A friend of mine has had a crush on my girlfriend for a couple of years. He tries to schedule lunch with her every now and then; he sometimes succeeds and, for one hour every now and then, she witnesses his attempts to sound quirky, attractive, perhaps sensitive. The world may not be so bad at all, he thinks after he comes back to his office, starry-eyed.
He doesn’t know she is my girl.
On Friday he sends her an email; I’m not privy to the body of the message, I just know he splutters something like “… and this is a song I really LOVE…”, yes, in capitals, and then a link. Amusing. At home, she and I follow the link and the lyrics begin:
When the darkness takes me over
Face down, emptier than zero
Invisible you come to me
..quietly
Stay beside me
Whisper to me “Here I am”
And the loneliness fades
And the words only get worse and worse and worse. I am still amused, but not very happy, especially because I am having coffee with him on Sunday; “let’s catch up, I haven’t seen you in months!”, he had said.
I go and tell him I have an amazing lover, the most sexual person I have ever met and will ever meet. He congratulates me. “I’m planning to start a family. I think my wife is the woman of my life”, he says and sips some espresso.
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