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Dara PratiUNTITLED...After a while I just started ignoring his emails... TThis is a story about what my sister refers to as "poetic justice".I'll begin with telling you about him. His name is Dustin. He was my first serious boyfriend. I was in love with him, although I can never be sure why. I mean, we had some wonderful memories. We danced in the kitchen. We took hikes in the woods by the park. He burned me cd's of the songs that reminded him of me. We just sat on the couch and cuddled. I just wish I could remember those more instead of the bad memories... The bad ones would not exclude fighting... about everything imaginable. We fought so much it's a wonder we ever had any time for fun left over. Yet, as much as we argued, I never once thought about breaking it off. And then there was him having sex with my then-best friend. Denying it. Then admitting it, and saying it would never happen ever again. Guess what? It did. I was crushed. Crushed. It's the only word that seems fitting. Like being stomped on until you've shattered into a million pieces. I can't count how many times he would email me and I would angrily (and sometimes tearfully) send a reply, my mind set to ultra-bitch-death-ray mode.  This was over a year ago. After a while, I just started ignoring his emails and he stopped sending them.He works at Starbucks now; the one right by my house that I always go to. There's absolutely nothing wrong with working there. I imagine it's an excellent job. And while I feel a sad twinge in my gut when he hands me my venti caramel frappuccino and seems too scared to even look at me; you have to admit, there is a sort of irony in the fact that the boy who stomped all over my heart now makes my coffee. Yeah. I really love happy endings. Dara Prati is 16 and lives in Texas. "Hopefully not for ever," she says. "When I was five I wanted to be an actress. When I was 12 I wanted to be a writer. Now my mother thinks I have talent as a make-up artist. I say, 'Why choose...?'" This is her first story for Un-Made-Up The photo is by Sophie Nicol whose blog is Cheese And Pickle. 11:17 PM - 30/7/2006 - post comment
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