RANTS ON PERCEPTIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS

BY FLIPPER66

Authors note: We've all heard of the so called war between those that are

refered to as the sweet nice guys and the proverbial jerks. The Alpha males

and the Beta males as they are called . This is written from a nice guys

perspective but one with an open mind and willing to be honest (hopefully).

Much in this story you may agree with and some you may not at first , but if

one is honest with oneself there is a truth to be found in this story (at least

somewhere).

Garrett Bols was sitting in composition class at Northridge High School and

the teacher of the class just assigned them a term paper that was to be turned

in 6 weeks from that day. According to the assignment it could be on any

topic. "Oh, whoppeee!" Garrett thought having no idea at present what his

would be about. About that time one of his classmates sitting next to him ,

"Gary (my short name), i need to talk to you after school can i come over to

your house after school?" Jasmine asked. Jasmine was a good friend but not

really into me however much that i wished that wasn't so. She just saw me as

just a friend (a very close friend) but never the less just a friend. Let me

discribe her , she is 5 ft. 8 inches , blonde with blue- green eyes sort of odd

really but it was definitly not distracting from her looks, very athletic body

type because she was a majorrett (you know twirling a batton before a

marching band) She was in the very famous Ohio State Blackhawks . The last

three years running she had taken 1st place in all competion. Needless to say

she was somewhat popular at school and a lot of guys chasing her wanting to

be friends or better. She also had a lot of jerks for boyfreinds . Which no

doubt is why she's wanting to talk to me after school today ...hmmm... "let's

see if i'm right." I turned to Jasnine , " Hey Jasi , whats up , that guy giving

you problems again?" "Yah, but can we wait to talk about it at your house ?"

she asked. I lowered my voice and said , "Sorry Jasi , i wasn't trying to

broadcast your guy problems , ya fer give meeeee puuueeesssss..." giving her

my puppy dog eyes looked which generally got her to laugh. "yes , i forgive

you ," as she punched my arm rather hard as she laughed. "Ow... that her

girl you been working out?" She started to punch my arm again but i moved

alittle faster and she missed. She rolled her eyes and looked over at me and i

could almost read her mind "your going to get it yet bub" as she smiled at me

with sort of a glaring look.

When the last bell of the day rang i went to my locker and threw what books

i didn't need into my locker for the night. I couldn't see carrying a load that

was unnecessary to take home only to lug back the next day. I closed my

locker door and started to turn around and almost walked right into Jasmine.

"Whoa... , i,m sorry Jasi i didn't know you were there." "Thats alright Gary,

i was just wondering if you minded if i rode to your house with you now?"

"No problem Jasi", i responded.

I want to take the time now to tell you alittle about myself, hey come on now

you know you want to know this stuff so you get a picture of me in your

mind. Well i'm exactly 6 ft. tall, sandy blond hair thats wavy , blue with a hint of gold fleck eyes which were near sighted (yep that means i wear glasses

can't wear contacts tried but they iretated my eyes to much and made them

look blood shot all the time.) i weigh about 198 pounds last time i was on

scales. I'm not going to say i was ugly to look at but i definitly wasn't what

some would call a face man (you know what a lot of people call exceptional

attractive and good looking) I'm what many would call a book worm even

though what i read is mostlty on the internet. Which in most of my free time i

was generally on. Yep i also earned several bad nicknames such as 4 eyes ,

eaghead , goody two shoes, and a whole slew of others. However some of my

redeeeming qualities was my weird sense of humour and i was a good

listener. Not that it ever helped me much in the matters of the heart . Well

enough about me so lets get back to the good stuff.

Jasi and i were walking out of the school building towards the parking lot

towards my 1962 Ford Falcon Sprint , yah a real classic , which took a lot for

me to restore. She is a beaut, candy apple red with gold flake, chromed wire

rims and a 289 cu. in. that made it the Sprint. One of my friends had

suggested a 390 cu..in. To bad it wouldn't fit the frame though just alittle to

big. Ok i'm rambling again sorry.

Jasi the whole time was alittle to quiet the whole ride to my house , i fiqured

let her be i'll probably find out soon enough whats going on between her and

Scott Jenings. Lets see how can one be tactful about Scott hmmmm...

i quess one can't especially me. Scott was what many would call BMOC

(thats big man on campus) Athletic , extremly good looking (yah the face

man type), the star running back of the football team . Scott was a player i don't mean in the since as a jock in sports , but had dated and went with 25

of the 160 girls of the 312 student body . He'd date them until he got what he

wanted (usually their v-card putting it mildly) and then dump them .

Something i couldn't understand all , the girls knew this about him but would

line up so to speak to be his next victim . And in my opinion for whats its

worth , the biggest jerk in school.

I pulled up in front of my house parking in my drive way, i exited my car

after telling Jasmine that i'd get the door for her. Opened the door and helped

her out of the car. At the time she was wearing a slight frown , "Ok Jasi ,

you've been to quiet the whole ride whats the matter?" Jasi turned to me as

we were walking up to my front door , "Oh , i was just thinking that i wished

Scott was alittle like you." she said with a weak smile. For the next hour and

a half she rambled on about Scott and his behavior while i figuretivly gave

her a sholder to cry on . Jasi looked at me a gave a small sigh ,"thanks for

listening , i quess i just needed to vent to someone that would listen," As

she started walking towards my front door with me following. "Ya ," i said .

"i quess i could write a book on all the things that my gal pals have vented

about." Jasi looked back at me as i was closing the door ,"yes i quess you

could couldn't you." Jasmined only lived a block away and she said she would walk home from there. After she left it suddenly dawned on me what

my composition paper was goiung to be about.

Authors note : ok guys this is just the prologue to my story let me know if

you like it so far. If i get enough response i'll continue this story , Possibble

even if i don't i'll post until the story concludes. If you haven't read any of my

other stories please do so. Ya i know some of them are in caps but i'm

working on them as i get the opertunity to do so to get rid of excessive caps.

Also if you review and let me know what you think and maybe make some

suggestions as to how to make my chararcters more beleivable it would be

appreciated greatly. So if you'll do that i'll recipercate to yours also. Catch ya

all on the flip side. (thats CB talk for talk to you latter).