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I guess I have to finally acknowledge that I'm not a nice girl. Or I haven't always been a nice girl. Or, I don't know. You may say I deserved what I got, but I just don't see it that way.
Do you remember high school? I don't know what your high school was like but mine was cutthroat. It wasn't like we were all equals, ya know? There was a food chain and you needed to work to be as high on that chain as possible. It was a constant battle. If you didn't periodically take out some of the dweebs and gillies you would eventually find a target on your own back. I didn't make the fuckin' rules. I never wanted to hurt others. I know some people got off on the kill. Not me. But I needed to survive. That was Darwin, right? Survival of the fittest? I still feel sorry for the mouse that is chewed up by the cat, but honestly, I'd rather be the friggin' cat.
The rules changed when I got to college. Some people say that the game stops completely; that's bullshit. There's more room to run and hide, but the jostling for position in the social hierarchy continues. I never gave it a lot of thought before. This is all just how life is. As I said, I didn't make the rules.
So I went off to college. My assigned roommate was some gloomy black-clad wacko who was just a little too fascinated with death. Just do it already so maybe I can have the room to myself, ya know? Me and Emo-Bitch didn't get along. There was a girl down the hall named Tina that was more my type and we quickly started hanging out. She had some lardo roommate so we felt each other's pain.
I wouldn't say Tina and I became close friends but we hung out. We joined an aerobics class together and even pledged the same sorority. Tina was pretty quiet, but she generally agreed with everything I said so we got along and it was easy to have her around. Is it condescending to say that she was a good sidekick?
Whatever, she was a good sidekick. She was shy so whenever we met guys, they focused on me. And that was just fine. Guys were integral to the game. The more that they wanted you, the more power you had. And I'm not just talking about the free drinks and free meals shit. No, the real power was the ability to influence them. Dropping hints that so-and-so has an STD, or that some girl was cheating on some guy, etc. Sometimes it would be true, sometimes not. Ultimately, truth was what people believed it to be.
Don't get me wrong, I liked guys. And I liked sex. But I wasn't so concerned about getting close to someone. Instead, I focused a lot on staying on top. I've seen too many girls go from being respectable chicks to piles of shit overnight. It's not a pretty sight. I have this recurring nightmare where that's me. I'm walking down the hall of some school building wearing absolutely dorky clothing and suddenly a ton of people flood into the hall and start laughing at me, pointing at me, calling me names. It's horrifying. It's that nightmare that keeps me from letting my guard down. Eat me if you don't understand.
Near the end of Freshman year I attended Shorts Night. That's shorts as in short films. Students, mainly aspiring directors, made these 15-minute movies and they were all shown one night in our big auditorium. Honestly, it seemed like it would be pretty boring but it was the big social thing to do so I had to go, if for no other reason than to be able to make fun of peoples' stupid movies. It's just one of those things that you have to do if you're going to stay on top.
So I went. After a couple of hours I was getting pretty bored. But then a film started that was titled, "Stacey". The guy I was with joked with me, "hey, that must be about you!" because, well that was my name. How creative.
After showing the title against a black background for ten seconds, a big image of my face appeared on the screen. I stared at it in utter confusion. Why the hell was a picture of my face on the screen? What the hell was going on?
As hidden camera footage of me continued to appear on the screen, it quickly became clear that this movie was indeed about me. And it wasn't flattering.
The first scene showed me putting on makeup in my dorm room. Of course, I wasn't just putting on makeup but also practicing making faces. It's amazing how many different expressions you can use to let people know that they, or someone else, is a piece of shit. And they can be very effective. But having people see me rehearse was pretty embarrassing, and there were quite a few chuckles in the audience. Given that it was in my dorm room it was pretty clear that Emo-Bitch had to be behind it. And I had already started planning how I was going to make her regret this for the rest of her miserable life.
The second scene showed me walking across campus with Tina. Someone must have been walking right behind us to film us and pick up our conversation. I really couldn't believe it would have been Emo-Bitch as I would have noticed that creepy wench following us, so I figured it had to be someone else that was helping her. Then I finally clued in on the conversation. I was ripping on Lacey, our sorority president. Fuckin' everyone hates her but people kowtow to her just because she somehow became president. It wasn't like I was saying anything about her that everyone didn't already know: that she was a "fuckin' cunt" and a "goddamn bitch whore", among other things. No news there. But this was going to be a pain in my ass as I was now going to have to fight to stay in the house. Fuckin' irritating.
The next scene wasn't any better. It showed me at some party, talking to various people. You couldn't really hear any of the conversations, but it soon became clear that what I was saying wasn't the point. So one guy came up to me and we started talking and I was being friendly, perhaps flirting a bit with him. But then he walked away, I think to get a drink, and the camera showed my happy, friendly face melt away into a look of disgust for him. Then another guy approached me and the whole scene repeated itself. Whoever was behind this was obviously trying to make me seem like a two-faced bitch.