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Memories 4: The Set-Up I've been having a lot of problems falling asleep recently, mainly due to all of the...well, bad thoughts that keep bouncing around in my mind. Well, last night (as in the night before last night :P), I was just lying there thinking, unable to sleep when I tried to stop and think about something that I've done that's clearly been of help to someone...that made someone really happy. A couple things came to mind but were quickly dismissed as not right or not enough until suddenly, I went further back and started thinking of the things that I did for Carol...and hit upon this. One time, a while back, Carol was really into one of my friends. Who he is doesn't really matter at this point, suffice to say that she was REALLY into him and from what he had told me, he was pretty into her too. The problem was simply that her parents refused to let her go out with him for...well, whatever reason. But...her parents didn't mind her going out somewhere with me...so, guess what happened. At this point, I'm kind of...fuzzy on the details. I wonder now if I planned this little outing together with Carol or if I worked alone with it...but either way, it all worked. You know, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that we planned it together. I remember talking to her on the phone about it beforehand. She wanted to go to watch a movie with him, I'm fairly sure that it was some variety of scary movie, but was too scared that her parents would say no if she told them that she was going to watch a movie with some guy. I remember that we hit upon the idea of letting THEM know that it was just going to be me and her when it was really going to be her and him. I remember planning and addressing every single one of her concerns. Heh, I still remember when she was still thinking about not going through with it because "what would my parents say if they saw him driving me home?" (and there was no question of it happening...he was just that kind of guy). It just slipped into my head, so I told her, "all you need to tell them is that I had to leave for some reason at the end of the movie, say that I got a call from my mom saying that she needed me to come home and take care of something really fast so I got a friend to come and make sure that you got home okay." She was still pretty worried about the whole thing, but when the day came, it went off without a hitch. My friend drove the three of us to the theater (I don't think that he knew...) but when we got there, I pulled the whole "Oh fuck, I just forgot, I gotta run man." Yeah, I know, it's cheeeeesy as hell and ridiculously overused and I'm FAIRLY sure that he suspected...if he didn't he's a lot more dense than I thought XD I'm also fairly sure that he felt kind of strange, he was like, "Oh, you're not watching with us?" and all that and even offered to drive me home but surprise! Plan worked out so that the movie started right then so I made em just go. Carol...sigh, I think that she was actually expecting me to stay with them through the thing...she switched to korean so that he wouldn't understand a word and asked me if I was REALLY going to go...that she was getting really scared/worried about being alone with him (she had it pretty bad), but I told her that it would be alright, that she would be fine... So I started walking away...and then she called out, "����!" I'd walked quite a way across the parking lot by then but I turned around to look back at her. She was kind of small-looking...and she just looks at me for a little while and then she says, "����...��¥�� ������..." Oh god...that just hit me like a giant punch to the chest. The first part is like, the korean for a female to address her older brother? And the second part is like, like..."I'm really thankful." >.< What could I do? I nodded, smiled and told her, "I know." and I left. It made her happy...ridiculously so, I mean, I heard about almost nothing else for the rest of the night and the next day so I did know... It made me feel good...made me feel reeeallly good... Thinking about it more now, I'm starting to wonder if it was really a good thing...I mean, I basically helped her lie to her parents and all that...but it was for a good cause wasn't it? Maybe I'm just trying to justify a bad choice in retrospect...but it made her so happy...so I guess that it's a bit of a mixed memory...but it made her feel so good...it made her so happy... |