me, wrapped his arms around my waist. He turned me to him, let me breathe into his neck and take him in through my nose. He showed me heaven, and he made me feel like I did those cold winter months that he and I were in love. That night, after parting….he told me he didn’t want me back. To forget him, to let go. “It doesn’t feel right”, was his explanation. I spent that week in tears, in agony. Crying him out of my thoughts, as if I was a towel drenched in misery’s water. I wrung it out. I let it out. I went to his house one afternoon. Stood in his porch until he came out. He grabbed me, said it would all be okay. Those brown cold eyes drifted to my lips as I sat there trembling and wanting him to shake me hard. I left that house without looking back.
2.A week later, his best friend talked to me. He had always wanted me, and was one of the reasons me and the other guy didn’t work out. Every time we were going to go out, something stood in the way. There was something shady about him, but in my optimistic I’m-finally-over-him state, I was ready to give him a chance. I opened up to him, I smiled tenderly when he looked my way. I asked him about his day, about his feelings, made him laugh. I laughed at all his jokes and ate lunch with him. I texted him and talked to him every day. He lead me on, saying I was beautiful, that he couldn’t believe that he was getting a chance. I went up to him and told him I had two questions. The first was whether or not he liked me. He looked at me and shook his head. “Uh.. I don’t know how to answer that.” and walked away. Apparently he had been talking to some other girls at the same time. Apparently they’re better than me. Apparently I opened up to him, finally giving in, for nothing.
3.That very night, I numbed out the rejection. I let it seep in through my skin and run through my veins one time before disappearing. I welcomed it in, like an old friend. Sighing and searching for a hint of sleep, I got on Facebook. One of my best friends was online. He did something I wasn’t expecting. When his words flashed across my screen, I got so excited, but confused. He said he liked me, that he wanted to see me alone next time. That he wanted to give us a shot. I had known him for a couple of years, and used to have a big crush on him before. Those feelings re-surfaced quickly in the midst of my tender-feelings. I was raw, and I was willing. We set up a time and place. The next day, he didn’t answer my texts or messages. The weekend came, and I stood waiting for him at our rendezvous. He never showed. It’s been two weeks, and he still hasn’t said anything. So he changed his mind? Fine, but he could’ve at least said something. I lost a good friend, thanks to his own stupidity.
4.I was defeated, I was done. I was ready to give up on guys for a while. That’s when he came about. He’s always been in my life. For a while, we hated each other. We hated each other because our relationship ended so bad. He helped me out of my depression, helped me come back alive. I was fresh out of the hospital when he kissed me for the first time. We had been good friends before that. I had met him in the middle of the woods, on a trail. He asked me for my number, and that night we stayed up texting for a long time. After that, he was always there when I was heartbroken, or when I was in need of help. He was my emotional dumpster, and I was his pretty accessory. There were days we met at our tree. We stayed there for hours, climbing it and talking. Listening to music and laughing. After our relationship, we never talked. He and I were awkward after that. I let him melt out of my thoughts, out of my life. Now he was back. He and I talked things out, and discovered old feelings. I’d always see him as my hero. He reached out a hand to me now, asking me to give him another chance. I thought it over as we met in the same park that one day, riding our bikes lighting fast. Two days later, in the middle of the night, I asked him to be with me again. He said we’d have to wait until Saturday, ‘till he could see me. Saturday came, but he didn’t. It’s Tuesday now, and I haven’t heard from him.
That’s why I need you. I know, you see me as emotional support at the moment… but we are getting closer and closer. You told me I helped you get over her, and I told you you helped me unload my crap. It’s a win-win situation, but I’m afraid. I’m scared that it will become more than just two people who are the solace to the other.
Cavalary 6:52 pm on February 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
DAMN tall order. Still, if you’ll find him, better make really sure you won’t be the one hurting him in the end.
forget then 7:15 pm on February 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Cavalary, not all girls are like that.
Most guys are really cold, and don’t let their emotions show. They expect us girls to take grunts and halfassed efforts as them really wanting to be with us, but in the end, if you don’t make an effort to show a girl that you love her, she stops believing you when you say it.
OneStepAway 7:28 pm on February 16, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I might end up hurting him, that’s true. Anyone on this website is bound to have problems too big to be able to set them aside for whoever that special someone is. Sub-consciously, at least…we cannot put our problems aside. I only hope that by the time I find this guy, that is..if I do find him, I will be mature enough to not over-analyze every single thing he does.
Cavalary 6:09 am on February 17, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Of course most are like that, but she was talking about a very specific kind of guy and I was remembering her saying on here that making someone else happy doesn’t matter one bit if you’re not happy yourself.
As for those problems, don’t set them aside, figure out a solution together. If you can muster the force to shove them aside together, great. If not, just pull each other through them, don’t let them separate you.
OneStepAway 2:06 pm on February 17, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I like your thinking, my fellow cyber-solace-finder.
forget_me_not 5:29 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply
They do exist, but they turn up in the oddest of places. Don’t try and find one; just be absolutely yourself and one will come to you. I know it’s sucky advice but it’s really all that goes into finding a good, stable relationship.
Don’t mistake the next guy you find for one of these though; that’s the worst mistake you can make, just make sure you’re sure and you’re not fooling yourself.