The Most Eager Boy Ever
When I was 16, I worked at a department store in the mall. On a particularly slow day I saw an acquaintance from my high school wandering towards my department. There were two guys with her that I’d never met before. I said hello to them. One of the guys stopped and stared at me wide-eyed before exclaiming: “Oh my god. You are GORGEOUS! You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen! Oh wow, can I have your number?”
His forwardness took me completely off guard. To be honest, I had very little dating experience so part of me was really flattered. It did seem a bit strange but the fact that he was with a “friend of a friend” put me somewhat at ease and I gave him my number.
I left work a couple of hours later. When I got home, I found about a half a dozen messages from this guy on my answering machine.
“T, where are you?” “T, it’s ____ when do you get home?” “T, it’s ____ call me right away!”
Now, an experienced and worldly woman would think to herself “Wow, this guy is a complete f*cking psycho.” But inexperienced 16-year-olds are great at smothering internal alarm bells. So I called the guy.
Surprisingly, the phone conversation went very well. We liked similar movies and similar music. He actually seemed quite smart and witty. So when he suggested that we get together, I agreed.
The following weekend, we go out as a group with his friend and some of my girlfriends. He went with me, the rest of my friends and his buddy rode in another car. Throughout the drive he kept trying to hold my hand and he insisted that we kiss at every stoplight. This made me quite uncomfortable. I tried to gently put the breaks on his advances which seemed to really tick him off. He started going on about “where I saw us going” and “what I wanted out of the relationship” and such. I told him that I hadn’t a clue and I really wasn’t interested in anything serious.
Later that night, he pulls me aside and says to me, “It’s obvious that you and I want different things. Will you hook me up with your friend A*****?”
I was disgusted. The only response I could muster was to shout: “Hook yourself up!”
And so, he did. He started pursuing A***** that night and for some reason she was even more in denial then I had been. She actually ended up dating him for a couple of months! That’s how long it took for her to realize that yes, he truly was a total loser. I think the last straw was when he got wasted at one of her A*****’s parties and he started harassing me. I guess he was still bitter about the fact that I rejected his ridiculously premature advances.
