Friday, September 10, 2010

You

I've always refrained from talking about this friend of mine, "D", because he mostly gets along with everyone and is usually the "joker" of our group of friends. I always felt that it was only me who had ill feelings towards him.
Even now I am unsure whether or not my friends share the same opinion, but I felt I needed to get out this way.

Let me start first with he looks SO much older than us. We're all Asian so we have those genes where we look younger than we actually are, but he looks SO old. Like late 30's. Anyway, I left for a year in junior high and went to another school, and went back to the high school that most of us were at, I found that he changed quite a bit.
His jokes turned into those "funny racist" ones or those "sexual funny" ones that I've never been fond of. Anyway he was fine in grade 11, in grade 12 we became closer when I started working at starbucks. It just so happened that he worked at the superstore that was really close to my start bucks, so he came and visited me a lot. I didn't mind, I mean I still hate the company and gave him free drinks all the time, but he always came at times when I had to close and there were a billion duties to do and he distracted me from them to the point where my shift said: "To be honest... if he's not your boyfriend, why do you talk to him so much?"
After that I told him and he stopped coming when I worked.
But he kept bothering me at high school, doing things I hated him doing.
I'm short, I HATE being reminded that I'm short. Yet he always did things like use my shoulders as an arm rest, which I HATED. I absolutely hated it. I even told him yet he STILL kept doing it.
Then every time we were at parties he would get as close to me as possible and just hang out around me the whole time.
You know those feelings you get when you think someone likes you? I had that feeling. He was always around and always willing to help me out with anything, and any time he needed help he always asked me first.
However I couldn't reciprocate those feelings, so I tried everything to push him away.

High school ended, we're in University now. He took a year off because he skipped one of his final exams to go to a family wedding in the Bahamas, therefore he was delayed in getting his diploma and he can't register till this year. I still worked at starbucks and one day he showed up.
It was a while since I've seen him, so we talked while I worked and we caught up pretty quickly. He then asked me: "Hey, I have a new camera, if you have time... we should go take some pictures together."
I said: "Sure, but to let you know it'll probably be the end of December, when finals are done."
After that he started coming in a lot more to visit, it became the same thing again but one day at work someone who worked with me kept petting my head.
Her reasoning was: "You're pettable. That's all."
Anyhow I saw him again right after that shift and I told him that she was crazy and kept saying that she kept petting my head.
He then proceeded to do the same thing and pet my head. I quickly backed away, telling him to stop it and that I hated it and he literally chased after me and pet my head over again.
ANGRY, I walked away and left without saying anything.

I avoided him every time he came in and a month later he sent me a text at 10PM saying: "If you could wake me up by tomorrow, that'd be great."
I usually wake up at 7AM and the time it takes me to go to the bus stop is around 8:15AM. So around 8:30AM I replied with "WHAT?", since I just say it once I got to the bus stop.
Minutes later he replies with: "Thanks a lot. Now I'm late for work."
ANGRY, I sent back a text that said: "I'm sorry. Does it look like I'm your mom? Your girlfriend? I don't think so. Who are you to tell me what time to wake you up?"
He didn't reply, and I didn't see him for months too. December came, this was around the time I handed in my 2 weeks notice at starbucks, he came in, I said hi. Told him I was busy, and then he was like: "Don't worry I'll come back next week."
I replied: "Oh, I didn't tell you did I? I'm quitting."

Fast forward to July. It was my friend's birthday. My friend "S" and I planned a small party for her and we ended up inviting people.
Turns out "S" invited "D" and he came. Just so happened that I had my road test last week, and while I was driving away I saw "D", being the nice person I am, I decided to wave while I was driving away.
I didn't pass my advanced road test for one stupid reason, so I was really angry with myself and decided not to talk about it.
I saw him at the party and he asked me: "How did the test go?"
Me: How did you know?
Him: I saw your name on the list when I went to go get a permit.
Me: Oh... well yeah, I failed...
Him: Oh. What happened?
Me: It was a stupid mistake. I'd rather not say...
Him: No seriously, tell me.
Me: Uh. No. It's OK.
Him: HONESTLY! Tell me!
Me: No! It's stupid.
Him: Well then think of it as I'm learning from your mistakes!
Me: NO.
The conversation continued on like that for a while, until he finally walked away.
I wasn't very happy after that. After that I saw all the flaws and began to point out everything that I disliked about him.
I spent the rest of the party kind of sitting and eating by myself because everyone had their own groups. He then decided to SHARE a chair with me. There was space, our bodies didn't touch, but of all the space he had he decided to share a chair with me.
I was uncomfortable, but every time he inched closer, I began to move away.
After everything else I pulled out my Japanese homework, because I had a big test the next day, and started doing it. BUZZKILL? I couldn't care less.
He saw me studying and asked me to teach him Japanese. My response was obviously no, but he kept pestering me about it.
I told him to ask others, he said why not? I was already pro at it anyway.
I'm far from being "pro" in Japanese. He's friends with so many Japanese people, go get them to teach you! Or even better, buy the textbook and self learn!
He kept pestering me and in the end I stopped talking and just continued doing my work.

Since then I haven't seen him. Nor do I really want to. I'm afraid he'll bring out the really bad side of me.
However soon he is attending the same University as I am... I really don't want to bump into him during my breaks. I'd rather just be by myself than around him.

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