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OMG Drama!

A week before the barzam I mentioned that Trivia Boy has a huge crush on one of my friends, the rebel. While a few of us in the crew know that he's smitten for her, no one really knows if Rebel herself has any ideas about this crush. She's been wrapped up in an on again off again thing with another guy for the last 6 months or so and seems to be very preoccupied at the moment with that. Despite this, Trivia Boy hasn't been deterred from being interested in Rebel, but he hasn't exactly gotten up the nerve to just go ahead and ask her out.

I was totally taken aback today when Trivia Boy rolled into my office at work to tell me that he had flowers delivered to Rebel today as a way of letting her know that he's interested, even though he only wrote his name on the card instead of writing something that would for sure get across the message that he's into her. He's leaving town tonight so he timed it so that he wouldn't have to see her at Trivia tonight (which ended up getting canceled anyways- but that's besides the point) just in case the response isn't what he's hoping for. He told me all the details of the flower delivery, he went to the florist and picked out the arrangement himself, something with sunflowers as the main thing, he then made arrangements to have the flowers delivered to the main office of Rebel's apartment complex this afternoon while she was still at work (she has a temp job so he didn't want to try and have them taken to her office) and then called her apartment office to make sure that the receptionist would call Rebel and let her know that she had a delivery to come pick up when she got home. For some reason, the whole time he was telling me this story I was feeling jealous and I don't know why. I'm assuming it's cause I never seem to date guys who are thoughtful enough to randomly give flowers, much less get flowers from someone who I'm not dating and I was just having one of those days where I'd like to feel special, but I dunno.

I brushed all this off went back to the massive post conviction appeal that I'm currently working on (for a murder case no less!) and happily went about the rest of my day. Despite this, for some reason I found my mind drifting as I sat in horrible traffic on my commute home thinking about what it would be like if I got home and found a message from my apartment office and went down there to find flowers waiting for me. WTF? I've been saying all summer that there's nothing going on between us, plus it's clear that he's into someone else. Even though there was that one night after the barzam, it didn't go anywhere, it didn't mean anything, and it didn't change how I generally feel about the situation (that we're friends and nothing more). And yet, here I am today all of the sudden feeling jealous and who knows what else. Oye. I think this might require a bottle of wine and a good cheesy movie, hopefully I'll wake up tomorrow with my head glued back on straight.

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).