Sick of Self-worship
(on-going)
By: RDV
Her friends weren’t the sort you trade secrets with. If you wanted something known, and you wanted it known to the world within two seconds, her friends would be the perfect choice. Gossip. They’d be there in one whistle. Tania enjoyed this, this common ground she and his friends flirted on, until the time arrived when they had nothing to gossip about anymore but themselves, praising each of their boyfriends like they were Mars or Apollo.
“Tania, when are you going to get a BF?”
“…”
“Hey, we’re talking to you.”
“Soon. I’m dating this guy.”
“Oooh. Who?”
“No one you know.”
“How come you never talk about him with us? You know a little sharing isn’t bad.”
“I know. I just want it to be private.”
“That isn’t fair. We talk about ours all the time.”
“Well, that’s your choice. You can NOT talk about them if you’d prefer it.”
It was her friends’ turn to be speechless. They sat in a semi circle, in the courtyard. Class had just been dismissed and the next bell wouldn’t be ringing until thirty minutes. Tania got up and excused herself to the washroom, where she’d be in keeping with her unattached, interior world. Enough of those girls for the day.
At home, she immediately commissioned her cousin, Paolo to do her a favor. Paolo had a cute friend named Alex. Tania wondered if she could ‘rent’ him for a fee or no fee to pretend as her boyfriend, just to give her friends something to cackle about. Sooner than she expected, the matter was efficiently carried out by Paolo. Alex was cordially cooperative, thankfully.
At dismissal time the following week, the girls were parked at Yellow Cab. They were chattering on like woodpeckers when a hot guy came swinging in the place. Almost in automatic response, one of Tania’s friends squealed in a whisper,
“Red alert. Cute guy on the loose.”
Tania looked up. Alex. Alex too, got wind of her. He didn’t so much as stride to her direction as swaggered. With one smile he sent Tania standing up to plant a kiss on his cheek. They coddled for a while more, moving like everything would wait for them to finish. Ha! This choreographed act was going better than she expected! The girls’ jaws hung open; the stud took their breath away just like that.
“For mockery’s sake, speak!” Tania laughed as she addressed her friends. One by one they gave out their names. After they were done, Tania took the pleasure of naming his swain.
“Alex, everyone.”
“Hi.” Alex said.
“Hi,” the girls replied weakly, incredulous.
They invited Alex to sit with them. Confident Tania smiled all throughout. The pathetic state she always played to her friends in their love-struck litany was now displaced from her head. Here, with Alex, the phantom of her happiness knew form, finally. This life owed her that love; she waited for it all along, too long. It was like stepping into another body, this business. It was almost real…
TBC
By: RDV
Her friends weren’t the sort you trade secrets with. If you wanted something known, and you wanted it known to the world within two seconds, her friends would be the perfect choice. Gossip. They’d be there in one whistle. Tania enjoyed this, this common ground she and his friends flirted on, until the time arrived when they had nothing to gossip about anymore but themselves, praising each of their boyfriends like they were Mars or Apollo.
“Tania, when are you going to get a BF?”
“…”
“Hey, we’re talking to you.”
“Soon. I’m dating this guy.”
“Oooh. Who?”
“No one you know.”
“How come you never talk about him with us? You know a little sharing isn’t bad.”
“I know. I just want it to be private.”
“That isn’t fair. We talk about ours all the time.”
“Well, that’s your choice. You can NOT talk about them if you’d prefer it.”
It was her friends’ turn to be speechless. They sat in a semi circle, in the courtyard. Class had just been dismissed and the next bell wouldn’t be ringing until thirty minutes. Tania got up and excused herself to the washroom, where she’d be in keeping with her unattached, interior world. Enough of those girls for the day.
At home, she immediately commissioned her cousin, Paolo to do her a favor. Paolo had a cute friend named Alex. Tania wondered if she could ‘rent’ him for a fee or no fee to pretend as her boyfriend, just to give her friends something to cackle about. Sooner than she expected, the matter was efficiently carried out by Paolo. Alex was cordially cooperative, thankfully.
At dismissal time the following week, the girls were parked at Yellow Cab. They were chattering on like woodpeckers when a hot guy came swinging in the place. Almost in automatic response, one of Tania’s friends squealed in a whisper,
“Red alert. Cute guy on the loose.”
Tania looked up. Alex. Alex too, got wind of her. He didn’t so much as stride to her direction as swaggered. With one smile he sent Tania standing up to plant a kiss on his cheek. They coddled for a while more, moving like everything would wait for them to finish. Ha! This choreographed act was going better than she expected! The girls’ jaws hung open; the stud took their breath away just like that.
“For mockery’s sake, speak!” Tania laughed as she addressed her friends. One by one they gave out their names. After they were done, Tania took the pleasure of naming his swain.
“Alex, everyone.”
“Hi.” Alex said.
“Hi,” the girls replied weakly, incredulous.
They invited Alex to sit with them. Confident Tania smiled all throughout. The pathetic state she always played to her friends in their love-struck litany was now displaced from her head. Here, with Alex, the phantom of her happiness knew form, finally. This life owed her that love; she waited for it all along, too long. It was like stepping into another body, this business. It was almost real…
TBC
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