Page 4 of Choosing Her
Members:Bear, Tino, Crossy, Mako
Crossy
On a scale of one to ten, how sure are you this girl doesn’t have a boyfriend
I heard three phones chime from the booth behind me, then some whispering. It was loud enough in here, especially with Hanna now screaming at the boy on the phone how he was a dirt bag and she had anewboyfriend to buy her dresses (and Idesperately hoped she wasn’t talking about me), that I couldn’t make sense of what my friends were saying. But a text came through a moment later.
Mako
Maybe a two?
Crossy
Why would you send me on a date with her then???
Mako
She didn’t TELL me she had a boyfriend!
But it definitely sounds like it from the phone conversation
Great, they could hear everything she was saying too. How many other people in the restaurant were leaning in for a listen as well? If I wasn’t the one involved in the situation, I definitely would be.
Crossy
I am going to kill you for this.
Mako
Again, she didn't tell me
And don't blame me, I'm trying to break your stupid Saylor Curse
Not my fault that you got yourself in this mess
I rolled my eyes and put my phone back down. I guess he was right that it wasn't entirely his fault that I was in this mess, but he was the one who had come up with this stupid solution that I wasn’t convinced could work. There was no way I was ever going to meet a true love on one of these dates. Not only because ofthe great improbability of it, but also because I knew in my heart that I had met my real true love—and none of this would work until I got over her.
I thought Mako might have been right about this whole Saylor Curse thing, but I didn’t think the solution wasn’t finding true love’s kiss. The solution was getting over her, and more importantly, finding some way to make her stop hating me. Knowing how much I’d hurt her, and that she was still in pain from it, meant that I could never let go of her. I was always replaying how that night had gone, wishing there was some way I could go back and undo it. I’d agreed to trying out this dating idea in the hopes that I might fall for someone else, but it was still only half the equation, and I had no idea what I could do to make Saylor stop hating me.
Bear
Does anybody else think it sounds like she's getting back together with her boyfriend on the phone?
I turned my attention back to the girl who I realized I had been tuning out for a second as I was focused on my friends, and listened to her talking again. She was still crying and screaming, but now she was saying “I love you so much!” and “Yeah, I can meet you there.”
Okay, so maybe Bear was right. She probably was getting back together with her boyfriend.
“Maybe I should go,” I whispered to her. I figured I might as well give her an out, so she could dal with this. I thought she would jump on it, but she just held up her finger like she was making me wait. I froze, the wordsI hope this goes well for youstuck on my lips, and looked around, as if one of the other patrons at the diner was going to explain to me how to get outof this. Everyone seemed to be politely acting like they weren’t listening, even though most of the tables were suspiciously quiet and I thought I saw some people leaning in like they were eavesdropping.
I could probably just get up and walk away, leaving this girl to deal with her relationship drama on her own, but it felt a little rude to just get up and leave without saying goodbye. Sure, she was getting back together with her boyfriend while we were on our first date, but I should still be a gentleman.
So I sat and waited. Even as she started crying anew again, told her boyfriend how much she loved him, that she never meant it when she said she wanted to break up, and that of course she wanted to go home with him to see his family.
Yeah, she definitely would not be breaking this curse—even if she was somehow actually my true love, I didn’t see this date ending with a kiss.
I sat there for another five minutes before I realized that I really could not just stay here until this conversation was over because it seemed never-ending. One minute she would be telling him how much she loved him and she wanted to see him, and then the next she was saying that she wasn't sure if she could forgive him for what he said and that he was gonna need to work through those issues.
Crossy
