Love Blind - Erma prompt choice

This week's blog post match up is picked by Erma.

We are gonna have a different person pick a prompt each week and we all

have a week to get it written and up before the Sunday.

This week we have a little longer as it is our first week trying to get back in

the swing and there are events that have come up.

So all 3 stories need to be up before end of day on January 29. 

Here is the kickoff! The prompt is as follows:

Describe a person in two ways.

First, make us fall in love with them.

Second, make us hate them.

LOVE BLIND

- Erma Currin

Something about the way the cafeteria light hit his huge green eyes captivated me. The way his hair shaped his face. His adorable smile that could light up an entire room. Just looking at him gave me butterflies. We became really good friends and after a few months I asked him out. He gave me one of his hoodies, took me out on dates to the pool, and told me he loved me. If I was sad, he was right there to cheer me up! He would give me little love notes in my locker. He would compliment me and tell me I was beautiful. He would text me all the time and ask me how my day was. He called me his “adorable little bean.” It was great. He even came to my uncle's birthday party and met my family. He talked about how great of a girlfriend I was when he talked to his friends. He would tell me he was proud of me whenever I did anything good.  I wanted nothing more than to be with him, by his side, through all of life's challenges….. 

I have never been more wrong in my life….

I didn't realize it because all I saw when I looked at him was perfection… He was perfect to me! My friends and family tried to tell me it was toxic, that what he was doing was wrong! But I didn't listen… I told them “You just don't know him like I do! You don't see things the way I do!”. 

I had a really bad depression day and the world seem to just, hate me! So I called him, in tears. Just hearing his voice gave me a bit of comfort. What I didn't realize though, and what I had no way of knowing, was that he was hanging out with his best friend when I called him. He listened to me talk for about a minute before he told me “You're just overreacting! Shut up” all I could hear was his best friend laughing before he hung up on me. I started to realize that maybe… just maybe…. My friends and family were right.

I started hearing rumors that he was talking bad about me behind my back. And I was told that he said something that, to me, was the last straw. 

“I don't actually want to date her. I just don't want her to date anyone else”

I broke up with him but I cried about it for hours. I was too caught up on what we used to be and didn't take a minute to look at what it had become. and now? Now I know what to look for to keep myself safe, I'm dating someone that truly cares about me, and I am truly happy with someone else.