Chapter Fourteen: OH YOU FANCY HUH?

its a strange release leting go of a parasite thats been sucking you dry. No im not talking about a tapeworm or a ringworm or leech or anything, im talking about a person. This particular person was supposedly my friend. Her name Barb, her specialty : DRAMA, with a degree in instigating it, she has a rare talent from starting bullshit out of thin air. Im a very compassionate person, a very caring very trusting person. I became friends with this person but somehow fell under the illusions thrown in my face. after a grand total of a year, ive been through more bullshit because of her than because of anyone else. She used to ditch me here and there but we'd eventually hang out sometime during the week so i overlooked it ...foolishly but thats me always giving the benefit of the doubt. Eventually barb had moved herself into my life, without an invitation i might add, but i didnt mind because im not an exclusive person i dont disclude anyone without reason. during the summertime after musical was over, she had stopped hanging out with me and started hanging out with heaven, someone who i didnt have a problem with. I was low on gas one day when barb called me at 11:00 on a saturday to come help out heaven because she didnt know how to change a tire. I hopped in my hoopty being a good samaritan , and by the time i got there she was sitting in the driveway with her spare on, and turned around and said in a rather obnoxious rude tone " what are you doing here". I looked at barb and she said yeah i forgot to call you and tell you she got it on herself. they then without another word left and there i am car on E and i have to go to work in two hours and they just left not a thanks anyway nothing. Later during the week on my day off i called up barb to see if she wanted to hang out. " well im hanging out with heaven today" she told me , to which i replied thats chill can we all three not hang out, " were with heavans grandma" barb said ( probably a lie but i have no proof) over the phone i heard heaven say " i dont want to hang out with that loser". Now lets examine this here because this was my first redflag. why would you continue to hang out with someone , without setting them straight after they ditched your bestfriend?, particularly a bestfriend that you let someone call a loser, although apparantly i wasnt too big a loser for her to call me when she didnt know how to change a tire, but i digress. weeks went by eventually their relationship kind of went the way of the birds and once again i was the guy to call. after a while of hanging with my gay friend chris, who went to middle college with barb before she transferred back to western ( to be in musical of course ), who was asking me how i could stand her, and informed me that she had talked crap about me behind my back. i dismissed it as maybe miscommunication but i still held on to my suspiscion. Later during the year barb got a boyfriend and was always busy with him never having time for anyone else. One night at 1am i get a call , i answer to a hysterical barb asking if i could come pick her up, ( this had not been the first time i had gotten a "can you come pick me up" call at such a late hour but it was the first time it had the hysterical crying with it. "im at my house my aunts are kicking me out" she blubbered through her sobs. I went a picked her up and brought her back to my house. I arranged for my friend blake to house her.  after which , i never saw her for a solid few months , in fact outside of our classes i barely saw her at all, neither did blake because all her time was spent at her boyfriends house. well eventually she moved back in with her aunts , after a ton of drama she started in the little bits of time she wasnt with her boyfriend. second semester had begun, and we all had english together, blake barb and myself. I had told barb last year how i wanted to do a show for my senior project. I sat down at our table and barb said "DUSTIN im doing a show for my senior prject and i want you and balke to help me with it" i said what? she said" no im serious im gonna choreograph and produce you can do all the tech and blake will get the makeup and costumes" i said okay because i knew it wouldnt interfere with my directing and i hadnt really started on the product portion yet so it was all good as i was concerned and i assumed she had begun seeing about booking the auditorium and setting up an audtion date , she hadnt. It took forever to get her to sit down and have a meeting with me abotu the song selection so i could write the script around it. we finally got them all and the script was written within two days. I asked to have another meeting to discuss auditioning and the fine points of everything else. She kept dodging. Wednesday we had a meeting set up for right after third period not long just about five to thirty minutes. we both had early release so it wouldnt get in the way of anything. I got to second period and she stopped me and said " i cant make the meeting today because my aunts say i have to go immediately home". her aunts were strict but she had used that line before when it turned out she had just something else she wanted to do more going on or simply didnt want to do it. later that sme day i was texting her explaining the importance of the next meeting and told her we had to get together soon, and that the time for procrastinating was up we had to get things moving. we had set up the meeting for either or the next day thursday , or friday the day after. I didnt go to school on thursday so i texted her at 12:30, she gets out at 1:30 , and asked her where she wanted to meet me at school at her house or somewhere else to be determined, because it didnt make a fuck to me. she never texted back i texted her two more times during the day . The next day in first period , she didnt say a word to me, didnt say a word when i passed her on the way to second. Then she walked into my third period which she isnt in and began talking to everyone but me . I stopped her. " so are we having our meeting today then because you never texted me back" i said " you werent at school yesterday".she replied to which i said " i texted you at 12:30 you never texted back and i texted you two times after that" " you never texted me" she said to which i said " bullshit" she covered and said i mean you didnt text at twelve thirty . I said " do you want to see time sent on the message because i have it" she changed her tone and said " ive been thinking and talking to our english teacher and maybe we should just do seperate shows because i dont like the way this is going nothing is getting done" to which i said " EXCUSE ME!! , nothings getting done, ive been busting my ass doing every bit of work , my ducks are in a row the only worl not getting done is yours which i was going to do anyway but you sdid no its my job dont get in the way of my work it will look bad on me, so ive been fighting your ass to get anything done" i waited for a reply but she was speechless so i said " do your own show good luck but im booking the auditorium as we speak, dont even think about using my script or any of the songs that go with it because they are mine". sat down and talked to someone for a while then left after which i shouted bitch very loudly after her. i explained to her via text after that it was the final straw and she could call someone else to pick her up at 1 am when she needs it because i wouldnt be there im timred of being used and how she only knows my name when she needs something for me i said to her she could take her bullshit and stuff it. ........its funny how since letting out those words and removing this parasite of a person from my life i feel so much better still resentful a little but so much better , i wonder why that is?