stabbed! in the back! PART 2!!! (via playwrite style)
here goes...
the Cast of Characters:
Me- also known as Cat, Chat, Catemo, or Caitlin. You should know who I am if you are reading this.
Amanda- My best friend, and kinda-crush. (she is the girl who made me realize I wasn't exactly straight) also, clinically depressed and going to a therapist. Not currently on medication for her depression.
Trent- ex-boyfriend who I still have feelings for.
Vince- Renee's boyfriend, Amanda's former/current crush.
Renee- Vince's girlfriend. Friend of mine and Amanda's.
(note: renee and vince were set up by Amanda, despite the fact that she liked Vince at the time. Now, she is very depressed by the situation.)
Nathan- has a crush on Amanda, who doesn't like him back, except in a friendly fashion. However, she is still a total bitch to him.
Act 1, scene 1, in which Amanda makes me feel bad.
ok, I got Amanda "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" for Christmas. I thought she'd really be able to relate to it, and maybe it would cheer her up. I wanted her present to be perfect because I want her to feel better. She seemed to really like the book, but now she has this insane notion that she should give the book away to NATHAN, because then he could send it to someone and so on. For one, I dont' think Nathan would give it to anyone else, and for two, I GOT THAT BOOK FOR AMANDA. I wrote her a goddamn note on the inside cover, that was meant to make her feel better. Now she wants to just give it away? god.
Act 1, scene 2, in which Amanda makes me feel bad... again.
OK, so one of Amanda's favorite past times as of late, is reminiscing about how she got Vince and Renee together, and then feeling sorry for herself because she could've had Vince, yet she backed down for Renee. Anyway, while she was contemplating this (and telling me the story for the millionth time) she went back into this story about the football game that she went to last year with Vince and Renee, and how she felt out of place because she didn't have a boyfriend, and then Vince said that it didn't matter if she had a boyfriend or not, because everyone thinks she's hot anyway. (or something like that) And Amanda proceeded to tell me that "Vince was the only person who was reaching out to me that WHOLE TIME. He really CARED, ya know?"
Ok, now excuse me. But am I wrong to think that Vince is NOT the only person "reaching out" to her? Because of one time that he was nice to her, she automatically sees him as the one who's "there for her." So let's compare:
Vince- says ONE thing to Amanda.
Me- listens to Amanda, lets her cry on my shoulder, gives suggestions, genuinely wants her to feel better, and has cried on her behalf more than thrice.
And yet Vince is the only one who's there for her? gimme a break.
Act 2, scene 2, in which Amanda becomes a secretive bitch and keeps things from me that she shouldn't
Trent called me yesterday asking for Amanda's phone #. I thought this was just Trent being an asshole ex boyfriend, because he's been doing shit like this for awhile. Anyway, I called Amanda later and told her that Trent called me for her #, and she didn't really say anything. She NEVER mentioned having plans with Trent. Later on MSN, I was talking to the lovely Trent, and I asked him why he wanted her phone number, and he told me that they had planned on doing something that day, and that he needed to call her to work out the details.
I'm not even mad that Amanda and Trent were planning on doing something. Though I WOULD be hurt if they became boyfriend-girlfriend, I don't have or want the power to dictate who they hang out with. I'm just so disappointed that Amanda purposely didn't mention that they had plans! She went behind Renee's back with Vince, but I never thought she'd do this to ME. The fact that I called her and said "I wonder why he wanted your phone number" and she never mentioned WHY is SO hard to face.
And I KNOW that these things are probably because of her depression, but that doesn't make it any easier. She doesn't tell her therapist the whole story either, so that makes it even worse.
the end.