Reminiscence

These few weeks i kept listening to songs that accompany me through my secondary school days, reminded me alot about the past, dunno if it is good anot, but felt abit emo recalling the past. Then i remembered a story, it teaches me that in life, it is not always black or white, there is also the grey area. This is roughly how the story goes...

Long ago, there is this guy, Lionel, he was in high school. He did not have alot of friends in school as he was rather popular with the girls. He was very close to the school belle, Helen. Maybe that was why, the guys dun like him that much. Lionel then met George, who was also rather unpopular in school as he was rather arrogant. Lionel sensing that George is rather like him, both do not have much friends, decide to be George's good friend, having lunchs together, hanging out after class. Lionel did alot of things for George, accompanying him to watch movies that he had no interest in, planning a huge birthday celebration for him, inviting the girls who George were not so close to, including Helen, gathering money to get him an expensive gift, and withstanding George's insults on him.

Lionel has always like Helen, but as Helen is the school belle, Lionel did not have much chance being with her, hence he became Helen's good friend. George also knew Lionel liked Helen since ages ago. Then one day George told Lionel that he liked Helen, as he became attracted to her during that birthday party, finding her gorgeous. He then asked Lionel to help him out with Helen. Lionel being George and Helen's good friends, decided to help him gather information about Helen. Helen was seeing someone at that time, the school's football captain. Helen also found George cute after being informed by Lionel of George's interest, but she was devoted to her bf. Then one day, Helen broke up, her bf betrayed her, was seeing another ger. Helen was devasted, and Lionel being her good friend, comforted her, taking good care of her.

George knewing about the breakup, then decided to take action, he persuaded Lionel to help him. Helen was fond of the stars, then Lionel advised George to fold her some for her birthday. Even helping George to fold some of the stars and preparing other gifts as Helen's birthday approaches, but of cos all this is done in discreet. Lionel did not know what to do, one on hand he was hoping to celebrate Helen's birthday for her, yet on the other hand, he was helping George. In the end, Helen decided to accept George's invitation and was super touched with George's thoughtfulness of his gifts. Lionel was in a wreck. He then decided to confide in his and George's common friend, Oscar. He told Oscar everything, how he love Helen ever since he first saw her, how he helped George to woo her, how he comforted Helen and now Helen is in love with George.
He did not know what to do.

Then a few days later, Helen confronted Lionel, blaming him for telling Oscar that he had hold her hand while comforting her, now George knew about it and he was angry with her. He started to be super cold to her, and Helen was super upset with Lionel. After many rounds of apology and explanation to Helen and George, Helen and George then began close again.

After a few weeks, the whole class then went for a graduation trip, and strangely, George was paired up to be in same room as Lionel. They were no longer on talking terms. Lionel then saw George and Helen being very close and he was very upset, he couldn't sleep at night, he wanted to leave the place. George was already asleep. He then went to find Oscar, to ask him to go for a walk, but Oscar refused, Helen was around at that time, and she offered to go walk with Lionel as they are still very good friends. From the walk, Lionel knew that Helen was fond of George but she was not able to be herself while with him. Lionel that advise Helen on how to deal with George's weird temperament. They then got back, but then something happened again. They found out that George had followed them while they went for the walk and he did not like them being so close. He left soon after. Lionel did not know what to do, should he go explain to George or should he just bochap. Helen was also very tired of George's behaviour, hence she told Lionel not to bother with George anymore.

That night, Helen was wide awake, she kept thinking about her fondness of George, was he worth the effort? Would he end up like the football captain? She then thought of Lionel as well, he was always there for her, caring for her ever since high school, she was not sure if she was fond of him, but she was always at ease when with him. Always very comfortable, very happy when with him. She was very tired of tahaning George's behaviour. She then decided that enough is enough, she cannot always be the one giving way to George, she wants to be pampered as well. So she told herself, she will give George 1 month, if George did not go and find her, then George is history.

After that month, she found out that Lionel is the one, and she chose him after a few dates. For all those who dunno the story, they felt that Lionel is the bad ass. After reading this story, i still dunno who is the bad ass, is Lionel the evil one? Or he is not wrong at all?

Very wordy hoh, haha, just wanna share this story, for those taking a break while studying. Ok, have to go mug liao, Sorry about that! Comment leh, let me know if Lionel is the bad guy.