Chapter Two

Chapter 2: Origins of Man

            Before we start with love and all this glory, we will talk about the other crummy things in life. If you know the crummy parts of life, love that is achieved will be in a better light. Let’s start with a short and quick biography of the man. To start with, he was born in certain state, really doesn’t matter what state so I’m not going to say. He soon left that state because of his dead beat drunk of a father who was toxic to his mother. Much later in life, he found and talked to his father, who was a ward of skid row. So sometimes, the universe can correct itself with karma. The two were never close. He and his mother moved to a new state, where he spent 7 years of his life there. He stayed there till his mother’s unfortunate death. Soon after that he returned to his birth state, where he remained for the rest of the story and probably for the rest of his life. The middle of his childhood was normal and uneventful, so we will skip ahead to the good stuff. We will start at the point that started his journey of life. One filled with twist and turns, ups and downs.

Every day the man’s day started the same. He woke up early, and prepared for an extremely boring day at his school. His school was home for many stoners and underachievers but mainly just filled with past high school student’s broken dreams. The school itself had a horrible campus that was always was under construction and also sported a mascot known for being the bull with the biggest penis. Our man in this story went to this school, because he fit into the underachiever category. He became a pro at underachieving in almost every aspect of his life. He also was horribly one of the most average people you could meet. He was average height; average built, and average brains. His personality was average, and if you didn’t know him on a deep level, you really didn’t know the true him. Only two people knew the true him. He had mostly normal friends who in his mind, he only really had, to make sure he wasn’t a loner. Don’t get him wrong, he knew his friends meant the best for him but in the end, he never could enjoy having them. Also don’t think he is a phony for having friends, he did care about them and was there for them, but he just couldn’t feel enough compassion to always care about how his actions affected them. The man at this point in the story may sound like a bit of a d****e, but not to foreshadow too much but seeing his past and future events, they may show you why he acts and feels that way. So don’t judge him just yet. The man had no great skill in anything and the only thing he could remotely be good at was solving other people’s problems. Somehow, a man who never had been in a true relationship all his life, could help anyone solved their problems in any area of a relationship. He was like most people his age, never knew what he wanted to do with his life, but the one thing he wanted was a relationship. And he didn’t even care if it was a physical one which was rare for a man his age. Hopefully that statement repairs his repartition a bit from you thinking he is a d****e, that or it just shows the man was one of those average good guy loser types. His type of girl he liked was mildly hot, blonde, average height and shared some common interest. See even his taste of girls is average. But the only thing that was not average about him was his luck.

 His abnormal bad luck was mainly shown in his love life, o the sweet irony. His “lovely” relationship past was flawed and filled with awkward situations. Especially it had a lot of no win scenarios, kind of like the Detroit Lions football history. If you like sports humor that would be funny. His first serious love connection was with an extremely broken shell of a girl. Her past was very troubled, and filled with almost unimaginable things. To start with she was once pregnant, but didn’t have it. And when the man met her, she was engaged to someone else. The man and broken girl started their friendship with a strange conversion on midget clown strippers. I couldn’t make that up if I tried. The random conversions grew into a beautiful friendship. Even knowing of her ghastly past and a prepared future with another man, our man still fell in love with her, dumbass. As time passed, the man decided to confess his undying love for her. She respectfully declined being with him. Instead of allowing him to leave, she wanted to continue the friendship. The man decided he really wanted to try. Months of weird topics and deep feelings, the friendship progressed. The two even discuss moving in together after high school was over. Eventually the man was actually getting used to being just friends. Till one random day, the broken girl did what she always did when things were going well, she fucked things up. She invited the man over to her house when her parents were gone, and soon after, she stripped down in front of him. She then proceeded to make out with him. All of this started to make the man think he could be happy, not just cause he was about to get laid, he thought he finally achieved what he always wanted to have, a person to care about him. A person, he could possibly spend the rest of his life with or at least a few good months till it fizzled out like most high school relationships did. But yet in the end, a phone call changed his fortunes. A call itself by no one of importance or of any importance, but it stopped the passionate moment between the man and the broken girl. After the two had those extra seconds to think about what they were about to do, the man did one of the stupidest things he could have ever do, he told her, “All you need to know is that I love you”. And yet again, he is a dumbass. I’m not calling him a dumbass because I don’t believe in love; I just don’t think this case was really “love”. That was the first time he ever said that to a girl. Then the girl proceeded to kiss him and again get interrupted by another damn phone call. Kind of taking that as a sign and now knowing her parents would be home soon, the two got redressed and went their separate ways for the day.  The man left feeling that maybe she had chosen him to be with or at least was going to try to be with him. So being on cloud 9, he went out with friends who just laughed at the story of him being c**k blocked by a phone call. It would be nice to tell you that the next day, the man and the broken girl met up, kissed and told each other they would never leave one another, and finally the man could make the broken girl whole again. But that would be too nice and would end this story off on such a high note. But sadly, it’s not what happened, there was no damn fairy tale ending here. After that event, the friendship started a dark spiraling downfall. The beginning was when the broken girl completely ended their friendship. Next step of destruction was when the man tried to save the sinking ship of whatever you could call what they had as a relationship with a letter sent to the broken girl. But the broken girl shot down the man’s attempt and decided to put the final hole into the ship. She broke the man with her final words of insults in her horrible, destructive, soul crushing response letter.  A letter saying:

“Just to be even more crystal clear than I've already been, STOP bothering me. I've told you three times I don't want to be friends or have any contact with you whatsoever. I have absolutely no time for your childish and immature tactics at trying to make me fall in love with you. I, unlike you, am older than 12 and I really don't appreciate this bullshit. As for asking me to choose you or him, how f*****g dare you insult me by questioning my commitment to my future HUSBAND who I'm marrying ( that’s a lifetime commitment, by the way) next fall. So do the world a favor and keep your obsession with me to yourself because I don't want to hear about it anymore. I have real problems to deal with and a wedding to plan. It's ironic that you have your little messenger deliver me your note on me and him 7 month anniversary. I chose him when I was thirteen. You can't compete with that and you never will. Peace out.”

So you can imagine the sting the man felt. Just so you don’t think the man was completely stupid in the relationship, here are some facts about the broken girl and her letter. One, the man wasn’t too childish, he simply told the broken girl how he felt about her and that he wanted to be with her, as either partners or friends. Two, the man is older than 12, I know she was being slightly sarcastic in the letter but it needed to be said. Three, the broken girl was the one who stripped down in front of another man that was not her husband, can’t you love that commitment, I mean the only people that’s remotely fine with their wife getting naked for other men is if your wife is a stripper and she getting good pay for it. Four, she said she chose her man that was going to be her husband when she was 13, but she did have four boyfriends and two girlfriends before she settled with her “future HUSBAND”. O and got pregnant but another guy.  Five and final fact, was that the broken girl married her “future HUSBAND”, which only lasted a few months, then the broken girl moved to her next victim. More will be told later in this story; she will come back around, sorry for more foreshadowing spoilers, my bad.  The man did reply to the letter with:

“Well I wasn't going to reply but your letter is total bull s**t. I'm not f*****g stupid I know what commitment is and I'm not the one who questioned your commitment. And I never tried to make you fall in love with me, I knew from day 1, I wouldn't be with you, and I never made a move. And the main reason I sent you that stupid letter was because I wanted to know how our relationship was. And if your reply is how you feel then its fine, I don’t care anymore; I have been treated like s**t lately. So have a good life, I really hope you get your happiness in life, no joke. Bye”

The man took what she said to heart, he let her poisonous words take over his life. He somehow could never blame her for what she did or even feel any kind of hate towards her. Maybe it was love that blinded him. A love that may have been for a great phony side she showed him. He never could know how the broken girl really felt about him, and the man could have never found out. Because he knew he needed to make sure he lost all contact with her, which by my earlier statements may suggest he didn’t do. But in his heart, he thought the broken girl said what she said because she really had some deep feelings for him, but had to end it because she knew they could never be together. And a harsh spilt could end up making it easier on the man in the long run of life. But the more and more he asked around about her, he saw her in her true light of being a slight w***e and overall demon of a b***h. That’s why his friends will forever refer to her as, the Devil. The world may never know how she felt about him or how many licks to the center of a lollipop, f*****g owl always biting the damn thing.

           

 

Reviews

[Vanessa Rico]

The beginning of this story was a tad confusing, I must admit, as well as the font. I am not sure why it bothered me but it did. Maybe I'm old school and only like Times New Roman. As for the foreshadowing that you keep telling the reader, I think you should omit it, so they will be a bit surprised down the road. You do have quite a talent for your edgy humor, but I would love to see this in paragraph format, so it does not look like one huge paragraph. Other than a few discrepancies, I enjoy your no-holds-bar way of looking at the world.

[Bailey C. Writing]

:/ This poor guy, I really do feel for him. I hope his luck changes, he sounds like he deserves a good, nice, sweetheart of a girl who will show him that love and goodness exist and such, even for him...

[StarNinja]

Conversions? Did you mean conversations? I think you did. Anyways, this is an interesting story. And its being told through such a crafty and witty framing device. Bravo sir. You have impressed me. You sense of humor is leaning towards the awesome side, but I'll withhold judgement until further notice.

[Krystal Nicole]

I like it. Yo got me hooked!!! I cant wait to read more!!! Great write.

[A.E. Surdam]

I hope the man realizes that he deserves better. There IS someone out there for everyone, don't just settle for less, that will only lead to heartache and trouble. The only way to really heal a broken heart is sometimes to find another but do not less this fool you. Because you must truly heal your body, mind and soul. If the other person is not committed than forget about them, because they are not worth your time and effort or love.

[Colette French]

I just printed out your blog (i hope you don't mind) to read it on my way back home - I enjoy your writing so much! The storytelling is gripping (and it's third person view-point, wow! I always thought first person view-point was the most efficient), and the way you chose to name your characters works so well. I simply love it!

[Neva Flores Smith - Cha..]

I feel like I may be reading someone's life story.......this guy deserves better. Why do we chase what we can't have? Makes no sense does it?

[Just Me]

That was really good. It was vague and sometimes, as in this case, I like that kinda thing.

[LauraRenee]

Once again I am hooked! I enjoy the "foreshadowing" comments because i am one of the readers who wants to know whats coming up and it keeps me interested by telling me a little about what I can expect.

[0_o Abbie]

Really?