C & Arrow
So C and Arrow have had two big fights in the past month. The first one was because, well… okay this is going to take a lot to explain. Let me first move onto Elf and Boxer, because although they are not the root of the problem, they are part of it (although they don’t know that). C and I have watched Elf and Boxer as a couple for almost 4 months now. They’re super cute when they’re together, and they really like one another, although they never make out in front of people. At least they have some propriety. Anyway, I think C was very jealous because she used to be best friends with Boxer and Elf kind of took him away from C. Although C never though of Boxer as boyfriend material, she really liked him being one of her best friends. But Now Boxer and Elf are pretty much inseparable and are always hanging out together. They’re basically never apart. And C has watched this and she hates it. She even told me she doesn’t want to be like that with Vodka.
But to be quite honest, she is. I’ve been seeing a lot of her lately, basically every weekend for the past 3 months because we’ve been hanging out with Vodka, Apple and sometimes Roman. But she hasn’t really been seeing any of her other friends (from what they’ve told me). So Arrow, who is admittedly not the brightest crayon in the box, told her this. He told her that she should leave some time for her friends because she was neglecting them. He is very blunt. I think normally, someone would be able to take this like a man, and realize, yeah, they haven’t been seeing much of their friends and try to fix the situation. Instead, C, who has the worst temper known to man, just cold shoulders him for the next two weeks. Although she doesn’t directly fight or do anything very visible, things happen under the surface. She tells all of his friends (including me) what he said and how hurt she is by is, and of course everyone wants to comfort her and tell her that’s not how things are at all. But they say this not because it’s the truth, but because we’re all so scared of her, that if we actually say “Well, he’s right.”, then her temper will turn on us and be about ten times worse. So she sets a really deadly trap for us. It’s kind of hard to explain it in words… all I can say is that if you knew her, you would understand.
Two weeks later, she finally decides to forgive him. And when I say forgive, I mean pretend everything is alright, even though she’s still angry about it, and instead, she’ll bring it up one or two years later in a conversation in order to guilt trip you into doing something for her. Or just to make you feel bad because you may have said something to offend her that day. That is how C is.
But now Arrow’s done something else (god have mercy on his soul, because I don’t think he’s going to get far in life if he’s so emotionally stupid). He has to do a project for some class, and he has to do it on dysfunctional families and how you can tell if a family is dysfunctional just from looking at five of their family pictures. So he goes and asks C if he can have 5 of her family pictures. Of course, she asks why, and once again he’s blunt and to the point, saying that he has to do a project on dysfunctional families and he thought hers was the perfect one to choose. She was absolutely livid, and now isn’t talking to him again. Of course, he tells me about it because I’m one of her two best friends (the other being Elf). He says he wants to apologize immediately. Normally this might be a good idea (although not always). But in C’s case, this definitely is not the best course of action. What you need to do with her is just let her cool off for a few days and then apologize. And when I say apologize, I mean grovel your little brains out, because she won’t accept anything else. You have to do the human equivalent of a dog rolling onto it’s back, showing it’s stomach and whining. Seriously.
Although I’m terrified of C and whether or not she gets angry at me, at the same time I feel very sad for her. She keeps all her friends through fear. Although there are some really good parts about her, as I said, sometimes the bad overrides the good so much, that you can barely even notice it.
To be honest, hanging out with her so often for the past 3 months has been like walking on egg shells. I know I can’t let her get angry at me, otherwise I won’t be able to see Apple. Because Apple and I haven’t gotten on the basis of hanging out with each other one on one. It’s always her and Vodka that hang out and then she invites me and he invites Apple. Even though we know this is exactly how things are going to turn out, if she were to get angry at me, I wouldn’t be able to see Apple at all. And that’s the only reason I’ve been getting along with her so well for such a long time.
Anyway, I’m sorry for my rambling. I really do tend to do that. But there’s so much more to talk about in the time that I haven’t written. I’ll tell you about my weekend in the country with four handsome men and C next time. For now…
Peace
