Lately I've been thinking back about all the relationships I've ever been in. Sort of a trying to figure out what it is that's so wrong with me type of thing I guess. Now I know every girl before Jamie just wasn't "the one" but still, there must have been something there. I could have seen myself with any one of them seriously... that is except for one. Rachel.
It all started back in college, imagine that, the worst thing I do happening there. I was hanging out in front of my dorm with one of my best friends, Tim. We were drinking screwdrivers and getting very wasted. I remember one of us puking twice, once nothing but OJ and the second nothing but alcohol. Pretty sure it was Tim, but it is all kind of foggy. Everyone else we were hanging out with had already gone to bed, so it was just the two of us, drinking, tal.. er, slurring, and just trying to have a good time. Problem was, we were both way too drunk to be able to do anything but hang out there. Luckily... I guess... for us, a friend of ours, Rachel, showed up. She realized we were in no shape to find our ways to our rooms so she volunteered to help. First she took Tim up to his room. She wasn't gone long, but I didn't really mind cause it gave me time to just lay there staring up at the stars. They sure where bright on that particular night.
So now she's helping me up to my room. Now I'm completely drunk and really don't remember the details of the rest of that night, but I do remember her still in my room in the morning. It also seems like we might have taken a shower together, but who knows for sure. Well, except for her I guess.
So now we go to breakfast to meet our friends, I'm still not completely sober, and she's wearing my clothes. Wasn't hard for my friends to put one and one together. So we were a couple. And for the next week or so, she followed me everywhere, laying all sorts of affection upon me. Problem was, I really couldn't stand the girl. She annoyed the hell out of me!
So anyways, come one morning a group of us are sitting outside the dorm waiting for the cafeteria to open so we could get some breakfast. One person in the group decided we should go for a drive since we had time to kill. So we all jumped in his best friend's car and took off. It was him, John, driving, Rachel in the passenger seat, and me, a guy we all called Smeg (or something like that), and his best friend who the rest of us didn't really know who was also named Ryan. Problem was, and what I really wish I had known beforehand, John was not sober. So guess what... yup... we ended up wrecking. Moron drove the car straight into a lightpost. Almost killed us all. Most of us were okay, just a little shooken up, but poor Rachel ended up breaking her wrist. Could have been a LOT worse, but we were very lucky.
So now Rachel is crying in pain and John is freaking out about wrecking his best friend's car and trying to figure out what to tell the cops when they show up. I'm trying to make sure evryone's okay but it's hard to figure out because everyone's very shaken. Finally an ambulance arrives for Rachel and she's calling out to me. She really doesn't want to be alone and I really don't want her to be, but I also don't want to be the one to go with her. So as she's crying out for "Ryan", I look over at Smeg's friend and say, "Dude, I think she wants you to go with her."
So Ryan jumps in the ambulance with her and they're off.
I still feel very bad about abandoning her. I never wanted her in my life, but still, when she needed me I let her down. I did consider her a friend if nothing more, but what kind of friend does something like that? Me.
On the bright side, her and the other Ryan did hit it off and last I talked to them they were engaged. Not sure if they made it or not since I lost contact with them when I left school, but I do still hope the best for them, together or not, wherever they are. Especially my friend, Rachel.
Now I'm not sure why I wrote this. I don't feel it's a confession, but maybe it's an excuse that everyone, even myself, has an evil side. It might not always be drawn out, maybe just a spur of the moment impulse, but to do someone wrong is.. well... wrong. Yet everyone seems to do it.
To Rachel, and anyone else I've ever wronged out there, I'm sorry.