Board 8 > Stevie shares a life conspiracy theory [Stevie "doesn't" Dates]

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So as I do on a frequent basis, I've recently overthought a life situation of mine and have come to the conclusion that I was on the losing end of a plan to find a girl that I've been super into a boyfriend, because of my recent change to a more positive outlook on life. Yes, it's as ironic as it sounds. Let's dive into it.

So as backstory, this event will follow the adventures of the following:

Stevie - your handsome protagonist, and regular f*** up
Amy - girl that I've known for the last year and a half, crazy life story, I've been super into
Olivia - freshman girl I met this year that seemed super easy going and I got along with
Thomas - football player that I've gotten to know other the last year, good guy
Rick - the guy in charge of the group that the rest of us all met through

We pick up the story about a month ago. Our group usually gets together to hang out somewhere every Friday, and this particular Friday we went to Rick's house to watch a movie. There were about 10 of us there, among those 10 were myself and Olivia. I hadn't talked to her much in the past, but while we were all hanging out I noticed people off in the other room playing Checkers, and being the naturally talented superstar I am, had to show whoever was winning that there was a real champ and his name was Stevie. So as expected, I stepped in, and won that Checkers showdown with ease. The person I beat was Olivia, and after the game everyone else went to the next room to watch the movie, while her and I stayed put and hung out on the couch for a bit. It occurred to me then that from my last memory, she had a boyfriend, and so a series of events moved me to the movie room for the rest of the night because I'm not the kind of guy to pull that kind of s***. Well fast forward a week, and I'm out with a different friend of mine from the group, when he drops on me that Olivia and I would be good together, and when I mentioned her boyfriend, he told me they broke up 2 weeks prior (he wasn't aware of what had happened that Friday). I saw my chance, and I went for it, so that Friday when we hung out I just talked to her, nothing crazy because we were bowling and as previously mentioned I have to show off my natural talents (I got crushed in bowling). The night goes on, and honestly she didn't feel into it. Not even on a relationship level, it just kind of seemed like it wasn't happening like it was the week before. She ends up leaving early, and I'm feeling a little disappointed. Last game of the night, around 1 am, I'm sitting there relaxing because I had already lost what little bowling ability I had, when Amy sits down next to me (not surprisingly, there were only about 5 of us there by that time). We talked for the rest of the night, and things felt right. This wasn't the first time, last fall the first time we hung out as a group, myself, her, and a mutual friend drove an hour away to a beach at midnight and hung out all night. There were a few times where we genuinely got along, and then other times where she would cancel plans or invite her other friends to plans that were supposed to be just us, so the mixed signals kind of put me off to the idea of trying anything. But the pity of potential rejection was strong, and can make a man more bold than he would have been prior, so the next day, I took my shot.

UP NEXT: THE CONSPIRACY THEORY BEGINS AND STEVIE'S LIFE GOES FROM PRETTY ALRIGHT TO NOT SO ALRIGHT.
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tl;pihb

So when we last left our hero, Olivia seemed uninterested, Amy and Stevie got along, Stevie discovered he was good at Checkers but bad at bowling. Stevie was about to fall down a rabbit hole into Ohio's version of Wonderland, which like Ohio's version of anything, was much worse and more disturbing.

Saturday morning rolls around, the day after the bowling events, and I was just leaving the little pity party I threw myself the night before. During my figurative walk of shame, I "realized" that anything I had thought with Olivia was a sham, and that Amy was the girl I should've been focusing on this whole time. So I made my move, and invited Amy to grab lunch sometime that day. An hour goes by, 2 hours go by, nothing. Life in shambles. I had a newfound confidence but still went 0 for 2. Still on a pity party comedown I decided not to worry about it and move on, and just as I do that, boom, Twitter notification on my phone. Olivia had found my Twitter, which I had never mentioned to anyone from the group as they rarely use social media and I didn't care much for it either. But suddenly I had multiple social medias telling me she had either added me or liked things on already added platforms. Now, I don't know many rules regarding social media or women, but the one I was always told was "if they spam, they're interested". Where did this come from? Just the other night she seemed so against it, now she's not? I wasn't gonna question, I sent her a message, and we get to talking for the rest of the day. The next day too. We were really getting along, and found out we have gaps in our class schedules that lined up perfectly. So we set a date for Wednesday to get lunch and hang out. Things were great, I was feeling really good about everything. Amy did end up responding that Saturday, about 6 hours later, saying she "took a nap" and then was busy that night so we'd reschedule later in the week. I got the message, figured she didn't wanna lead me on or whatever and I was fine with that, slightly more fine considering the events that followed my text, but still.

So the week begins and I'm feeling good. Monday afternoon, I get a text from Rick. He's inviting me to his house for dinner Tuesday. I thought "cool, I like free homecooked meals, much better than Ramen" and agreed to go. Everything was great, Rick's house Tuesday, lunch with Olivia Wednesday, I was on top of the world. Fast forward to Tuesday night, I'm getting ready to go to Rick's house, and it occurs to me his house is a distance away and I don't have my car on campus. How was I going to get there? It was around that time I get a text that says "hey I'll pick you up for Rick's house in about half an hour". It was from Amy. It was followed by a text from Rick asking if Amy got in touch with me about picking me up. I wasn't aware she would be there, but it suddenly became clear to me. In the 2 years I've known Rick, he'd never invited me to his house. Why the sudden invitation? He had even mentioned he had been inviting people over for dinner "for a while now". What had changed? Did my Saturday text start something I was since not able to finish?

Well I'm off to class now so this story finishes later. But up ahead, the conspiracy goes deeper, things go south, and we get to the reason why this story is above and beyond the usual Stevie story and worth making this topic. UNTIL NEXT TIME.
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tag
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if anyone cares enough to actually read all this s*** you should just take their advice no questions asked

Stevie3V posted...

Stevie - your handsome protagonist

wait is this one not about you
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Steiner posted...

Stevie3V posted...

Stevie - your handsome protagonist

wait is this one not about you

Obv not
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profDEADPOOL posted...

Steiner posted...

Stevie3V posted...

Stevie - your handsome protagonist

wait is this one not about you

Obv not

Clearly I changed every name to protect those involved, why would mine be any different tbh
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Just finished the first post and I want to confirm that you haven't expressed explicit interest in either Amy or Olivia at this point, right? Just making sure
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foolm0r0n posted...

Just finished the first post and I want to confirm that you haven't expressed explicit interest in either Amy or Olivia at this point, right? Just making sure

This is correct.
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Okay after the 2nd post this is getting good... could go in a lot of different directions
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tag
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He is going to murder you.

Bang the second one.

Eat some waffles.
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Tag
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Stevie3V posted...

Ohio

well there's your problem!
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i didn't read any of these posts, but I think I should get some gift advice in my other topic. thanks.

also my answer is just do it (again, didn't read)
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I realized halfway through the first part of the story that I think I live vicariously through Stevie's complicated dating experiences because mine are laughably mundane.

update soon plz
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I read this story and I, like usual, don't know what happened

but man like if you're isolated w/ a woman stop being a b**** or whatever....there you go
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Where did I leave off? Oh yeah, dinner at Rick's. So Amy picks me up and already I'm doing better than the Stevie of old, as I don't make things awkward. They stay normal, crazy right? Normal ride there, and dinner begins. I walk in, and notice that Amy wasn't the only unexpected guest joining us, Thomas is there as well. I thought "oh cool, he probably just invited a bunch of us, no big deal" and it calmed me down a good bit. We had a nice dinner, talked about sports and I think dead animals for a bit because why not, and everything was alright. Slight hiccup came when the natural, homecooked meal RAVAGED my artificial, unhealthy stomach, and I was caught in the juggle of thinking we were leaving and then not so I wasn't able to excuse myself and nearly died, but y'know what I was strong, it didn't change much. But the night overall went well, hung out with everyone, Rick's young children surprisingly didn't think I was a large terrifying figure (maybe it was the hair, now that my hair is short I may not scare babies anymore so that's dope). Anyway, I had mentioned to Rick my lunch with Olivia the next day, and he reacted a little strange to it. He kept insinuating we were "just going as friends, right?" to which I would respond "well, we haven't gotten to know each other that well yet so sure, friends for now". It was strange, and fueled my suspicions of the night, but overall I didn't wanna torture myself with the thought. So I get home that night, and as I'm lying in bed I get a text. It's from Amy, she's asking me if I had Thomas' number so she can "invite him to hang out with us that Friday". Thing was, not only was I certain Rick had his number and was the better person to ask than me, Thomas had already said he wouldn't be in town that weekend when I asked him at dinner. So there was no point in asking, making it clear that wasn't her intention. It didn't bother me that she was interested in him, I was getting lunch with Olivia, but it did bother me that she went to me about it. Did Rick tell her about my lunch date? Was she trying to make me jealous or distance from me? At this point, it could all just very well be coincidence, so while it sat in the back of my mind, I didn't give it much more thought. I was more focused on my lunch date.

UP AHEAD: THINGS GET BAD, STEVIE GETS SAD, WE'RE NEAR THE END OF THIS AWFUL TALE.
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Just kidding things stay happy a little longer, I bet you all thought I f***ed up the lunch date but THAT'S NOT ME ANYMORE I'M A CHANGED MAN.

So Wednesday rolls around, and I wait in the hall outside of her class for her to take an exam. Nice way to catch up on some homework really. She finishes the exam, and off we go. We went to Chipotle, I bought her burrito, I since regret it because s*** MAN $7 PUTS A HURTING ON A COLLEGE UNEMPLOYED WALLET. It was nice though, we had good conversation, laughed a lot, good times were had. After Chipotle, we walked back to her car to get an art project she had been working on, a cardboard model of a ukulele. Looked crazy realistic, 2 people had mistaken it for real. She also had a real one for reference, so we ended up just walking around campus for about half an hour while I played and sang most every ukulele song I know, which is like 4 or 5, but you can't pick up a ukulele and not just play it forever really. We part ways, and life goes on. Everything was so great, in the matter of a week I had a successful dinner, talked to and went on a date with a great girl, handled a potentially awkward situation, got my first haircut from a barber, and things were looking up. Top it all off, the next day I started on antidepressants, and was feeling better than I ever have in my life. Things were stable, right?

Nah.

Jump to Friday, the plan is for our group to go to a pizza place, eat pizza, and watch our school's basketball game (we lost, but the story ends pretty well for them at least). This part of the story I've kind of dug deep already so if things seem like they're coming back to me as I type them... they are. So Olivia picks me up to get pizza because again, I have no car, and she commutes so it made sense. Small hiccup prior, I had to let my usual ride know they didn't have to get me this time... which was Amy. That felt kind of weird. But it was nice, we had a normal car ride, and I'm a fan of pizza so it could only get better. Pizza was great, I talked to Olivia, talked to other friends, and felt really great because it was my first full day of antidepressant. In hindsight, Amy seemed to make 1 or 2 small moves at me, but they weren't enough to catch my attention past Olivia so again, could all just be coincidence. We watch the game, I crashed a bit because it was late, we had s*** seats, and the game was boring, but whatever. Not everything has to be eventful. Because our basketball stadium is on campus, I walked back to my dorm from the game. Probably could've done more in my goodbyes with Olivia, but there was another friend from the group there who seemingly didn't get the picture, and it would've made things a bit too awkward and I didn't want to put her in a weird position. During the night, I made a good observation though. At a point, we were all standing for a while at the game, and one by one we started to sit on the bleachers. When Olivia turned around to sit, she noticed another person from the group's feet were on the spot she'd be sitting in, and instead of asking him to move them, she just turned back around and stood a bit longer. That may not mean anything, but it does kind of point to a small amount of social awkwardness, which was an interesting thing considering how outgoing she seemed.

AND NOW IT GETS SAD. I'd say maybe 1-2 more posts max left in the story, and I may sound kind of self-pitying near the end of it and I apologize in advance for that.
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Now it is Saturday. I wake up, feel great, and am ready to take on the day. About mid-afternoon I send Olivia a snapchat, which I'm not the greatest at using but she uses it a lot so I figured I'd adapt, and I get... nothing. No response. I didn't panic, well not too much, people get busy and all that jazz. Day comes and goes, I hear nothing from her, and in my head I started to fear something's up. Didn't go crazy about it, but when Sunday rolled around I sent her a text asking if she was free Monday for lunch again. "Idk." Yeah, something's up. "Everything alright?" "Yeah." I'm not dumb, I've caught on by now. It's exactly what I expected. "Doesn't seem like it." And bullseye. She explains that she had just gotten out of a long relationship a month ago, and didn't want to move on just yet. She wanted to "be single for a while". Surprisingly I was upbeat and OK, I didn't want to friendzone myself but I wasn't actually upset with her decision. "I understand where you're coming from, moving on can take time. But I've enjoyed hanging out with you and getting to know you." "Thanks." AND THERE WE GO. Ego in shambles. Message, abundantly clear, this was over. "Guess I'll see you on Friday, yeah?" "Of course." Game over. Friend tells me not to give up on her yet, but I know it's done. People don't just go that short on you for nothing. I figured I either pushed too far or too little, she came to her senses, life goes on. I'm upset, but I could manage from there. But clearly, that's not where this story ends.

That week comes and goes, I was doing a decent job moving on but it still was a bit of a bummer to have the potential option of getting lunch with someone weekly poof into thin air. Friday rolls around, and it's suggested we go to... not kidding... "Kentchella". Kent State. Cochella. College indie music fest in winter. I informed them it would likely be lame, they didn't listen, we went anyway. It was lame. Stupidly lame. Add to it that I'm suddenly out a person to hang out with, and 2 of my other friends skipped out on it while a third was with his fiance who was in town, I was pretty much left to my own devices in literally the rec center turned into a music festival. I tried my best to enjoy myself, but it wasn't happening. I noticed someone missing though about halfway through the night. Rick, Amy, and Thomas were MIA. Go figure. Olivia didn't talk much to me, I realized she didn't really want to hang out with us anyway because, how about it, she had guy friends there she was gonna hang out with. And to clarify, I never once mentioned a relationship to her. Never insinuated one, never talked about one. Became clear to me "I want to be single" meant "I don't want to hang out with you". Something worse than the indie fest. Huh. We regroup with Rick, Amy, and Thomas down the road, and after watching them finish their game of Giant Jenga, the most interesting thing there, we ended up leaving very early because lame. Olivia stays, as Snapchat would show to party with 2 dudes all night, and if you've kept up so far it would be no surprise to you that I was brought back to my dorm by Amy and her roommate.

We're gonna put the end of this story in a final post. This car ride shook me.
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hurry up and finish
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Tl;dr times like 9
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There I am, in the back of a truck with Amy and her roommate, left to my own thoughts about why Olivia stopped talking to me, and what could've been. Then I hear Amy say to her roommate, "so how was I?" my heart sunk. "did I act better this time?" "what do you mean?" her roommate was chuckling. "You know, did I act like a normal human being would?" A normal human being would. That's what I say about every girl I talk to. I've never heard anyone talk like that other than me. And here this girl was, acting the same nervous way I do thinking back to being with someone I was into, towards another guy. With me right there. Cruel fate struck me hard. I went back to my room and just froze in place, I didn't know what to think. I ended up with nothing, and I couldn't decide if I was dumb or if things just didn't work out and the world felt the need to bash me over the head. I felt like garbage, I tried to go to my best friend back home about it, but pulled back because her and her new boyfriend were always together and seemed crazy happy so I put my issue on the backburner and just tried to move past it. Went home that weekend, hung out with friends, was able to clear my head and get back in a good place. I'm all good now, obviously the situation still sucks ass, but I'm able to look above it and keep my head up now which is cool.

Here's where my head trips itself up though. Rick was a common denominator here. He put Amy in a situation with myself and/or Thomas each time. But that dinner was both of us. The fest was just Thomas. I started forming a timeline, I text Amy, Rick sets up a surprise dinner, I tell him about Olivia at the dinner, he's hesitant, that night Amy texts me about Thomas. Suddenly it's all Thomas and I'm out of the picture. Was I part of a set up where Rick helped Amy decide between myself and Thomas? Is that a reach? Is it all coincidence? At the end of the day, it doesn't change anything. If my theory is true, there were no negative intentions, it just didn't go my way. But sitting here with Olivia and her sea of dudes on one side and Rick pushing Amy and Thomas together on the other side, I can't help but feel pretty bad about the whole thing. I don't know where I go from here, it's been a week since this all went down and nothing new has developed. Seems like at the end of the day, I lost. Don't think there's much more that could go on from here.
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I GUESS WE'LL PUT ALL THIS MESS IN BULLET POINTS!

-Stevie likes girl
-Girl has boyfriend
-Stevie backs off
-Girl didn't have boyfriend
-Stevie un-backs off
-Girl seems uninterested
-Stevie hits it off with Girl 2
-Stevie asks Girl 2 to lunch
-Nothing
-Girl 1 shows sudden interest in Stevie
-Stevie talks to Girl 1
-Stevie plans lunch with Girl 1
-Stevie invited to surprise dinner
-Girl 2 is there, as is another dude
-Stevie tells group leader about Girl 1 lunch
-Girl 2 texts Stevie randomly about Dude
-Stevie gets lunch with Girl 1
-Stevie thinks things are well with Girl 1
-Girl 1 suddenly dodges Stevie and says "k bye"
-Girl 1 hangs out with a ton of dudes anyway, not Stevie
-Girl 2 nervously flirts with Dude and then talks about it while Stevie can hear
-Stevie left with nothing
-Stevie assumes group leader tried to set Girl 2 up with either Stevie or Dude
-Stevie mentioning Girl 1 made Girl 2 pick Dude
-Everyone wins, except of course Stevie

THAT'S A LOT OF BULLETS.
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Yeesh, I've been down that road, pining for someone who was interested in someone else. It's a tough one. But guy, get a better eye for girls. Just cause you want one doesn't mean you should pursue everyone who comes your way, you gotta get to know them, that way you don't get your heart stomped on as much.
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I'm at the end of post 3 and this is already too depressing

JUST TELL THEM YOU WANT TO BONE
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MysticBrohan posted...

tl;pihb

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Ok, now I actually read the bullet points.

f*** both of them (NOT LITERALLY) and move on.
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Okay those antidepressants are f***ing you up bro
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I'm not an expert or anything and maybe I'm not understanding some details, but it seems like if either of these girls was actually interested in you, nothing Rick had said or done would have actually made any difference.

So you didn't really "lose" anything.
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disclaimer never take advice from foolmo he just wants to laugh at your failure
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SmartMuffin posted...

disclaimer never take advice from foolmo he just wants to laugh at your failure

the ironic thing is that foolmo is the only person Stevie has ever regularly listened to in these topics
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Stevie only posts in the past tense nowadays, I can't tell him what to do anymore

So laughing is all there is!
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I'm just not getting the same conspiracy theory you are

This is definitely a case of overthinking things imo
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Who the hell is Rick
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greengravy294 posted...

Who the hell is Rick

Stevie3V posted...

Rick - the guy in charge of the group that the rest of us all met through

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yeah but why are kids going to some dude's house who has kids?

that sounds weird...but it's also ohio so i guess its an ohio thing?
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All of Stevie's friends here are 35
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wow you're an old man
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Steiner posted...

Stevie3V posted...

Stevie - your handsome protagonist

wait is this one not about you

ha ha good one
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I can't imagine wanting to talk about my life to anyone this much
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honestly i feel like my last 3 days could be summarized in about a paragraph
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Guys I'm not kidding though, Stevie literally just took antidepressant drugs for the first time ever. This seems like a symptom.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Guys I'm not kidding though, Stevie literally just took antidepressant drugs for the first time ever. This seems like a symptom.

I'm not seeing your logic here, I feel like I haven't acted any differently, certainly not any more negatively. If anything, this situation would have crushed me a few months ago, but I feel like I've reacted quite well to it all. That's kind of what I wanted out of an antidepressant, not anything that made me less me, but gave me the ability to be more positive about things.

But if you're talking about paranoia, I assure you that a GameFAQs topic being as far as I've gone with this is nothing short of a modern medical miracle.
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lol none of this means anything

i know you've probably heard it a million times before, but all of this is just dumb s***

stop caring about such dumb s*** and live your life with you as your first priority and everything tends to fall into place

...but also keep posting about this kind of stuff because it entertains me
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also, the girls probably can smell the desperation emanating from your body
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Aecioo posted...

also, the girls probably can smell the desperation emanating from your body

That's my natural scent.
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do you have a hangup about sleeping with girls? Like, if one of them invited you to their room and took her shirt off, what would you do?
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neonreaper posted...

do you have a hangup about sleeping with girls? Like, if one of them invited you to their room and took her shirt off, what would you do?

I dunno but he'd definitely type a 600 word paragraph about it.
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