OKAY. I'm still not in the mood to write about this or whatever. I usually write when I'm feeling in the mood to do so, but... I just can't seem to write anything because I just don't feel like it. But I'll write for the sake of writing everyday. My Literature Professor told me to get better at writing, I must do it everyday, so... here's to writing everyday! That, and more notes on my "spectacles" notebook keep on piling up, so I guess its now or never.
Anyways, I still remember it even though it happened a week ago. I remember how I felt, and I guess I remembered everything that happened.
Friday came, so I was all excited to study with her, right? After class is 2:30 p.m. I was to study with her at 2:30 p.m. then, but however in the library while checking my email I get an email from her saying... LOL I'm going to copy and paste it. Fuck her privacy. She lost her phone and... " I wont get back to hayward until 4 ish so if you still want to meet up to study at that time but if not i understand. Sorry about that time change." Then I'm like, okay okay okay fine fine, I'll stay in school until the last shuttle bus comes, which is 6:50.
I study in the library until 4:30, and then the library guy comes and says they close in 30 minutes! So I'm like oh shit, I didn't know that, I guess the library closes early on Fridays. So then I go up on the roof of the library and I call her that the library is closing. She's on her way, and will be over here in maybe 10 minutes or so, but then I tell her we can't study since the library is closing. Then she tells me that we'll just study in her dorm, and I'm like, okay fine sure whatever...
Her dorm. Holy shit, wtf. Anyways, she picks me up across the street from the library. But I don't walk across the street. I use the cross walk. wtf, I'm not jaywalking, bitch. So I walk all the way to the end of the street, use the cross walk to cross over, and she drives over to me because... across the street she is parked on the red zone. (At this point, my attraction to her is going down... going down fast. Parking at the red zone, if we have a family, our insurance will go up because one of these days, I know, one of these days she'll get ticketed for parking in the red zone).
So I go in her car and holy shit it's a big ass truck. But it was clean. And she was like you didn't see me?!?! And I'm like, I don't J-walk... so then we drive over to the dorms. AND she says something along the lines of my boyfriend, so in my head I'm like, oh, so you have a boyfriend. In my mind it was "blahblahblahboyfriend" lol. And then when we get out she's like sorry I don't have any make-up on, and I'm like wtf in my head, so girls think they have to apologize if they're not wearing make up and they always have to wear it? But whatever, maybe its just her, but instead I said "oh okay it's fine" because that thought in my head was like too long to express right away, and it wasn't that organized still because, well, its jumbled because she has a boyfriend and whatnot.
Then I go in her dorm, and trying to be natural and stuff I'm like "woah this is weird, wearing shoes inside a residential place" because you know, us Asians never take off our shoes in houses, but I guess in the dorms they leave their shoes on. She's dorming with two other black girls, and she hardly ever goes to her dorm.
And it wasn't awkward! It wasn't awkward at all. She didn't even prepare either, so it was like I was monitoring her to study the whole time, but in between, you know how I'm like naturally curious about the people I hang out with, I press for information... well not really press, but ask information from her in the moments I feel that are appropriate. This is what I've gathered:
Her mom died of breast cancer. Her dad cheated on her mom when she had breast cancer. Her mom didn't say anything about her breast cancer until she hugged her mom and felt the lump and died nine years ago. Her mom was also very nice til the end, and didn't get mad when she found out her husband was cheating on her. She also has a step brother, from an affair her dad had. She lost her phone at a bar using her cousin's fake ID. She's taking four other classes. She smoked pot once.
She's understanding. She apologizes a lot. She's trying to be nice, because her mom was nice, she's trying to live in the spirit of her mom.
What I found interesting when she was getting to know me was that of her conclusions: "You're shy". I guess I am, but in my mind I was like wtf do you know about me, you don't know me. "You don't talk to girls." Where did she get that from? lol, it was only today when I started to get to know her. "You never smoked weed? You live in an area where you're around people or whatever like that all the time" Not her exact words, but my response was that... I stay at home and sleep all day. That's what I tell people when they ask me what I do.... "stay at home and sleep all day". It's kind of true I guess. I lied once, saying that I'm okay with it and I'm not sad about it. I'm lying that "I'm not sad." Fuck yeah I'm sad! Then she asked if I was gay, and I was like no! Do I sound gay? And she was like NO!! I like this though, she was very blunt, no hesitations on her judgment about me.
I think I've gained a good friend, but its just so weird. I feel like pressing her for more information. I felt heartbroken at times but it's okay, I have
Monte, Bitter Heart, First of the Gang to Die, and I Am Me Once More on my Ipod. Damn, being indifferent helps me a lot. Just makes me feel very cool. She even drove an hour and a half to study with me, and she's traveling back that night to SF, because I assume she usually sleeps at her boyfriend's. Three hours on the road just to study with me though?!?! On a fucking huge ass Hummer-like truck that consumes hella gas (but it was a Toyota, I'm not a car person)? So she's very nice, or trying to be nice*, or just plain fucking stupid, but it's fine, it was interesting. Definitely note-taking worthy. Why stay on the road for
three hours to study with me when you're
unprepared? Hmmm? But whatever, I guess she misses her mom so much so she's trying to be really nice and whatnot but whatever.
Riding her truck to the train station, we talked a lot.... about just life. I could never talk to someone who understands me like her. The conversation was going both ways... at least I think it was. I felt it was a real conversation, a conversation I haven't had in months. I felt that I understood her and she could understand me. No one ever understands me. This was a real conversation about life. But whatever, she has a boyfriend, so she's now just a really good friend. She said bye, and I said bye back flashing a really big departing smile, and she mirrored the smile back.
Genuinely nice, she's not genuinely nice but probably just forcing herself to be nice?... and I remember trying to be nice, but then always reverting back to my disdain for the general public and reclusive personality where I just want to be left alone most of the time. Yeah, going out of your way by so much to help someone can't be genuine... it can't be, she has to be forcing it. But maybe she was trying to live like her mom... I wonder how she'd react if I told her... maybe your mom was trying to be nice because she thought she was going to heaven if she was nice like that? Or maybe that's what you really wish for when you're dying, you wish that all your issues with people are resolved.
I left very satisfied. Though when I got home, it took me two days to feel back to the same me. It's so weird though, usually in situations like this I would cry, but I didn't. I guess I'm growing more resistant to having my heart hurt? lol but anyway, that day was a very good day, and I think I'll always remember it.
So many times when I feel close, or when God finally decides to lay something out for me, I don't even get close at all, not even in the relationship. It's always happening before it. Maybe its fate that I'm not supposed to be in a relationship ever, and that... I'mthereincarnationofJesusandI'msupposedtoneverbeinarelationshiplikehim. BUT SORRY FATE, I'll always like girls and I think I'll be in a relationship sometime! Or not, maybe I'll always like girls but never get into a relationship.
Anyways though, she's not the one, but she definitely has the potential to be a very good friend. I like people who try to be nice, even though I don't like stupid people, it's weird because I guess I like stupid nice people. Maybe it's just stupid mean people that I don't like. Yeah, that's probably it. I dislike stupid mean people! Or stupid arrogant people. Or just people. And I'm people. So I guess I hate myself... ha... ha... ha.