I'm still in shock!
I have at least two other posts to do before this one but, what the hell, I feel awful!
This weekend I decided to play the good daughter and went on a trip with the feminine side of the family: grandmother, mother and sister. It was one of those creepy group trips with old couples and lots of stops in odd places, but I was willing to behave my best because the prize was a boat cruse in the river Douro...*sigh* It turned out to be a greek tragedy!
You know how this things work: a bus full of strangers who immediately start talking to each other and having fun. I Hate it! My grandmother and mother are like that and soon they made friends. Me and my sister (she's 12) are more reserved so we just had fun together. We read Alice in Wonderland and made all the voices and draw lots of medieval ladies in her note book. Then we both noticed there was a guy about my age traveling with his parent's and seating all alone. My sister decided that he was cute (he was, in a way) and named him "Sirius Black", because he looked just like Harry Potter's godfather (Gary Oldman? We wish! But the hair was long enough for me to see a certain resemblance).
After that, my sister could not take her eyes of him, and he could not take his of ME! I kept to myself... OK, I may have looked that way once or twice but it was only because everybody else was older than me, I was a bit bored and the guy had long hair... I'm weak, I know... The point is, soon after that, he was everywhere! He was following me! I tried to keep a low profile but my grandmother noticed him staring at me and even made a joke about it. All fine until now.
On day two we were supposed to travel by train up river and then take the boat to Porto. On the train he begun to look at me in a way I wished I had choose a less provocative shirt. If I ever felt flattered, now I wished he would stop! I was worried with grandma, who is very conservative, made my life hellish when I was a teenager, and kept looking at both of us like if we were criminals. She was defending Highlander's property!
My sister was having the time of her life... Sirius Black fancied her sister!
I knew he was going to start talking to me very soon, I could only hope he chose is timing right. He did. I was on the upper part of the boat with my sister because we wanted to see the passing of the dam. He started commenting about the mechanical process we were watching and the minute after he was asking my name. What could I do? According to my grandmother I should have told him:"I'm sorry, I can't talk to you, I have a boyfriend". I did not such thing, of course! I'm not rude, everybody was having fun and making friends, the view was amazing, I'm a responsible adult and besides, we weren't doing anything wrong! Why not be polite and have a nice chat? I swear I wasn't flirting! COME ON... my sister was with me!
After that everything turned black. My grandmother spotted us talking! She grabbed my harm and took me away from him to lecture me. I wanted to die! If you could just hear her you would think me such a whore! I was devastated! My grandmother is one of my favorite people in the world, she raised me! Now she was mistaking me for someone I was not! How could I? She would never let me! My conduct has always been morally correct (whatever that means...) even when my thoughts are not... Suddenly I didn't know her anymore. I'm still confuse now.
We all stopped having fun, the boat trip was ruined. I could not take a step that she wouldn't follow me about, looking at me with suspicious eyes. I had to explain Sirius that I couldn't talk to him anymore and that he shouldn't be near me. I was so ashamed and furious, but my grandmother is 82, I can't afford to make her nervous... How could she think I was interested in that guy!
I will not continue to describe the other scenes she caused during the rest of the trip, I'm too sad for that, you just need to know it was awful.
When I came home I told everything to Highlander, who supported me. He's The man, how could he ever be threatened by something like this?
I'm seeing my grandmother tonight, We still haven't talked since last Sunday and the last words I said to her were: "Don't you talk to me unless you want to apologize"
This must be a bad dream.
This weekend I decided to play the good daughter and went on a trip with the feminine side of the family: grandmother, mother and sister. It was one of those creepy group trips with old couples and lots of stops in odd places, but I was willing to behave my best because the prize was a boat cruse in the river Douro...*sigh* It turned out to be a greek tragedy!
You know how this things work: a bus full of strangers who immediately start talking to each other and having fun. I Hate it! My grandmother and mother are like that and soon they made friends. Me and my sister (she's 12) are more reserved so we just had fun together. We read Alice in Wonderland and made all the voices and draw lots of medieval ladies in her note book. Then we both noticed there was a guy about my age traveling with his parent's and seating all alone. My sister decided that he was cute (he was, in a way) and named him "Sirius Black", because he looked just like Harry Potter's godfather (Gary Oldman? We wish! But the hair was long enough for me to see a certain resemblance).
After that, my sister could not take her eyes of him, and he could not take his of ME! I kept to myself... OK, I may have looked that way once or twice but it was only because everybody else was older than me, I was a bit bored and the guy had long hair... I'm weak, I know... The point is, soon after that, he was everywhere! He was following me! I tried to keep a low profile but my grandmother noticed him staring at me and even made a joke about it. All fine until now.
On day two we were supposed to travel by train up river and then take the boat to Porto. On the train he begun to look at me in a way I wished I had choose a less provocative shirt. If I ever felt flattered, now I wished he would stop! I was worried with grandma, who is very conservative, made my life hellish when I was a teenager, and kept looking at both of us like if we were criminals. She was defending Highlander's property!
My sister was having the time of her life... Sirius Black fancied her sister!
I knew he was going to start talking to me very soon, I could only hope he chose is timing right. He did. I was on the upper part of the boat with my sister because we wanted to see the passing of the dam. He started commenting about the mechanical process we were watching and the minute after he was asking my name. What could I do? According to my grandmother I should have told him:"I'm sorry, I can't talk to you, I have a boyfriend". I did not such thing, of course! I'm not rude, everybody was having fun and making friends, the view was amazing, I'm a responsible adult and besides, we weren't doing anything wrong! Why not be polite and have a nice chat? I swear I wasn't flirting! COME ON... my sister was with me!
After that everything turned black. My grandmother spotted us talking! She grabbed my harm and took me away from him to lecture me. I wanted to die! If you could just hear her you would think me such a whore! I was devastated! My grandmother is one of my favorite people in the world, she raised me! Now she was mistaking me for someone I was not! How could I? She would never let me! My conduct has always been morally correct (whatever that means...) even when my thoughts are not... Suddenly I didn't know her anymore. I'm still confuse now.
We all stopped having fun, the boat trip was ruined. I could not take a step that she wouldn't follow me about, looking at me with suspicious eyes. I had to explain Sirius that I couldn't talk to him anymore and that he shouldn't be near me. I was so ashamed and furious, but my grandmother is 82, I can't afford to make her nervous... How could she think I was interested in that guy!
I will not continue to describe the other scenes she caused during the rest of the trip, I'm too sad for that, you just need to know it was awful.
When I came home I told everything to Highlander, who supported me. He's The man, how could he ever be threatened by something like this?
I'm seeing my grandmother tonight, We still haven't talked since last Sunday and the last words I said to her were: "Don't you talk to me unless you want to apologize"
This must be a bad dream.