Story Time

“Once upon a time there was a boy. And of course there was a girl too. When there’s a boy there’s always a girl. The heterosexuals try to take over the real world and they’ve taken over the fictional world as well… That’s another rant for another day.

“As I was saying, there was a boy and a girl. The boy was a dick. Of course. He liked this girl a bit. But he mainly just saw her as a play thing. Something to mess around with and get some action from. He would say sweet things to get her to do whatever it was he wanted. He’d kiss her in all the right places. He’d even “waste” some of his precious time holding this girl. He knew the longer he was nice to her, the more he’d get from her. He was the guy parents warn you about.

“I realize this may sound terribly sexist. But it’s not. It’s just this one guy. And hundreds of others out there. But for every one guy out there who’s an asshole, there’s a girl. I promise you, even if you’re gay you’ll have to put up with them.

“Anyways. The girl loved this guy. She loved when he held her. She thought it meant she was his everything. She thought his kisses were tiny whispers from his deepest thoughts. In her mind, every kiss was a word he could never say. In her mind, he loved her more than anything.

“It may seem like a matter of miscommunication. But that’s just an excuse people make up to make themselves feel better when they lie. They were living in two different realities. What he thought was innocent and pointless, she took as everything. What she thought was love, he took as lust.

“Nothing we think is real is reality. The reality of life is somewhere in the gray between what we think and what they think.”