So you decide to be the “cool” girlfriend...
...and hang out with
your boyfriend and all of his friends. You can be one of the guys too, right?
You show up with pizzas and a 12-pack. Most of the food gets devoured seconds
after it’s placed on the living room table. Your guy says, “Play Mario Kart
with us” and thrusts a wii-mote at you. All the guys look at you with
anticipation and for that split second you are the center of attention. It’s
fabulous.
Ready to seize that moment, you take a seat on the
Doritos-dust covered couch and try not to think about the fact that the hideous
plaid thing was probably garbage picked from a frat house that got condemned by
the CDC. You’re given a hasty tutorial on what the buttons do. The guys deliver
it with such enthusiasm and look super cute but the info only confuses. Still,
you’re committed so you choose Princess Peach and before you know it the race
starts.
Your previously slug-like, couch-potato guy friends are
suddenly filled with life. They spring off the couch, onto their feet,
screaming. They yell at each other, at you, at the pictures flashing across the
screen. You think you might be in last place but nobody seems to notice.
Someone gets a “blue shell” and your boyfriend starts swearing like a
twelve-year-old who finally got to sit in the back of the bus. Four minutes
later, it’s all over. You finished 6th out of 12. Not last! Everyone crashes
onto the couch. You flop down next to your guy. Someone spills beer on you
reaching for a pepperoni that fell to the floor from earlier but you don’t say
anything because right now you’re the cool girlfriend, one of the guys.
The ritual from before is repeated, and repeated, and
repeated.
Two hours of bumping into walls, getting taken out by
bananas, and driving off cliffs. You want to be done, but you’re in it for the
long haul. Surely they’ll get bored of it soon. Before you know it, it’s 3 a.m.
and your thumbs are starting to cramp up. You realize you’ve been sitting in
that same spot for eight hours and you smell like Bud-Light and Doritos and
cheap pizza.
You open up Snapchat and look at all the fun your friends
are having at the club. But quality time with the boys is more fun than that,
right? You turn to your boyfriend. He’s snoring away, using the towel someone
used to clean up the beer spill from earlier as a blanket. Everyone else
lumbers off to bed and you guiltily send an SOS then steal a few Cheetos from a
bag left open on the floor. The friend you called arrives so you give your
sleeping angel a kiss goodbye then leave.
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