
I’m going to start this particular entry with a quote from wild ‘n out:
‘Do ya’ll know how white fairy tales start?’
‘Once upon a time’
‘Do ya’ll know how black people fairy tales start?’
‘You ain’t gonna believe dis’
(Now before I start the actual story I want to remind everyone that the names will be changed to protect those in the story)
… The other day I had a rough day… a very rough day. It started with a bad work day, going door to door selling gas, not fun… As I was on the bus coming back from an early day ( I just couldn’t pull my A game no more) I got a peculiar vibration, it was surprising and even a bit shocking… why would anyone want to call me right now?
I took a glance at the number… It was one I didn’t recognize, I hesitated to answer it. Physically I wasn’t all that tired but my soul was worn down, I didn’t know if I had the energy to pick it up. While I was pondering whether to pick up the phone or not, I saw this Asian couple who wouldn’t stop kissing each other, it seemed so… nice. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a girl who was more happy to be with anyone ever.
The phone stopped ringing, I took almost no notice. There was an Asian woman sitting next to me and our conversation went something like this:
Me: ‘ma’am would you happen to know what language those two are speaking?’
Her taking pause, looking at me almost disgusted then says: ‘Just because I’m Asian doesn’t mean I understand Korean!’
Me:’… how did you know it was Korean?’
She turned her back away from me, and I never spoke to her again.
I felt a familiar tingle… my phone was vibrating again. I looked at the call display, it was the same number. Who is this person, why are they calling me?
I picked up:
Me:’Hello…’
there was a woman’s voice on the other end
Her:’hey… how are you?’
Me:’Who is this?’
Her:’you don’t know who this is?’
She didn’t even sound shocked
Me:’No… it’d be a lot easier if you just told me’
Her:’… it’s Harmony’
Harmony was the girl I fell deeply, madly and passionately in love with before the end of summer courses, maybe it was the busty body, the honey brown skin, her understanding of fashion or maybe even the way she looked in my eyes, I didn’t know, I didn’t care, I just missed her… deeply.
Our phone conversation lasted quite a while longer, we agreed to meet up in the mall, and within 20 minutes I was there. I didn’t know what to expect, neither one of us had called each other in a while, she left to go to the East Coast for a few days where people like me and her might feel more comfortable among more… (how do I say this) Urban people. While she was gone, I worried… maybe she wouldn’t be attracted to me anymore, maybe nothing would happen between us and the last day of summer courses would mean nothing. I couldn’t tell, I just knew I wanted to see her and find out what might happen between us. I knew she was attracted to me, and I her. We just never quite sealed any agreement or anything i.e. she didn’t agree to be my girlfriend, but she did know how I felt about her, maybe that was enough.
We went tie shopping, and as I was trying on a couple ties, I caught her in the corner of my eye… smelling my tie. As creepy as that sounds, it is a biological aspect of attraction where one party smells the other party’s aroma in order to test attraction, I’m not a huge believer in pheromones, but it definitely helps. She looked at me smiled and when I tried on the tie she saw the sparkle in my eyes and said:
Her:’I love to see it when you’re happy’
Me:’how do you know I’m happy, maybe I’m just faking it’
Her:’I can see the way your eyes get when you become happy, you know you can’t lie to me’
I could try, but it wasn’t going to happen, she had a slight spell over me, now of course I wasn’t going to be some fool and speak poetry to her and tell her how I would do anything for her, but that didn’t mean I didn’t want to tell her that looking into her was like looking at a mountain top lake right before sunrise to see the shimmer right over the surface. Why did she make me feel this way? How she could look right in my eyes and know how sincere and kind I was, just by the way my eyes looked.
We had some sushi later on, there was this particularly large yam one that looked dangerous.
Me:’bet you can’t fit that whole thing in one bite’
Her:’I don’t think I’d want to, it’s so big’
she did it anyway, it was so funny that I almost choked, at which point she dared me to try it myself. So I did… It was sooooo big, how can anyone humanly swallow yam sushi? I struggled with every chop of my teeth while she giggled harder than a school girl before prom night.
Her:’told you it’s big’
Later in the day as I tried to hold her, she pushed away… softly. So I had to ask ‘Why?’, her only reply was a disappointed look away, I couldn’t understand it. I felt like one of those guys that girls think is their gay friend and as soon as he tries to make a move she says…
Her:’I have a boyfriend’
Oh my god I AM THAT GAY FRIEND……. noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, I got trapped in the dungeon of… FRIENDSHIP! I was struck, it was like feeling lightening, my energy and vigour were all gone. She defeated me. I tried my best to be happy but I couldn’t, not when she beat me at my own game. I never get rejected, EVER! she beat me, a girl finally beat me… wow, this wasn’t me.
After a hasty goodbye, I retreated home, tail between my legs, dishonored and ashamed. Why would I even think I could have her? I can read girls better than I can read English and I got an A in English. I controlled myself the best I could, I tried to forget the six hours I spent waiting for her at the airport from Baltimore, or the mornings when she made me breakfast of burnt toast and eggs.I kept it together pretty well… at first
I was sitting on the bus stop bench waiting for my bus at a very large bus loop when I noticed… the girl next to me was crying so I told her:
Me:’Whatever you’re going through can’t be as bad as me’
Her:’Trust me I don’t want to compete’
Me:’The girl I’m in love with, chose a drug dealer over me’
This got her attention, not that I noticed… I finally realized, it was the first time it hit me… she CHOSE him over me, she knew she could have had me, I even told her before she left but she didn’t care, I started to feel a wave of emotion wash through me, I couldn’t even hear the comforting words of the girl next tome until…
Her:’I'm a lesbian, I was crying before because my girlfriend and I had the biggest fight’
I wasn’t even surprised… I didn’t even care. She started to tell me how things were going with her and that everything would be better. She pulled me into her chest and held me telling me everything was going to be alright. I quickly pulled away.
Me:’I don’t tend to hold strangers I don’t know’ (a complete lie)
Her:’it’s okay… I get a good vibe from you, you’re a Libra right?’
Me:’… yeah’
Her:’see I’m an Aquarius, we’re both air signs so we totally get along’
Wow, seriously that’s her reasoning?
I continued to talk, to tell her everything, I was sad, very very sad, I couldn’t help it. It was like having a guardian angel (like the little known show Touched by an Angel). Something like 20 minutes into the bus ride I noticed, the entire left side of the back of the bus was just as sad I was. There was a brunette with piercings being held by her other friend with tears in her eyes, a teenager only a few years younger than me with the unmistakable look of lost lover in his eyes, how depressing?
Charlotte:’You need to cry’
Me:’what?’
Charlotte:’seriously you need to cry, or it won’t feel better, it’ll just get worse’
What kind of weird girl advice was this crap. I wasn’t going to cry over this, just because a girl left me for a drug dealer didn’t mean I had to have fountains run from my eyes! When our stop came it started to rain. I realized I was a few stops over, we sat down on the grass and we started talking… and talking… and talking… until finally it happened, I couldn’t control it, the tears streamed from my eyes, the emotion welled up inside me and the feelings overwhelmed me… why? We were so happy, she seemed to really love me, she waited outside my apartment for 6 hours, she brought me roses!Charlotte held me in her arms and told me everything was going to be alright. I couldn’t handle it, when the tears started to slow, I gently stepped away and began to walk home.
The road seemed filled with lost tales of love and dreams of long gone happiness… As I continued on the broken road with wilting roses I felt a tap on my shoulder, as I turned around, I saw Charlotte in the pouring rain with her sweater hood over her curly locks of brown hair with a small smile saying
Her:’Do you want to walk me home’
Me:’I don’t know… it’s getting late’
I checked my time, it was creeping on twelve.
Her while still smiling:’I have coffee at home’
I realized I could probably just call a taxi from her place, maybe everything would be just fine. We walked, and talked. I tried my best to be happy go lucky, but I couldn’t I just seemed like a downer, why she wanted to walk around all night with a downer is beyond me.When we got to her house, I told her that I”ll just wait outside and call a cab, she shook her curly haired head furiously refusing, saying it would make her a bad host.
When I did get inside, before offering me a blanket,
she said: ‘Want me to show you how lesbian kiss?’
Me:’I don’t think it’s a good idea it’s seems like it’s on purpose and I wouldn’t want you to cheat on your girlfriend’
Her:’well you did “accidently” walk me home and “accidently” came in my house for coffee, so why don’t you “accidently” kiss a lesbian? don’t worry nothing will happen’
Turns out it includes a lot of tongue (and trust me there’s no such thing as too much tongue), for a moment I almost forgot all about Harmony, then to make sure I did forget all about Harmony,
She said:’I've never been with a boy before…’
I never did catch that cab home, nor did I sleep at all that night. On a final note it turns out there’s no problem that can’t be solved with one of two solutions:
1. Killing a drug dealer (seriously what cop would put you away for cleaning up the streets?)
2.Sleeping with a Lesbian(cures everything, even Cancer)