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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 20 2010, 02:34 PM (36 Views) | |
| NathanielBlack | Mar 20 2010, 02:34 PM Post #1 |
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"I HAD to get her back". That was what I kept repeating over and over in my head outside her house. It had only been a few days since Celine broke-up with me complaining about something that didn't make any sense; "You're too nice" or something like that. We'd been together for eight months until then and she NEVER complained about it. Even then, she could have picked a better place to tell me than in the middle of a crowded diner on the busiest part of my shift. I was upset at first, but when I calmed-down I decided I would try to win her back. The setting couldn't be any more perfect: it was late afternoon in the dimming light, late into Fall with all the leaves turning the landscape various shades of brown and here I was, standing outside her bedroom window, with my gray trench coat and a little black boom box. Mistake number ONE: "Reenacting 'Say Anything' when they've never even seen the movie". Of course, I wouldn't find this out till someone else told me later on. How was I to know she'd never seen the movie? Sure, she was only a little kid when it came out -- but I was too and i've seen it several times without even TRYING. It's like one of those movies you can't avoid -- or, then again, maybe it just SEEMED that way because I like John Cusack's acting. All the same, I had no idea when I lifted the boom box over my head and....wow, that thing was heavy....oh, sorry -- and held it toward her window that she'd never get the reference. Even so, it's pretty self-explanatory really. You didn't have to see the movie, or even be John Cusack, to clearly be making a statement of love. I wanted to show her how I felt about her; what she ment to me all this time together and how much I loved her. So, I turn the box all the way up; hold it above my head; and hit "Play". Mistake number TWO: "Replacing 'In Your Eyes' with 'Shock the Monkey'". ....OK, I admit THAT was a really BAD idea. In my defense though, I was still expecting her to get the reference to the movie I never knew she never saw. I never really owned a Peter Gabriel album and the few songs I DID own where either CD singles or MP3s. The boom box itself only played CDs and cassettes and I didn't have any blank CDs to burn from my computer with. I even went to every music store in town but NO ONE had a copy. By the time I realized I could have just bought the blank CDs; went home; got the song; burned it to disk; and gone to her house it was already too late in the afternoon and I only had the one song I grabbed on the way out sitting next to the boom box. I can only imagine what it was like to suddenly hear "Shock the Monkey!" booming into the windows from outside. What's worse is i've seen the very same thing done before -- which didn't end well either. WHY I thought it would be any different for me is still something I haven't figured out. Halfway through the song -- right around the break in the lyrics actually -- I was beginning to doubt this even had a chance in Hell of working anymore considering how bad it had turned out so far. As luck would have it, just before I gave up the curtains in the window moved and the window itself opened. It was the first thing that went right so far and with bated breath I finally had a chance to plead with her to reconsider.... Mistake number THREE: "Doing all the above -- outside the wrong window". "Hey, 'Genius' -- her room's the OTHER window" was the reply I received loudly over the music from Sabrina; Celine's mousy younger sister. The entire time i'd been going out with Celine I never actually met Sabrina since she preferred to avoid her sister's boyfriends. She looked a little like her sister actually, but a little younger and more "intellectual" than glamorous with the glasses she wore. "Besides, isn't that supposed to be 'In Your Eyes' there, 'Lloyd'?" she also quipped back at me. Before I could even snap out of my stupor and respond to her Celine's window suddenly shifted open -- and out leaned Tony Ehsner, Quarterback and all-around major A-hole for the football team. "Hey! LOSER! Turn that weird perv crap off and get lost, FREAK!" he bellowed threateningly while I just stood there like a complete idiot. "Leave him alone, you brain-dead Neanderthal; He can't help having bad taste like you". I wasn't sure if I should take that as an insult or a backhanded compliment. It was embarrassing enough that I stood outside the wrong window, but now I had some asinine jock yelling at me -- from CELINE's bedroom window. I could have done alot of things just then. I could have told him what he could do with himself in so-many four-letter words -- and made a new enemy i'd always have to watch my back for. I could have screamed past him and called Celine something degrading -- which would destroy any chance of getting back together with her and have ME feeling bad, assuming she was even listening. I could have hopped back into my car and drove off a---WAIT! It was right about then I came up with a plan to get even with Celine.... "Who the hell said I was talking to you, dumbass?" I said to Tony, turning my attention back to Sabrina, "SO? You doing anything tonight?".... Mistake number FOUR....? Absolutely; it should have been. What could have been a bigger mistake than using someone's sister to make them jealous in a situation like this? Make it seem like I was already done with Celine and hitting on her sister? I was about to find out.... "No" she answered back to me, rather coolly. Whoa. I think she was calling my bluff. Well, i'd already stepped this deeply into it, stink and all. "Then grab your coat and let's go, 'Diane'" I said back, hoping to provoke some response from Celine in the other window....but instead Sabrina unceremoniously closed her window and Tony slammed his while calling me something homophobic I think. I didn't have time for the defeat to sink in and sulk in the driver's seat before Sabrina ACTUALLY came out and got IN the car. She DID realize I was using her to get to Celine, right? Ultimately I just didn't care. I already totally screwed-up my best plan and even worse was the fact TONY was there. No-WAY-in-HELL that was a coincidence and....well, I was just too depressed to even bother telling her to get out of the car. I just started the car and drove.... What was mistake four, you might ask? Well, I guess it really depends on your point of view. After a long, quiet drive around nowhere for awhile that lead to dinner at the aforementioned diner it turned out that Sabrina and I had alot in common. While I was still trying to make Celine jealous through Sabrina, the so-called "date" went so well we decided on another in the future. Sure enough, two more "dates" with Sabrina later Celine came back to me, dumping Tony and telling me she made a horrible mistake leaving me and didn't appreciate me like she should -- and I forgave her. Too bad I still had to reject her offer. Some would say my "fourth mistake" was using Sabrina to get Celine back; some would say it was trying to reenact a movie from the late eighties; some might even say it was in going out with Celine to begin with.... I think if I actually made ANY mistake at all -- it was that I didn't try doing this sooner. You see, by the time Celine came back I was already SERIOUSLY involved with a new girl. She was a little younger; was a fan of cheesy eighties romance flicks, including anything with John Cusack; read everything from E.E. Cummings to Aristotle to MAD magazine; was VERY shy except for the first time we really met; and looked REALLY cute in glasses. Her name happened to be "Sabrina" -- and i've never wanted for another woman since. So, that's my story. What began as three mistakes to someone I thought was my true love -- turned into the same three mistakes that lead me to my TRUE love. Go figure. Oh, and for anyone wondering.... Celine wasn't too happy with being rejected, but she eventually got over it. She especially cheered-up when she started going out with an Axel Rose wannabe and they hit it off. We even eventually started speaking again not too long after. So, ultimately, things worked out for the better for her too. Tony? Turns out he was going through Celine's underwear drawer that day and she decided to break up with him right then and there. Last I heard he was arrested during a panty raid and serving several months community service. This from a guy calling ME a perv. Guess it takes one to know one. As for Me and Sabrina? We're still together -- one year this month. I eventually told Sabrina why I went out with her the first time -- and she knew all along. Turns out SHE was just using me to get even with Celine too. Lucky for me she didn't really care or I might have never really had the chance to get to know her. I guess someone must have been looking out for me. I wonder if John Cusack is the patron Saint of Finding True Love?.... |
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