. . . Cause What You Did Was LOW . . .

LOL this is a post I started a while ago, and has been sitting in my Posts thing ever since! I forgot that it was only a draft ... so, since in the future I think it would be nice for y'all to understand what I'm talking about, I figured I'd put this post in to explain me and Lindsay's steadily arising problem ...

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OMG I haven't blogged in FOREVER! I just realized that while I was working on a new chapter for my other blog-book.



SO MUCH has happened! For one thing, I guess I should start out by explaining the title of this entry . . .



Some of you might recognize it as lyrics to Kelly Clarkson's song "Low". About a week ago (lol now about a month ago), that was my theme song, and here is why . . .



I recieved an email from Lindsay, which included a "story". She asked me for advice for this girl who had apparently called her the night before. Now, one thing that you must know about Linds is that whenever she is talking about a friend at school who is having problems, she says their name. Instead, she chose to use nicknames, saying this . . . (btw these are her EXACT words . . . see if the story sounds familiar in any way . . .)



"fake names: and the story kind of "stretched"
Betty was walking along the street when like this dude she didn't know came up beside her. at first she was scared he was like a stalker or something, but then got to know him, and he was cool. they talk like all the time and see each other too. but then this other girl, cathy saw him and just wanted a friend. but they grew closer too. it turns out cathy and betty are pretty good friends, right.. cathy would be okay if betty dated the dude, but doesn't know how betty would feel if cathy dated him. betty did see him first. cathy tries to tell the dude to take betty, but he doesn't know.
what does cathy do. ignore the dude. until he is bac with betty?"



Sounding familiar yet? Re-read it if you have to . . .



Mmkay, here's the solution to this puzzle . . . (you can tell that I've been playing Nancy Drew and Professor Layton lately, can't you? :D)



Alright, let's start with the fact that the story is "stretched". Stretched = it strays a bit from the actual happenings, right?



Code names = uh, why would she use code names if I already know the names of all of her friends?!?!



Let's break this down, shall we?



"Betty was walking along the street when like this dude she didn't know came up beside her." = So, Betty is going on with her life, and all of a sudden this guy pops up out of ABSOLUTELY NO WHERE and tells her something improtant . . . like say, how he feels about her???



"at first she was scared that he was like a stalker or something," = Hmm, that's a pretty funny coincidence . . . I used to refer to Jeremy as "My Stalker" to her when we would talk about him . . . "but then got to know him, and he was cool." = So, Betty began to like him back, hmm??



"they talk all the time and see each other too." = Hey, that's funny, cause you know who I talk to all the time, and now comes to Sunday Night Bible Study with me?? Hmm . . .



"but then this other girl, cathy saw him and just wanted a friend. but they grew closer too." = That's supah wierd that she sends me this email RIGHT after she and Jeremy stay up until 3 in the morning texting . . . wow, they must have had a LOT to talk about . . . hmm . . . so what happens when you begin to talk more and more with someone??



"it turns out cathy and betty are pretty good friends, right.. cathy would be okay if betty dated the dude, but doesn't know how betty would feel if cathy dated him." = So, Betty and Cathy are like BFF . . . and Cathy KNOWS that Betty likes Je- I mean, "the dude", but now Cathy's pretty much putting her feelings for "the dude" before her BFFness with Betty . . . interesting how that happens . . . and I don't know about you, but I think that if I was Betty, I'd be pretty mad if Cathy dated "the dude" who she KNOWS Betty now likes . . .



"betty did see him first." = Uh, le-DUH Cathy . . . Betty saw him first like, I dunno . . . A YEAR AGO!



"cathy tries to tell the dude to take betty, but he doesn't know.
what does cathy do. ignore the dude. until he is bac with betty?" = Ya know, I think that it's hysterical that Cathy has all these problems with feelings on the same night that The Dude tells Betty that he thinks Cathy is purdy . . .



WHAT LINDS IS TRYING TO SAY IS . . . .



So Jeremy decides that he likes you (me), and now you guys hang out, IM, email, the whole nine yards. And NOW, he works at the same place that you want to work, AND on top of that, he is now coming to Sunday Night Bible Study with you. So then along comes me, thinking "oo I'll make a new friend!", but then I take something that Jeremy says and run totally astray with it, thinking that he likes me, and that we're going to date. But since your my friend, I suppose that I should make up a story and put code names instead of just coming out and telling you the truth, cause that's the way I roll. And oh, by the way, no matter what, I still want to date the guy that you JUST told me recently that you're starting to have feelings for . . . that's, like, OKAY with you, right?



AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!



Mmkay, so that all became clear to me the night after she sent the email. We were having an IM convo, and all of a sudden, she said something (can't remember what exactly it was), and it HIT ME like a bag of bricks. I re-read the email, and, thinking that Jeremy and my best friend were two-timing me behind my back, got VERY VERY VERY upset.

My mom and Renee sat down and talked with me. I had known all along that Linds would go after Jeremy; that's the way that she is. When she likes a guy, and he is either A: dating one of her friends, or B: interested in one of her friends insetad of her, she makes her friend choose between either her or him. And then by the time her friend turns the guy off or down or whatever, she's already found someone else to be infactuated with.

I couldn't believe it. I really couldn't. And the truth was that I wasn't so sure if Jeremy wasn't the one behind it all, and that broke my heart two-fold.

So as soon as we got home (we went to get ice cream!! ;), I called Jeremy, and we sorted it all out.

It turns out that they had been joking around, and somewhere in between the time when they got home from church that night to the time that they were joking around, Lindsay had decided that she liked Jeremy, and that she was going to date him no matter what I said. And when they were joking around, they were naming random people to be matched up with other random people, and Lindsay suggested them. Jeremy thought that she was kidding, and decided to laugh along with everything that she said. Well, while he thought that they were joking, Linds was taking it all very seriously, thinking that he liked her back. THAT'S when she sent me the email asking me for advice on how to get her and Jeremy together.



Here's my response to her email:



"AUGH I'm no good at advice ... umm ... I guess it all comes down to who he likes more ... like, who he's closer to. I think that it would be wrong of Cathy to date the dude without asking Betty about it first ... that could ruin their friendship. I like to resolve things without a fight, or a ruined relationship, you know what I'm saying? Lol luvv ya!"

So then I waited for her response. Obviously, with her state of mind at the moment, she was NOT happy when I said what I said back to her, and here is her response:

"whatever. it doesn't matter anymore.
really. it doesn't.
at all
none whatsoever
so forget it
forget i ever said anything
because none of it mattered
.. ever"

So, as you can probably guess, I'm like "What the heckskey??" over here!

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So the next morning was when we IMed, she was really cold towards me. I asked her how things worked out, and she was all like "didn't you read my reply? it doesnt matter anymore. FOR. GET. IT."
I was crushed.
But I was even more crushed when I figured out the whole shebang. I called Jeremy and we sorted it out ... although we promised not to tell Lindsay about it, and that's the way it was meant to be. ...

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Have you ever been low?
Have you ever had a friend that let you down so?
When the truth came out
Were you the last to know?
Were you left out in the cold?
Cuz what you did was low. . . .

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God, I hope that everything will be alright between me, Linds, and Jeremy . . .

PEACE OUT Y'ALL!
~ Megan
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