#39: …and someone else answers
…for someone else to take advantage of.
…..NOT THREE WEEKS LATER did I see her smiling one day with a new guy on her arm as they went out to lunch.
WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.
I recognized this guy. His name was Bob, some guy from the “A” group classes (Jaime and I were in the “B” group classes). He wasn’t even in our class and suddenly this guy pops into the picture. I clenched my teeth and pain shot right through my heart as I couldn’t help but overhear her talking about him excitedly with the other hens.
As I look back now, I will admit that Bob was actually a pretty decent guy. He usually tried to chat me up when I was in the area and while I faked friendliness as best I could, I was secretly wishing he’d get plowed by a campus shuttle bus. While Bob and Jaime spent their nights dating and probably fucking, I spend my lonely nights like a nerd sitting on the couch beating the tar out of a player-created “Bob” in a WWF video game.
Whatever the case, all I knew was that this “other guy” scenario I kept getting stuck in was really starting to piss me off. I didn’t understand it…was I not allowed a shot at love while everyone else was? Why was I always the third wheel?
What was guys like him doing that I was not?
sorry, beautiful Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am
You should publish your story into a book if you aren’t already. It’s really quite captivating.
Liz Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
That’s so sad. But I think you should have approached her anyway. They might have been dating but I doubt they were a steady couple like the girl had been with the last guy she was going to marry.
The Virgin Says:
May 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
SB: Not if my true name and picture appears on the inner flap
Liz: You are indeed right about that…back then I had it in my head that if a guy and girl were simply dating, they were a steady couple. How little I really knew then. But it wouldn’t have mattered anyway…Bob was a MAN, I was not. Bob was fit and attractive, I was not.