Hey guys, its my first try at a story..be nice, show some love.
Mark was a college student, a gentleman if you must. In his 2nd year of study in college, he met her, his heartthrob, she was perfect in every way for him, a dazzling smile, a body to die for, a true beauty. To him, she was a goddess, she couldn’t have been better, she was Gina. His world was simply complete and thus began his travails in his journey to the land of the friendzone.
I really didn’t know if Gina loved Mark but they soon became friends, close friends actually. He would tell her all his secrets, secrets he never told anyone, she was his confidante. They were together all the time and he enjoyed every moment of it. His love for her consumed him, it wasn’t obsession at all, it was something else. Call me a critique but I call it slavery, he started doing chores for her, he was all about her, he did things he didn’t ordinarily do for anyone else. He was a ninny for her.
Gina was so possessive of Mark, she easily got jealous but she would rather die than admit it. It got so bad that in her presence he could not talk to other girls to avoid the severe repercussions that usually followed. Gina had a longtime admirer, Dexter. Once, they almost got to the point of dating and Mark was fully aware of this but that didn’t stop Gina from flirting with him. Several times, she kissed and hugged him in Mark’s presence. Often times, she would say to us ‘I need a boyfriend’ all the while with Mark right by her side. He didn’t deserve that but he didn’t mind- at least that was what he would have everyone believe, he kept a straight face through it all but if you looked closely, you could always see the hurt in his eyes and the frown tucked behind his straight face.
Once, Mark visited Gina and she locked him out of her house because he annoyed her, the funny thing was that Dexter was right there watching the whole scene unfold right before his eyes. Events like this were always occurring, if a joke was made about her and everyone laughed, if mark laughed he was in for some big trouble, if an argument was ongoing and he sided with her opponent, she would get angry, she got pissed off over the most trivial things, it was beyond my understanding. With Gina, Mark walked on thin ice around her, he didn’t want to get in her bad books. Mark had a roommate, Ian who always felt neglected and watched his best friend loose himself with Gina. Back in the days, I noticed that Gina had a thing with Ian, I do not know how deep it actually was. Ian could not do anything but watch Mark follow Gina like a lost puppy wagging its tail when the owner came along.
The most ironic thing was that Gina would always say mark was too soft and he usually gets controlled by girls. I said to myself, ‘aren’t you the person controlling him?’ Gina would always get angry whenever I said she had Mark’s control button with her, she would always say it was a lie but we knew the truth. I feel Gina loved him, though not as much as much as he did her, but in her own way she did love him even though she had a funny way of showing it. We all had a mutual friend Edna who would always poke fun about his dilemma. One day, I and Edna decided to talk to mark about his situation, we asked him to make a move, tell her how he felt, at first he denied every claim of being her slave but he later took our advice and I guess for a while it worked, he was finally behaving like a man, he finally worked up the courage to ask her out but she told him no, his heart was broken.
The story took a slight twist when Mark stood up for himself. Someone said when a man loves a woman, he can do just about anything for her, but there is only so much you can take and I guess Mark had had just enough, he completely distanced himself from Gina, it wasn’t a quarrel between them, it was just Mark taking a stand, Gina acted like she did not care but we knew better, deep down she missed him, it worked for a while but one day she called him, he walked up to her, he looked deep into her eyes and she gave him a dazzling smile, his breath caught in his chest, his heart stopped and he knew deep in his heart that he was never going to leave the friendzone for she had his heart and was never going to let go of it neither was she going to let him in.