3 Carroty scenes from real life

[carrotgirl]

Pro-log (that's when you think your guy may have come from Twin Peaks)

Remember GD's poisonous snake of a friend? The one with the nice girlfriend? She saw me out with GD the other night (we didn't see her) and GD got what he called attacked at lunch yesterday.

 

Part 1.

Snake- Dude! Are you and Carrot back together?

GD- No!

Snake- This is really serious Dude. You've got to tell me.

GD- Why are you asking me this?

Snake- You've always been crazy about Carrot. I mean come on! How long have you been seeing her again?

GD- I don't know what you're talking about.

Snake- [His girlfriend] saw you two out. She said you looked like you were a couple.

Snake- You know it's okay if you're back together.

GD- We're not together.

Snake- Well it's okay if you're with Carrot again.

GD- Splutter.

 

Part 2.

And why are you telling me this? I snarled. You are so close to me telling you to f*sk the hell off. You come into my office to tell me this crap why? You're embarrassed about being with me? Because that's what it sounds like.

 

GD looked like I'd hit him. He said, That's not what I'm saying. I don't think that at all. I just thought you'd want to know everybody is talking about us being together I said, Snake and his girlfriend and Exlax hardly qualify as everybody. And I don't give a f*sk what they say anyway.

 

He got really quiet. I just thought you'd like to know what people are saying about us and you're the other person in the us. And I shouldn't have laughed but it was such a preposterous thing to say after he related his rant about how we're not together.

 

Part 3.

I said, Get over here. He complied and sat down. I climbed on top of him and faced him. He heaved an enormous comic sigh and then he put his arms around me with oh so much drama.

 

I think that was the nicest thing Snake's ever said about me. But you don't have to tell me this stuff anymore. I don't give a shh*t what people say. Unless they start talking about us getting married and then you should tell me immediately because I want to know when we're not getting married as soon as possible!

 

I held his face in my hands. GD smiled. We kissed. Okay? I asked. We kissed me some more. Okay, he said. Can we get out of here now? I asked. I'm frigging starving! GD said, I made Ratatouille last night. I love Ratatouille! I know you do, he said. So? My place? Dinner? Yah.

 

Carrot

[jdeedee]

(I just wanted to send a smile but that message is "too short" so... :) :) )

[sedgwick]

Carrot, are you a writer? Because you totally should be.

[carrotgirl]

Sed! Praise like that coming from a professional writer, wow. What do I say? Thank you. To be fair, the Snake + GD conversation was GD's telling and I didn't have the vocabulary to describe all that was going on with that telling. And I'm a little low on sleep so the intellect isn't so sharp. I'm not sure I understand it anyway. I think, I think he was venting. He needed an outlet and I was trusted. And I was there.

 

The rest was what it was. My temper flared (surprise) needlessly. He was only telling me his story. What was so good and so subtle was that GD and I dealt with reality a little differently, a little better, than we would have done a few months ago. I said what I thought and said it only once. I didn't walk away which for me was always a time out but for GD felt like punishment. GD didn't retreat emotionally and he didn't assume the you're emotional therefore I'm superior posture either.

 

It's not a wildly thrilling story is it? Two people find a way to be simple and okay in a moment of uncertainty. It really did lack drama. I remember thinking, questioning exactly that in a split second, Is this going to be a drama about ego? We could have drama or I could let go. GD must have let go too. The air around us after was calm, unconcerned, happy, good. With maybe just a wee tinge of what if it can, what if we can really be like this?

 

Carrot