"Excuse me when do you start kicking people out?"
"Three in the morning," answered the bartender.
"Thank you."
I couldn't help but let out a sigh. I guess I would take up Arduino's offer.
"Arduino, yes I will," I said walking towards him.
"Cara mio, you will not regret it."
"I hope you're right. I can't take this…this. THIS." I said waving my arms to somehow encompass and express what I was feeling at that moment.
"Do not worry, we are here to drink and talk away the emotion. Bartender two Bellinis, and a bottle of Prosecco s'il vous plait. Now preciosa please tell me everything, from the very beginning. I will not interrupt."
"It all started at Casper High School. I was the queen bitch, god I really hate my younger self. And he was…not as well noted as I was. He was sweet and kind of random. I knew he liked me then, and used him for my benefit. I would get him to do things for me. He always had this sweet innocent look on his face when he saw me. It was filled with tender love. If he wasn't so blind when it came to me, he would have seen the self-serving greed, the vanity, which filled my eyes."
After a silence, Arduino filled two glasses with Prosecco, and motioned for me to continue.
Taking a rather huge swig to fortify myself, I continued.
"Well later on he gave up on me, when his friends made him see reality. He then went on to date Sam, I never noticed. I had simply forgotten him. While this was happening I had fallen for a superhero of sorts. He was dashing, and mysterious, and mostly well liked. I was to find out; that he was… is Danny. I should have guessed. Danny Phantom, Danny Fenton. Only a complete idiot like my younger self would have missed it. I was confused and well just confused, because really I didn't know how to articulate what I was feeling. Then all that was brushed aside with the tragedy that happened in my family. It took a few years for you to show up and clear that mess up. And and.. oh Arduino, I messed up I really did.."
I started sobbing. He set his drink on the counter and wrapped his arms around me gently rubbing my back. He was the best friend I never had.
"Ma petite, not to worry, I promise to help you sort this whole messy ordeal."
"B- but how?"
"You will see, Tesoro, now finish the story."
"Okay" I whispered with a slight hiccup.
I told him the rest of it. Well I told his shoulder to be more accurate. I told him , how I met Danny again, in a chemistry class. That Sam and him had separated amicably, but he didn't even recognize me. And when I reintroduced myself to him again his face had turned sad and hurt. After that encounter he proceeded to courteously ignore me. He was polite but nothing else. And that over the course of the semester I had fallen in love with him. When I acted upon my feelings he said that he wasn't going to date for the time being.
By the end of my spiel; Arduino had paid the tab and drove my sad drunk ass to his home so he could keep an eye on me.