7 Avoiding embarrassment (Part 1)

'I kissed her as soon as I saw her.'

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It was the beginning of the new semester. I was walking towards my department building when suddenly a girl pulled me by my hand towards her. In front of us was her supposedly ex-boyfriend. 'I will date him, you're not good enough for me.' she said. It was just a bad ass scenario where a girl dumps a guy bringing another guy in the picture.

I was lost in the moment and only after she dragged me from there did I realise that I've been used as a breakup tool.

'Calm down, okay!' I told her to take a deep breath and relax. 'Was it really necessary to go to such lengths for the sake of breakup' I asked her in a haste.

She was hyperventilating as it is now she started crying as well. I wonder what use was it to cry over spilled milk. Why breakup in the first place if you're going to regret it later?

It turns out that she was dumped by this dude in high school and now she encountered him in college. He was being a bully to look cool. I became a sorry sight for trying to lecture her earlier.

Earlier, I was judging the book by it's cover. I criticised her in my head for being so cruel to a guy. Also, this was a bit cowardly I thought.

But, after listening to her story, I think she can totally flunk the semester at this rate.

I gave her a few words of encouragement and went my way. A few days later, she came to me again in order to persuade me to accompany her to a dinner party of her department.

I refused as I thought a lie shouldn't be stretched so far. She should face the difficult time looking them in the eye who were making it hard for her. Moreover, I didn't want to meddle with someone else business.

To my bad luck, the very next day I became the hot topic of my department. My ex- girlfriend, while throwing a fit to her boyfriend quoted something about me. That jerk started using my name to create jokes that I don't even know how to keep a girl. Or who would even want to date me. It further went on to how my appearance is that of a Playboy.

Somehow my ex also got involved in the drama and it became a two versus one, out of nowhere I got dragged into a fight. I kept my calm and ignored all of it until the next day my ex taunted me in front of everyone.

'Girls can hangout with him but nobody would want to love somebody like him.' she said while I was passing by.

This got to my head.

I wanted to face he boyfriend over it first but my ex- girlfriend was very pleased by his actions and came to his rescue.

While, I was being shamed for my incapability of having a long term relationship, I saw her, the breakup girl.

In that moment I understood her desperation. I rejected her request to attend dinner earlier because I couldn't understand it's importance then.

I ran like something towards her and kissed her. She was shocked, so much so that she couldn't react afterwards.

I grabbed her hand and started walking towards the exit. After walking with me for a while, she jerked my hand and screamed, 'Do you think you can do that to me?' She was furious, 'Just because I asked you to have dinner with me, you think I'm desperate enough to let you manipulate me? What gives you the right to do so?'

After almost an eternity, her rant went off and I got the chance to apologise properly. She wouldn't let me utter even a single word. Although I'm thankful I didn't get slapped in front of all those people, I can't say I'm on cloud nine either.

I apologized to her and told her my story. I only kissed her on cheeks and not on the lips so I don't know why the intensity of her anger is this high. Either way, I'm in the wrong and I ask her for forgiveness.

She walked away without saying a single word. She had been a radio just now and suddenly she leaves. She is probably hurt because of my actions and I need to mend with her.

I don't know what to do or say to make her understand that my intentions were not ill. After giving a lot of thought and looking at it from a third person perspective I finally realise how childish my behavior was.

So much for avoiding embarrassment, can't do anything about it now. I'll just have to convince her at any cost otherwise I'll become the laughing stock of the department.

I can only wait for tomorrow to make things right. Meanwhile I'm just racking my brain for all the good things that I can say to convince her. I'm being a jerk to her, I know. But, who was the one who initiated the idea?