by KoolAid&Cyanide » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:53 pm
I finally got out of a rut I'd been in for about three years, guy-wise, and it was beautiful and wonderful and my life was great. I started having a small crush on another guy about three weeks ago (just before I got out of the aforementioned rut). I told a few people, maybe a few more than I should've told because I'm much too trustowrthy of people. After they found out, my friends Mackenzie and Emma appointed themselves as my wingmen, since I apparently need wimgmen since I don't actually have any classes with this guy and don't know him all too well. Emma did a fine job of it, but one day into the job (which happened to be today), Mackenzie decided being a wingman meant sending him a small paper airplane with my name and his name in a heart stating "Gale loves you". Real subtle. That was in third period, and when she told me during lunch, I kindasorta accidentally made a scene in the hallway. Like, a real honest-to-goodness scene. Everyone was watching me for a good minute, which is a lot longer than it sounds. I didn't mean to. But that's not the point. It took him until abut fourth or fifth period to figure out who I was (apparently the word he used was energetic, which is a lot better than what some people use). Then after school Mackenzie, another friend and I were hanging out in the commons area, and Mackenzie was trying to take pitures of me, which she claimed were for another friend so she could show her who I was, which was complete and utter crap because I'm in choir and youth group with the friend in question, so after the events and conversation of the day I was pretty sure they were for Darren (the guy I like). She didn't get any real good pictures, but he was standing outside waiting for his bus, and Mackenzie had to go and show him the pictures and I had to yell at her to SHUT THE EFF UP but I didn't create another scene because I'm done with that. Then, as the other friend and I walked home, his bus passed us and my friend swore she saw him looking at me and I was tempted to flip him the bird, but realised that was a stupid idea. Then as we walked farther, a few of the guys from my grade were walking out of Dairy Queen as we passed, and oneof them just had to say "Hey Gale, how's Darren going?" because I wasn't already worked up enough over this without half the school knowing (apparently he was just one person though, because he sat beside Darren in third, but I can guarantee most of our grade will know about it by the end of the week) and I had to yell at him to SHUT UP (which is becoming my slogan for the day).
It seems to most people right now that I'm making too big a deal of this and maybe I am a little bit, but it was just a small crush, and not many people, especially not Darren, were supposed to know about it. Also, besides "energetic", this now pretty much his first impression of me. And I realise now that yelling at people and creating a scene in the middle of the hallway wasn't the best way to deal with this, but I was pretty worked up at the time. And now things will probably be awkward. We'll see how things go at school tomorrow. Maybe I'll just avoid him for the next while. It can't be hard.
**EDIT** Mackenzie said he seemed kind of impressed when he saw the note, although I'm not sure how that could be. Also, no one should feel any obligation to read this, or anything else I post on this thread. I'm really rambly, and this is a good way to get my thoughts and feelings out, better than a diary because maybe some poor schmuck with nothing better to do will actually read this and care.
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