Has there ever been someone that you had a thing for and no matter how many years went by, you never got over them
when I was 7 I was enamored of this girl that was my best friend at the time.
she was awesome, we liked a lot of the same things, she loved He-Man cartoons for some reason, and peanut butter and...well, all the stuff kids like, so it really wasn't that remarkable. but to my 7 year old brain she was the best thing since bread came sliced.
we sat together in class all the time, but alas, I used to be ( and to a certain degree still am) a huge spazz. so, it wasn't long before I had a mutual friend ask her if she liked me.
haha! how was I to know that I was caught in a second grade version of "as the world turns" the kid that was to ask her the question liked her as well, and he intended to keep her for himself.
DUN DUN DUN!
so, he came back telling me all sorts of horrible things, he made her sound like a freaking nightmare, I blame soap operas because no normal 7 year old could have been so Machiavellian.
so I got pissed off at her ( or the second grade equivalent, which I guess is "miffed") for a long time and the friendship dissolved, on the upside, the other kid got nowhere with her and several years later turned out to be gay.
haha! fate sides with me again.
oddest thing? that completely polluted all my interactions with girls all the way through the 7th grade, and even though I had put the puzzle together like a year after the fact I could never trust people again, sounds silly but really, the early experiences are the ones that get you the most.
plus, years later I saw her as a teenager and she was completely disappointing, even though she wore the standard catholic schoolgirl attire that many a 12 year old fawned over, she was completely underwhelming and I decided to file that one away and remember my brief stint as lovelorn protagonist.
however, If I had been a Ben Folds fan back then, I would've simply said:
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*warning kiddies*....really bad language, don't click lest your ears fall off and the demons of hades haunt your dreams at night.....no seriously.....horrible language)
(horrible....)
(for reals....yo.)