The Hottest Guy I Ever Went Out With

Maybe he was laughing 'cause I'd be all like "oh no where'd that knife come from!!" and he'd like say where the murderer in the mask would come from two seconds before it'd happen, even though he swore he never watched the movie before seeing it with me. Despite that, I really liked going out with him... then one day he just dumped me!

Like, I didn't believe it. He was so into me, and one day he's just like "Eileen, I think we should see other people."

I was so crushed. I'd, like, see him walking down the street with some slutty girl I knew was just using him, and he'd be all about her just the way he was with me. It was like some nightmare.

I remember this one girl he went out with; her name was Lili Czardas. She was totally the nastiest girl in my school. She messed around with everyone; I even heard she's the reason Mr. Porter got fired! I saw them together all the time... you know, it's funny; I never noticed him until that party. It's like when you get a new car which you think is so cool until you realize that like everybody has one. But I digress. (Oh no, did I just use that word? Weird.) I saw them being all over each other in the mall and on school grounds (even though he didn't go to our school, the perv) and it just made me so mad. Then I didn't see them together for a while, until like three months ago at Lili's funeral.

It was like everyone in the school had totally had a change of heart about this girl. She was so pretty and so popular, and the choir director said that she was the best solo altos the school'd ever had. Her favorite flowers were daisies, so they were in baskets and vases all over the quiet room, and there was a big poster of her taken at Homecoming last year hanging over her casket, and sitting three rows back and five chairs to the right was Tobias. He didn't look sad or angry or whatever, just totally blank. He was a lot less pale then I'd remembered, though.

After she was buried, he stayed for a long time by her grave, longer than Lili's own parents did. (I know this because I was visiting my grandpa a few yards away, 'cause I'm so not a stalker.) Then he kneeled down by the headstone and did something strange; he pulled something out of his pocket, dug a little in the dirt above her grave and buried it there, then he left.

After I was sure he was gone, I went over to find out what he'd put there. It was a little wooden cross.

I didn't see him for a couple of weeks, but I knew he was already seeing someone else. (My friend Stephanie told me so.) She was a girl he knew from college, and she was the older sister of a guy I have Chemistry with named Keith Johnson. I think her name was Abby. Anyway, they were going out for a while, then she went to the hospital for something starting with an "a," and it was the same thing Lili'd died of. Abstinence? That doesn't sound right. I know some guys who'd say they'd die of that, but I don't think you actually can. I think it was...oh, I don't remember what. The important thing is that Tobias had three girlfriends in two months and I was the only one to make it out without a scratch. Freaky, huh?

Anyway, I saw him again a few days after I heard about Abby.