Why Can't We Be Friends?

“I don’t know what looks have to do with us being friends, Eddie.”

“Oh,” he smiled, “Don’t try to trick me into believing you want to be friends with me.”

He backed away and flipped me the bird and I stood there aghast, looking like an idiot. Grinning and swaying he swung himself around, turning from me and walking into the darkness.

And like an even bigger idiot, I actually followed him.

“Why don’t you think I want to be friends with you?” I called after him.

I heard him sigh, “Jesus fuck are you really still following me? Can’t you get the message?”

Picking up my pace I managed to get around to the front of him, holding out my hand and just brushing against his chest to stop him but that was enough to make him sneer at me and ball up his fists, jerking himself away from me.

“Don’t touch me!”

“I’m sorry,” I said instinctively, “Look I’m sorry. I’m just really confused right now and I don’t know what your deal is. I didn’t do anything wrong to you. Hell, I even stepped up to catch you during that stupid trust fall thing. Why in the hell do you think I wouldn’t want to be friends with you?”

“Why in the hell would I think that you would?” he snarled, throwing his hands up in the air and shaking his head, “I didn’t fucking ask you to catch me. When you decided to do that did you even stop to think how humiliating that would be for me? Being caught by a fucking girl? It made me look so fucking weak!”

My mouth fell open and my eyes widened. Jesus. I couldn’t begin to see how he got to that conclusion.

There were plenty of guys and plenty of girls in the group and he wasn’t the only guy caught by a girl not to mention all of the fucking sexism at play in his assumption there. And I wanted to tell him all of that, to scream at him and maybe smack him around a bit to show him that just because I had breasts they didn’t automatically make me weak, but I couldn’t get a word in edgewise against the onslaught of hate that was spilling out of his lips.

“But I bet you did it on purpose, knowing that it would play out like that. All those people snickering at me, it’s just like high school all over again.

“Fuck I can’t believe I let myself think for one fucking second that it would be different here. But no it’s just jocks trying to break my balls and bitches trying to show me that they’re better than me and no one, not one single soul in that group, who is even remotely like me.”

“I’m like you,” I implored at him, but I’d never been on this side of his hate and I really didn’t know if that was the truth and even if it was, Eddie would never buy it.

“No you’re not,” he said low, his voice brimming with hatred, “You’re nothing like me. You might like the things that I like, if that stunt you pulled in the library is any indication, and you might want to think that you’re like me, but you’re not. You can’t be. You’re not like me. I’m certainly not like you.”

“How the fuck do you even know?” I asked, “You never gave me the chance to fucking show you!”

“I don’t need to. I don’t need to and I don’t need you. I can tell just from looking at you that you’re nothing like me.”

I was frustrated and angry and now I was the one screaming.

“Why? Because I’m a woman? Because I’ve got boobs and a pussy instead of a cock and balls? You think that my gender really changes me that much? You think that just because I am a woman I can’t empathize with you? I can’t like the things you like? I can’t like them the way that you do?”

I stepped forward, jabbing my finger in his chest as I spoke.

“You don’t know me. You don’t know anything about me. But I know you Eddie. I have you fucking pegged with all your anger and all your hate and even with that I still want to be friends with you so what’s your fucking deal?”

He sneered, curling up his lips and looking at me with disdain.

“It’ll never work. I’d never be friends with a slut like you.”

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