Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140914015107/@comment-397235-20140914031111

I've not spoken to her face to face in two years. You don't tell someone you want to spend the rest of your life with them then bring another guy on a date with you...especially not if it's some prick who thinks Justin Bieber is good music...Let's take an even strain here, Zilla.

Her sister at least finally told him off and moved out, but neither of us could ever convince her that was what needed to happen. It didn't help any her sister didn't like me. I think I exchanged maybe six words with her dad in the eighteen or so months we were together. Mostly he ignored me, or "forgot" she was going out with me. He did threaten to leave her on the highway one day. He came very close to dying that night...

We all told her she wasn't worthless and people loved her, she was a talented artist (her dad was always telling her that was a career which would never go anywhere and she needed to find a real job; sound familiar?), and she needed to stop expecting him to do something it just wasn't possible for him to do, but she just couldn't do it. It was easier for her to keep believing he had her best interests at heart when he was ignoring her or "forgetting" things like band concerts and other school activities. He even "forgot" to file her FAFSA (Federal Application for Student Aid; basically it's a thing the government does where "poor" kids get free money for college).

He was a thoroughly unlovely individual, but there was no way she'd ever figure that out, and even if she does, it'll only because someone else comes into her life to do all her thinking for her. I wasn't ever interested in doing that, no matter how much she wanted me to.

It occurs to me I dated Mei Misaki in high school. I'm not sure how I feel about that. -_-