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your dark side
Human Companionship
Sometimes a little human companionship can put a little bandaid on life's many depressing aspects.
A good friend of mine, Pedro, was having troubles with his girlfriend. (I'm having troubles with her too, she won't give me my Sailor Moon videos back) To be short, he wants to break up with her, and soon, but he can't, because he doesn't want to hurt her. I know how this feels, because I went through the same thing with Pedro. (Yes, he's one of my many exes.) So he and I sat in his room, he telling me everything on his mind, I listening intently. At one point I asked him to give me a backrub, and he complied, and we sat and listened to the anime music he had.
Until his girlfriend sent an instant message telling him she was on campus.
We both had a fit, considering her aunt had told ud she was never allowed back on campus due to a previous escapade that involved her telling her aunt she was at my room, while visiting Pedro instead. She begged and pleaded for him to visit her, while he tried to avoid the subject and eventually just signed off Instant Messenger and collapsed on his bed. He then motioned for me to sit with him for a time, and then asked me to hug him....so I did. We sat there for a time, talking, and then I went over to the computer to ask his girlfriend for my movies back. She told me once she gets her mangas (which are actually translations printed off the web) she'll give me my movies. I need them this weekend, I said, and proposed that we make a trade- my videos for her manga. She then brought up the subject of a lost videotape I had no clue where it was, and said if i didn't get her the tape (which was just sailor moon episodes she taped off of tv), I wouldn't get my tapes back. Those tapes are worth a lot to me, so I told her that I'd try to get her the entire Sailor Moon S series on tape if she'd just give me my damn videos.
Then the phone rang.
It was her.
I don't know exactly what they talked about, but Pedro mentioned something about her sneaking out of her aunt's office to come to see him. He told her he was really sick and didn't feel like company. In my Instant Messenger window with her, she said "whatever" to me getting her the videos and signed off. Then, after Pedro got off the phone, he retreated to his bed again, and we lay next to each other, just sitting there. He asked me to hold him, and I did. I knew all many of us ever need sometimes is someone to hold us. We sat there for hours, in each others arms, just talking and listening and being there for each other (mainly me being there for him more than him being there for him). And this is one of the times I enjoyed human companionship. Just him and I, and our fears and dreams. Nothing more, nothing less.
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