- Never works, does it?
- What gives.
- It does!
- No, it doesn't. Right now I'm wasting my time so I better leave. You always make me waste my time.
- No I don't! Well, I intend not to.
- Well, you're doing it wrong. Fix it. Or do us a favour and take her to your dorm instead of mine, would be better for all three of us.
- That was a big mistake, I know.
- I'm just giving you an unfriendly reminder.
Silence and heavy air currents. As always.
- You do care, I can see it in your eyes.
- My eyes only reflect their colours.
- Before you there was this girl. I never knew how but she just left, all swift and sudden. Came by two years later, she had someone else and he was tall and looked pretty fine. We went to the movies with a huge group of friends, then one left, then another... we were only five by the coffee time. The evening ended at my place, lots of booze and lots of everything. She was drinking oceans of vodka, wanting to forget something that was never remembered.
- Problems within relationships are common. You've got a moot point.
- Perhaps I do, perhaps I don't.
- Does it have a happy ending?
- I'm not sure. She began whispering in my ear how funny this all was. The months she waited in her tower for a knight in shiny armor to come save her. The seconds when she drifted to a far off corner of her head and dreamt of the guy having someone else to forget her and then all the romance and dropping knickers. The days when she wondered if someone else dreamt the same and when she wondered how many of us were mismatched. And the days when she hated herself for just running away.
- Did you do something?
- Took her to bed, I wasn't the knight in hoodie she was looking for. But in some way she might be right, I'm hell sure I'll be in that position someday.
- As far as I know, I'm not knighting yet. And as far as I know, not every story deserves medieval crap and happy endings.
- That's a fine answer my lady, for now.
- For now and forever. Perhaps each of us has only one knight card, you already got yours. You have one left to use. And I beg you, please don't use it in my room. I have seen your face more times than I would like.
- So cold.
- Thank you.
- Could we still be friends?
I looked at my wristwatch, moved a strand of hair backwards and nodded.
- I never wanted to be friends with you in the first place.
- But could we try? Everyone deserves a second chance, Aka.
- Not if you call me like that. Is there something I could gain from that?
- I'm not sure, I'm not on bargaining mode today. Friendship is good, everyone deserves the pursuit of a happy ending unlike the girl from my story.
- I'll ask anyways, could it be worse for her?
- He was queer as a three dollar bill and she knew.