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Casey Novak - 1 Story

 

SWAK

 

I'm not one to get involved in arguments that I don't belong in. However, one day I was kind of out of it. These two girls I know but I'm not close to were in a fight and it wasn't a cat fight. They were beating the hell out of each other. I knew they were friends and I hate to see friends fight.

I walked up to them. I didn't know what I was thinking. I really just wanted to walk by but unfortunately that's not what I did. I stepped between them "Hey you guys shouldn't be fighting. What you're fighting over it's not worth it. You're friends, good friends and around here it's hard to keep friends. Now I want you both to kiss and make up." I was more surprised than they were that I had said that last part. So as they say actions speak better than words, I kissed them both on the lips, grabbed their hands and shook them. "There, friends now?"

I walked off. They just stood there looking stunned. I couldn't believe what I had just done. I hoped it worked but I figured it just looked like I was being a jerk and they would just be pissed at me. But if they weren't mad at each other I guess it would be worth it.

The next day I was walking through the park thinking about how stupid I'd been. One of the girls I kissed the other day had a boyfriend, a very large guy, and as I was walking in the park, he must have heard what I did because he came up behind me and decked me. I was on the ground before I knew what happened.

"You kissed my girlfriend."
"I was trying to prove a point," I said.
"What, that you're a dumb?" After he said that I realized how stupid I had been acting. "Look man I don't know what got into me the other day and I'm sorry.""Well I guess I'll just have to knock some sense into you." With that he hit me again. I just blocked his punches but I wouldn't hit him because I saw that he was right. I was a dumbass. Hell, I'd do the same thing if I was him. Then, when I was at my lowest there on the ground, his girlfriend came up to us. Oh god, I thought.

"Hey you guys shouldn't be fight" she said. Oh shit, I thought.
"Why not?" The boyfriend asked.
"You should be friends." With that she kissed him on the cheek and then came over to me, looked me in the eyes and I knew what she was doing, she was getting even with me. She pulled my face down and put her lips full on mine and gave me a long kiss slipping me the
tongue. I guess if I were her I would do something like that too. She left, her boyfriend just stood there with his mouth open. It took both of us a while to figure out what happened. We stood there for a minute till she was out of sight. Unfortunately her boyfriend decided since he couldn't harm his girlfriend he'd have to take it out on me. I still couldn't move so it made it easier to knock me out.

I got a call from the hospital a couple of days later from that girl. "Thank you, me and Kelly are friends again."
"Glad I could help" I told her.