gstrife

Okay...here we go...the moment you've all been waiting for...

Part 5

My life was finally going the way I wanted it to. Work was good, friends were good, and I had the greatest girlfriend I could ever hope for. However, eventually I started noticing Lisa acting different around me. At first, she was fine with me and Jackie... she'd even joke around with me about it... For instance, one day when me and Jackie were bathing together (don't ask ) Lisa happened to show up and was waiting in Jackie's room. When we finally got out, she met us at the door and stopped me and said "Where the hell do you think you're going? Its my turn now!" and pushed me back into the bathroom We had attempted to set her up with one of my buddies named Jeff (theres 2 Jeff buddies...ones a big wannabe goth and the other is a pastor...this is the goth poser). Jeff and Lisa were fairly attracted to her and there were instant sparks, and me and Jackie thought we had done good... After a while, it started to look like they weren't working...so one night when I was chillin at Jeff's house, he came out and told me Lisa had a crush on me...and it bothered her to see me and Jackie together... This was going to cause problems. I confronted Lisa and we talked about it, but she wasn't satisfied. So, being the sadistic psycho-bitch that she is, she decided to break us up in any way she could. (I found all this out from a few VERY reliable sources). There was this guy named Cory who was a mutual friend of ours. I hadn't known him for very long, but he seemed like a pretty cool guy. In different circumstances, I'm sure we could have been good friends. Jackie, apparantly, thought he was cute, and told Lisa, then assured me that I had nothing to worry about, because she knows I'm a worrier. Anyway, apparantly Lisa and Cory had some secret meetings, who knows what they were about, and she attempted to bring the two closer together. I was never around for these meetings... But from what I've been told, Lisa would bring Jackie to a party, a resturant, a bar, whatever, and Cory would just happen to be there... Then they'd chill and talk, whatever. Lisa would always talk shit about me and make those little "Why don't you dump Tyler and date Cory" remarks... Over time, Lisa wore Jackie down... and suddenly all my inperfections were too much for her, and Lisa's manipulation won her over. After an 8 month relationship, everything came to a schreeching halt. I was destroyed. It was like the sun had set and would never rise again. As if that weren't bad enough, Lisa came to me and told me Jackie had cheated on me with Cory, and I had believe this for MONTHS afterwards. Ofcourse, Cory and Jackie hooked up... THEN, Lisa told Cory that I was trying to put Jackie on some sort of "guilt trip" even though I hadn't talked to her since they started dating, so he came to my work, dragged me out by my shirt, and started threatening me in the parking lot. So, yeah, thats not fun... After that, I guess Lisa decided she'd had her fun and knocked it off. So, things quieted down. About 4 months later, Jackie came back into my work. I couldn't look her in the eye, just treated her like any other customer. "Hello, how are you doing today? Here's your change, have a nice night." Why should I be nice to her? After all, she'd done all this horrible shit to me, it was only fair, right? From this point on, I don't know what happened on the other end of all this, but Cory called me at work and asked me to meet him for lunch so we could talk. I got there, we sat down, and he apologized for everything and told me the whole story, how Lisa had caused all the crazy shit to happen, and he swore to me that he never did anything with Jackie while we were still together, and he shook my hand and said he knew it wouldn't make things better again, but it was the best he could do... Then he paid for lunch and left. I was speechless. What do you say to that? Then, I felt bad for blowing Jackie off... She had no idea what I knew. So, I called her up and we had one last outing. She had put on a little weight since I had last seen her from being depressed after losing me (or so I'm told...) She and Cory had only lasted 2 months before they ended up with nothing but fighting. When they broke up, he called her "white trailer-trash that would never amount to anything", which really hurt her feelings. He had, however, explained to her everything Lisa had done and let her know he had talked to me, and neither of us have seen or heard from him since. On our last outing, we drove around town, then ended up back in the parking lot at work, talking and listening to the radio, in my car this time. She was snuggled up against me while we chatted... Then, we shared one last kiss before she had to go. After that, the communication tapered off once again for over a year now. I never stopped thinking about her and the times we had together, and, as you can imagine, I'd love to have that back. I know it would seem weird at first, for both of us, but I'm willing to try if she is. Lisa is out of the picture now... After Jackie found out what she did, their 10-year friendship all but disappeared. Any friend that would do that to you isn't worth your time. Now that we're atleast talking again, things will fall into place again... And then, the remaining chapters of this story will be written...