Karma should be an untamed fucking bitchy mistress.
I'm going to preface this with a whole bunch of language and overactive emotions warnings.
No, I'm just going to leave it at that.
So I found out today that this guy, we'll call him Tom, is still super attractive. And rich. And his parents never got a divorce.
Now, sounds like a good thing, right? Yay for Tom! Fucking Tom. I despise him. I hope he dies.
Let me tell you a little about Tom.
When I was, oh, 14 years old, Tom approached me and said something along the lines of, "Hey, Anthony, right?" and conversation ensued. Back then, I was very very confused about my sexuality and who I was, but was tooa fraid to confide this in anyone. We talked for a few weeks, and then he confided in me that he was gay. I said, "Oh, okay. I.. think I'm bisexual."
I later found out that I was gay, but that's a tale for another day.
He became a big part of my life. We started to hang out more, and we became really close. I was so happy. II felt like I could be myself, and I'd finally found a love interest, all at the same time. There was nothing wrong with the world. Everything, you ask? Peachy.
Then, he asked me out. Mind you, he was 16, two years older than me, and I thought that was not only exciting but sort of sexually charging.
I said yes, of course. I already loved him. He said he loved me, too. Every day. I believed him.
I told my friends about us, I'd come out to them just a week or so before. He made me feel safe. I wasn't afraid of being judged, because I had him there to protect me, and, he loved me, right? I loved him too. Total trust.
And then my friend Dakota told me he was using me. He was just a player, and he'd done this to another guy just in the past year.
I'd known Dakota since kindergarden. She was my best friend.
I cussed her out and told her to never speak to me again, I loved him and he would never do that to me, she was just jealous I was actually happy for once.
And so she never spoke to me again.
And then Tom invited me over. He'd never done this before.
Was this really happening? Is he hinting towards what I thought he was?
I wasn't sure I wanted that yet. I wasn't ready. Yes, was interested. Yes, the thought had crossed my mind.
But was I afraid? Nervous? Not sure what it exactly entailed? Also yes.
Bottom line, did I want to?
No.
I went to his house, and he was all charm. His father was out on business. His mother was at their aunts. His sister was in college.
He asked if I wanted to go up to his room.
I loved him. I really did.
I asked if we could watch a movie instead.
He said no, he wanted to go to his room.
I said I wasn't feeling well.
He insisted.
I gave in.
And so it happened. At the time, yes, it was enjoyable enough. Afterwards I cried and tried to talk to him in school the following week.
I asked why he hadn't called and he said he didn't feel like it.
He'd always called, and always felt like it, what was up?
I asked if we could talk about it, he said "I already talked about it." and then the bell rang, and we went to class, and in that very first period, I found out that he had spread around school that I'd acted as his virgin slut and wasn't any good at it, anyways.
I asked to go to the nurses, feigning nausea, and went home, and cried for a long time.
I couldn't call Dakota. Not after what I'd said to her.
I couldn't call Tom. He didn't love me anymore, and never had to begin with.
I didn't have any other friends close enough to confide in, in reality, everybody I was on friendly terms with at Braddock was more of an acquaintance.
And so I tried to kill myself, failed, and landed myself in the mental hospital at 14 years old. I came back, and 3 months later, started smoking and burning my arm with the cigarettes. My mother found them, and sent me back to the mental hospital. This time, I got beat up because I was a "faggot", and was isntead shipped to a 2-month-stay group home. Summer time, I just continued smoking. I didn't burn anymore. I went to school again, and after confiding in my therapist that I was still very, very depressed and without friends at Braddock, and had been having thoughts of suicide, she called my mother and she said the insurance company would no longer support my stay at the hospitals, so we had to pay for 3 days out of pocket before they kicked me out. I then switched schools, and have been doing much better for myself since.
This all began with Tom.
And he's still fucking attractive, and probably doing the same to other guys.
and he's still rich.
And he's still got a whole damn family.
And I hope he gets run over by a truck carying barrels of oil, and it crashes intoa nother car, and then it explodes, and he suffers 3rd degree burns untill he dies.