Garaad Darawiish
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It was the new girl at school. Everyone was basically a redneck except for a few of my friends so when she showed up one day in her plaid pants I totally fell for her. She was the manic pixie dream girl before that was a thing. I was obsessed. I would try to sit next to her in all the classes we had together. I would do push ups and situps whenever I was alone because I thought "she would probably like a guy with a great body. Or maybe not, but better not risk it." I got ripped.
She had a pretty crumby home life and her mom had moved her to my town basically to hide from her dad. I would talk on the phone sometimes with my crush when I was feeling brave (I'm in highschool at this point and still super scared of girls) but one time her mom picked up. For a little bit she thought I was her husband and she demanded to know how I found her, when she figured out I was just some dumb boy calling for her daughter, she told me never to call again and hung up on me. I freaked. When I'm stressed I run so I ran from my house in the country all the way to her house, about nine miles. I stood outside trying to work up the courage to knock on her door and tell her how I felt, but I couldn't do it. I walked to a friends house and went to sleep.
A few weeks later a friend coaxed me to go to a party with him because he said my crush would be there. She wasn't, but I met the person who would become my first girlfriend. My girlfriend had this "friend" that was always lurking around (turns out he had a crush on her) and ended up dating the girl I had a crush on for years. It was emotionally abusive and my crush is still dealing with some of the issues from that relationship today. Fast forward ten years to now: My ex girlfriend is dating her shitty "friend" and I stayed buddies with my crush. About six months ago I finally told her how I felt in high school and we went on a date, forming ten year old love-parallelogram. My feelings were still really strong for her but she didn't feel the same way, so it didn't work out. Se sera, sera. There's a lot more to this story, but you'll have to buy my all five volumes of my audio book to hear it.

She had a pretty crumby home life and her mom had moved her to my town basically to hide from her dad. I would talk on the phone sometimes with my crush when I was feeling brave (I'm in highschool at this point and still super scared of girls) but one time her mom picked up. For a little bit she thought I was her husband and she demanded to know how I found her, when she figured out I was just some dumb boy calling for her daughter, she told me never to call again and hung up on me. I freaked. When I'm stressed I run so I ran from my house in the country all the way to her house, about nine miles. I stood outside trying to work up the courage to knock on her door and tell her how I felt, but I couldn't do it. I walked to a friends house and went to sleep.
A few weeks later a friend coaxed me to go to a party with him because he said my crush would be there. She wasn't, but I met the person who would become my first girlfriend. My girlfriend had this "friend" that was always lurking around (turns out he had a crush on her) and ended up dating the girl I had a crush on for years. It was emotionally abusive and my crush is still dealing with some of the issues from that relationship today. Fast forward ten years to now: My ex girlfriend is dating her shitty "friend" and I stayed buddies with my crush. About six months ago I finally told her how I felt in high school and we went on a date, forming ten year old love-parallelogram. My feelings were still really strong for her but she didn't feel the same way, so it didn't work out. Se sera, sera. There's a lot more to this story, but you'll have to buy my all five volumes of my audio book to hear it.
