The goal of our presentation was to do a drama scene in which we were to answer "what happens next?"...this scene was based upon a list of books and it was designed for groups of two to three people...since my group was composed of five, there was to be one group of three and one group of two...on the day we were assigned this project, only one person was not there...at the time, I didn't know that it was my goddess but we all decided that whoever it was, I would be partnered with that person...let me paint a picture for you...imagine a young man, sitting at his desk waiting to find out who his partner was for an important class project...a project that was worth half of our final grade...now, I was not nor am I now, a comfortable drama actor and so I was hoping that at least whoever it was, they would be better then I...lets start with a slow pan down, focus in on the face of your Hero, and slowly pulling back, showing the entire class and everyone there...cut to a hallway where a pair of high heel shoes are clicking their way down it....move back to the class and you can start to see the anticipation on my face...anticipation or anxiety?...either or, a slow sweat begins to build, a single drop of sweat trickle down the side of my face...back to the high heel shoes, the camera begins to pan up, first you see a pair of smooth legs, followed by a sexy short skirt, a red jacket....back to my face where I'm now looking towards the door, my hands shaking slightly and I gulp in the hopes of clearing my throat...knock, knock, knock...the door opens, a blinding beam of light bursts through the door...sweet music from the heavens above floods the room causing everything, including our own heart beats, to slow down...out of nowhere, a white dove flies across my field of vision, and when I look at the person at the door, a quick shot of my face shows a face of pure astonishment and joy...who can this be?...who could command such a presence that even Father Time himself would stop and say "Damn!"...you got it, my goddess...oh blessed, thy name is Kao...end scene...
I forget what book we chose, but I do remember the scene we mapped out...we pretended to be a married couple who was experiencing hard times...the book was about the tribulations of an Irish family trying to survive and make a living out in the open plains of Oaklahoma...yes, and two chinese people were about to play an Irish family...yes, sounds ridiculous, but seeing as we were the last group formed, our choices were quite limited...nonetheless, we embraced this idea, and I felt that it would be important if we started working on it immediately, so as to do well...We would stay after school and go over our little scene, trying to make it more believable and still trying to stay true to the storyline and subtext found in the book...because I was in some of her other classes, I finally had an avenue to start conversing with her randomly without looking like some kind of stalker...it was awesome...I would walk up to her in our Science & Society class, sit down next to her and start talking about the project, and she would talk back...do you know whats it like to actually talk to your dream?...sure, we spoke only in terms of school and there was no social or intimate conversations had, but I took this is a sign...baby steps towards the greater goal; the goal being the eventual earning of respect of trust from her, leading to me asking her out...oh yeah, I had played it out a million times in my mind and I thought it would work out...If you know me now, I'm sure you can guess how it turned out...after two months of painstaking rehearsals and constant rewrites to the script, we were about as ready as can be for our big day...in one of my greater moments, I was able to work in a hug and a peck on the cheek into the script...yes, it sounds a little pathetic, but dude, you have no idea how excited I was...too bad we couldn't practice the peck a little more often, I'm a believer in practice makes perfect, but I think Michelle felt it was good enough...we decided that our presentation would be set in the home of the family, shortly after it ends, discussing the lost of a loved one and the increasin burdens of financial debt and back crops...not to be narcissistic, but I think I was spectacular...sure, I forgot a few lines here and there, but I was able to ad-lib a few interesting variations...actually, I sucked ass and I think one of my ad-lib moments including the words "dude" in it...not exactly historically accurate but I felt that it kep the pace of the show going...maybe I'm slightly biased, but I think Michelle was sensational...looking all sexy in a homely, Anne of Green Gable, kind of way...don't you find it weird that sometimes the more conservative and covered up a beautiful woman is, the sexier and hotter they appear?...
After the presentation was done, it was a few weeks till the Holiday break, and so I thought that this would be a great time to spring my trap!...ok, that sounds a little harsh, what I meant to say is that this would have been a perfect time for me to lay the ground work for a wonderful relationship... better?...the only problem is, no one bothered to tell her of my ideas for romance...I had the whole thing figured out...I would non-chalently approach her, say thanks for working together on the presentation, and ask her what her holiday plans were...after she would tell me what she had planned, which by the way I already found (I had asked a few of her friends in a discreet manner), I would something like "well, perhaps you would like to get a cup of coffee or catch a movie some time?"...good plan, huh?...I thought so...the day after I came up with this pearl of a plan, I walked into the cafeteria in hopes of finding the future Mrs Wu...she wasn't there, but her friend Young was and so decided to ask her where she was...on a side note, like I said earlier, beautiful, intelligent women hang out with beautiful, intelligent women, and Young was no exception...to this day, I don't remember many things of High School, but I do remember names and faces, and a name and face and body like Young's was a hard thing to forget...unfortunately, she wasn't as nice as my goddess was and when I asked her where I could find Michelle, she told me in a rather brisk and cold way that she had gone away on an early vacation with her boyfriend and wouldn't be back till the New Year...
I was devastated...she had a boyfriend...you may be wondering how in my research, I could have missed this huge and blaring obstacle in my future hopes of marrying this women and all I can say is, oops...I never asked that question, although I probably knew she had a boyfriend...I guess I was just naive and dreaming that someone like her would want to be with me while in a relationship...I guess too many movies had warped my fragile little mind...I took this blow as a hero's test and decided that forewarned is forearmed...I set out to find out as much as I could about my enemy, because as Sun Tzu always said "if your enemy is sercure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is tempermental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, seperate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected." I needed to find a way to put a divide between him and my goddess, while at the same time appear innocent of this...I was not going to give him any rest; if he wanted to be with my future wife, then damnit, he better work for it every single day...
Let the games begin!
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