*these are exercices, you are free to comment, criticize and help*
Long-term relationship engineer their success around sacrifices, big and small. When you share your life with one of the sweetest persons on Earth, you have to be ready to fend off all the vultures that want to loot take advantage of her kindness. And sometimes, you just run into a mystifying oddball because nice people tend to have a lot of folk around them. Good folk, bad folk and really fucking strange folk. Like this guy.
I met him because he's dating the friend of a friend of my girlfriend. I know it's kind of far down the road, but house parties and social gatherings of all kind are going to put a lot of unrelated people in the same room. Most of them, you'll never talk to, but him...it's not only impossible not to notice him, but you WILL talk to him...because he's going to make you. Bobby (as I'll call him), doesn't walk into places, he storms into them with an energy I couldn't describe accurately with words. It's a mix of anger, despair and a very intense desire to please and have instantaneous friends. He's winging elbows to the ribs, winks and loud, easy jokes to make the atmosphere more cozy. His demeanor is the one of a misadapted anti-tobacco campaign spokesperson, but in his eyes, but he is stiff from discomfort and makes you wonder if he really wanted to put you at ease at the first place or make you feel how he feels too in presence of the others.
And in his eyes? There are the nameless places where his mind has been...where you don't want yours to go.
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