I live in a small shitty apartment. It gets so cold in the winter that I avoid showering for fear my testicles might freeze to the side of my leg. I've called my landlord like, a billion times, and he still hasn't come to fix the god damn heater. I hate feeling cold.
When I was younger my grandmother would always bother me because I wasn't wearing a heavy enough jacket. It could be the middle of summer and she'd ask me, "Aren't you freezing without a jacket?" I'd say, "Mom-mom, your old, shut up." Just joking. I would always say no, and wonder to myself why exactly was it that no matter the season, no matter how many layers I had on, whether I had gloves on, or a hat, it didn't matter. She would still ask me whether or not I was cold. After living in the apartment from hell (frozen over), I've come to understand why it was that she would always ask me if I was warm enough, its because the cold sucks. It seems like after all of her years on this earth, after experiencing the whole spectrum of human emotion, and even living to talk about, she has concluded that nothing is worse than feeling cold. Maybe old people aren't that stupid after all.
Why is it that when I walk down the street to go to class, or the library, or to go buy some pot, I pass so many beautiful girls. It doesn't make any sense. God invented college so that he could put a bunch of hormonally driven young adults in one area and see all the stupid shit they can do. I think he most likely suprised himself. Sometimes I'll picture myself going up to one of those girls and saying, "Hi, my names Ethan. I think I have a decent heart, and thats more than I can say for most the people in this city. We should get to know each other" But that would be crazy. Sometimes I'll imagine one of those pretty girls stopping to tell me she's in my Lectures in Literature class and would really like to get to know me. She likes my comments from class. Then I see us together drinking coffee and doing all the cliche 'getting to know each other' bullshit, eventually she will start hanging out with my friends. They actually like her, can you believe that. She's so sensitive and intelligent, and beautiful, and beautiful. I can smell her perfume on my jacket after she hugs me. Alright, I'll cut the crap. Fuck that. This is how it will probably happen...
I'm at a party and as I'm walking to the keg to get myself another beer, I see the most stunning Indian girl I've ever seen. The cup reflecting off her eyes makes it look like there is a fire burning behind them. We catch each others glances and walk towards one another like magnets, this is beyond our control. I say, "Your beautiful." She says, "No, you are." We begin to kiss and before I know it I am following her up the stairs in a complete strangers house. She says she has to pee, but the line to the bathroom is too long. She walks to the closest door, which happens to be a storage room, asks me to wait and minute, and pees right on the fucking floor.
We get to the room. She's so fine, so sexy, a real women. I try to forget the fact that she just pissed in some dude's closet because this girl is like nothing I've ever seen before. I've never been with an Indian girl. She asks if I have protection, I say no, I wasn't planning on this. She says that its okay because she's on birth control. She asks me if I'm clean, I say yes. Then I think to myself.... this girl just kissed me after no more than 4 words, asked me to come upstairs with her, she pissed in the closet, and now she wants to have unprotected sex. She doesn't even know my name, I don't think this is such a good idea. I know I'm clean, but this girl was probably as clean as that floor in the closet.
It could happen like that. Or it could happen like this....
My friend tells me that the girl from psych class that I sit next to everyday and smoke a cigarette before and after the class with wants to sleep with me. She just wants it. No strings attached. Well, instead of studying at her place together like we had planned, we end up drinking a bottle of wine, then going to a party down the hall hosted by the football team, and before I knew it we were in bed together naked. Problem was, my tools were not working. There was no cooperation happening between me and my tools. I was panicing, this normally doesn't happen, maybe shes not hot enough, maybe I'm just loosing my ability to get boners. Maybe it's because of that Aderoel i took to help me study. Fuck. After I can't get my junk to function, she asks me to leave. We don't sit next to each other next class. I wonder why. I blame it on the Aderoel.
This is how the story really goes....
New at college, freshman year. Sitting in a small seminar for first year students. I see a girl across the table from me, I feel like I know her already. Her eyes are so big. Her name is Maya. We talk after class because she was in Israel for a year, and my friend is there now and is doing the same program she did. I cannot stop thinking about her. I call her to hang out, and we become best friends. She will never kiss me. She finally does once, but just because I helped clean up her roommates vomit from carpet after we were all drinking heavily at the hooka bar. She kisses me again while dancing at a party a month later. I kiss her in my room after drinking too much together sometime during the winter. She didn't remember walking home that night. I tell her I love her, I think I really do. Its not the right time for her. She is the most perfect girl for me, and I know it. The year ends, and she decides to go back to israel, this time indefinatly. I haven't seen her since.
I still think about her as I sit in my fucking freezing apartment and think about why I'm still alone. I blame the cold. The cold sucks.
