Another intentional hiatus broken, ... [BRACE YOURSELF. IT'S A LONG ONE.]

... Another lifestyle change tacked onto my persona. So much has happened since I forgot that I had a blog... I decided that every day I'd take a new risk in talking to someone that I like... Or, whenever the chance comes that I can talk to him. I tried this with Brian; it went pretty well. Until...

My final risk: What color were Brian's eyes anyways?
Me, by myself (with the help of tracking him down from a friend, Nick) told Brian that I like him (because a part of me in there somewhere got the thought that he was starting to get the idea anyways). He rejected me, as suspected... But one small leap for someone else, a giant one for me, right?

ME: Things could be different between us after I tell you this...
BRIAN: What?
ME: That... (freakin' long pause) I like you.
BRIAN: (scoff) I don't care. (walks off)
ME: (runs after him) So is that a yes or a no?
BRIAN: What?
ME: ("idiot..." I think) Do you like me back or not?!
BRIAN: (stares for a sec and walks off)
Well, Brian didn't know. Not until I told him myself. Oh, yeah. Brian has green eyes.

Later that week, Nick told me that Brian was laughing because I had the guts to tell him (in a nutshell)... He told me that he punched Brian in the face for that, too. I'm just glad he got away with it. I'm pretty glad Brian eventually got what was coming to him, too. All my friends knew that Brian was a HEE-UGE jerk... Even Nick said so; and they're friends. They even told me too; I don't know why I didn't listen to them. Even when I strongly enforce the "don't date guys who are jerks to your friends" rule. Hmmm...

After that, I liked this kid, Evan, for a while... He was (was? is!) my opposite... He's really quiet, and I'm well, not. We hit it off pretty well; he might not like me back, but at least he said I was nice (and we are, no matter how indirectly, sort of friends)! Brian didn't really say anything...

And to top it all off, it's a well-known fact now: Cory is, in fact, going out with Rachelle (or is it Ashley?). Whoever it is, he doesn't like me at all, so I can back off now. Thank God that's over!... Right?...

Stay tuned.