10,000 Leagues Out Of Mine

Had this memory when I was driving to work today.

I remember in 5th grade, I had just been dumped by my girlfriend of 3 years so that she could date another boy in class. Sad, I know. We hadn't even kissed yet. Sad, I know. I just wanted to make sure she was 'the one'. No, I'm kidding. I have no idea why I never tried, oh well, I guess I preferred pulling hair and pushing to kissing and light petting, who wouldn't.

So it's like 2 months after the breakup and I'm on the rebound. I'm looking for another girl to not kiss. So I choose one, she was cute and nice, but a far cry from the hottest girl in class, who had just turned my toe-headed heart into mush.

Her name was Emily, her family helped raise seeing eye dogs. She was plain but polite. I really knew nothing much of her as a person, although we'd been in the same class the last 3 years. What can I say, cliques are a biatch. I asked her out...and she said no. We were in the library, which was nothing more then a broom closet filled with books. I had given her a note earlier in the day, and was following it up with some face time. "Smooooooooth Operatooooorrrrrrr".

She said no, she didn't want to be my girlfriend. She couldn't understand why I would even ask. Did she know she was the rebound girl? Did she know sloppy awkward kisses awaited her? Did she know that she should've just been happy to be nominated? She was Charlie in the Chocolate Factory and I was Willy Wonka, didn't she know what was going on? Apparently she did, because she said no.

Interesting tangent to that story, I still remember where I was when I was dumped by girl #1 in that story, I was on the phone with her friend in my parents kitchen, under the table. She kept saying I need to call Jennifer but wouldn't tell me why, so I called her and she broke up with me. I was trying to keep it calm after I hung up the phone, the family was going out to a movie. I was just leaving the kitchen when my brother came up to me and said "What's wrong, you look like you were just dumped". I burst into tears and ran into the bathroom and cried my eyes out. Then we all went and watched 'Rain Man'.