So I decide to attend tonight’s football game. I was bored, and needed something to fill my time. I get in the car.

Game starts. Spend most of the time mingling. Run into Buffy, Joel, Kevin and Carly, among others. Things are going well.

Carly later tells me that she needs to talk to me. Not a positive tone. I’ve fucked up somewhere, but she made me wait until the 3rd quarter to find out.

I would later learn that she was approached by Jamie. Their exchange hinted that what I had said to Jamie days earlier was that I took little blame for Jamie’s verbal harassment, when in fact, I thought it was the very opposite. Carly and I spoke on it and we were able to iron things out.

Cut to: same conversation. Jamie, Lizzy and their friend Angela walk by us.

Lizzy says to me: “Can I talk to you?”
Chris: “Sure.”
Lizzy (later): “Why are you being such a dick?!” (Laughs)
Chris: “Excuse me?”
Lizzy (still laughing): “Talk to Jamie …”

What follows is basically a one-sided attack at yours truly. Occasionlly, Jamie would have to breathe and she would have either Lizzy or Angela chime in.

She really let me have it. In addition to accusing me of lying to her originally, she tried to pull out of me the reasons why I have been acting the way I have. I did my best to avoid her questions, but I finally started to tell her. I can’t give direct quotes, but what I remember saying was that I felt that what she had told me last spring about “considering me a true friend, blah blah blah” was all bullshit. <– Once again, not a direct quote. She attempted to give excuses as to why things were the way they were. My position was that things have been stewing too long for me, and they finally blew up. This continued back and forth for some time, including her “implied” jealousy about me liking Lizzy and how she had moved on.

What upset me the most about this was not the fight itself, I knew that was going to come eventually. But that she had chosen to do this in such a public forum, and in front of someone that I liked. I felt that to be very, very unfair of her.

It started to go in circles, and I felt very uncomfortable. I felt like I was going to cry at any moment, and I had to get out of there. Abruptly, I said that I needed to leave, and Jamie, in a suddenly hostile voice, said: “Bye.”

I left as fast as I could.

We won the game, but, as has been common with Jamie, I lost.