Real Life: Level 16...
Ugh, just like any good video game, life just seems to become more and more difficult. Gah, where's the ultra-powerful upgrade when you really need it? Bah, anyway, it would seem as though Matt Taylor and I are no longer good friends, if friends at at all. Story ~ Mr. Boyle was taking attendance in Band and he asked "Where's Matt?". Matt raises his hand and Boyle says, "Get to where I can find you and stop flirting so much." Matt was sitting right behind a certain red-headed girl and her best friend. Anyone who knows me real well will know that I strongly believe that Matt SO has a thing for this red-head and her female friends, namely a Loser and a girl who hates being called "Amanda". ANYWAY, I start saying "Yeeeaaah...!" in a teasing manner and the like. Matt, when he sits himself down which happens to be behind and to my left of me, says to me, "John, shut up." *Snap, snap, snap* Oh no you didn't! Well, not really, but a I ask back, oh so innocently, "Why?" Matt then says, "You've been getting on my nerves." O_o Ummm...hello! "I'VE beeen getting on YOUR nerves?" says I. Matt responds with, "Yes. So let's just stay off each other's nerves for a while." I end the conversation with "Alright, sounds fine ta me." I'm not sure whether I won or lost that particular conflict. *Sigh* Whenever I hear his voice I just want to stuff a sock in his mouth, perferably mine immediately after PE. I told him, "Matt, one day people won't be able to tell whether you're lying or telling the truth." And he says, "I -know-" as if it were a good thing. I don't care if we remain friends or not, I know I'll still want to stuff a sock down his gullet and rid the world of one less liar. Well, at least temporarily. I'll do anything to shut him up, short of killing the...cretin. How does he get off on being such an ass, I ask you? Sure, I know I'm annoying at times, at at times I can't help it. I annoy people to make them squak, which is my way of feeling better about myself. But it's a Hyper-Bouncy-I'm-Only-Annoying-Because-I-Care kind of annoyance. Matthew, on the other hand, stretches the truth and belittles others to improve his ego. I play, he thrashes. I look people in the eye, he looks down on them. I follow, he leads. I'm proud, he's impossible. I admit that he is better than me in quite a few categories. But that makes ME better because I'm not! I want him to see the proverbial light or have someone turn his face towards it, at the same time leaving a large, red handprint on the side of his face. I want to tell him, "To tell you bluntly, Matthew, I don't give a damn." I really do not know why I'm getting so worked up about this. If he's no longer my friend, he's out of my care, right? Or do I still care for him enough that I want to help him change his ways?