Solving Dustin

Chapter 2: Irritatingly Constant

I have known Dustin for as long as I have been alive. We grew up together. Annoyingly enough he has been apart of almost every milestone in my life as well. That tends to happen when you are neighbors and your parents are friends.

I mean seriously, almost all the important things he has been there to make it all the more memorable and interesting. Im being sarcastic if you hadn't caught on.

My first day of school he was there. My first birthday he was there. My first kiss IT WAS HIM. We were like 8 years old and it was more of a "thank you for the flower crown you made for me" kind of kiss. But sadly it still counted. Believe me! I have tried to tell myself that it didn't count but apparently my subconscious thinks that it does. Because every time someone asks me when my first kiss was, his stupid face pops in my head.

I've accepted it.

To be honest I didn't always despise him. We were neighbors after all. We hung out together and our parent planned play dates. I used to play in his tree house everyday after school. I even had my own section for my stuff in there. We used to play Secret Agent versus Aliens in our backyards. Don't Judge. It was after the first Men In Black movie came out. We rock-paper-scissored on who got to be Will Smith, but neither of us wanted to be the alien. So we roped our dads into chasing us while wearing alien masks as we shot them with water guns. Those were the fun times before everything proverbially went up in flames.

We were great up until 8th grade then everything changed. I go away for a summer and come back and suddenly he would freeze at the site of me and run away with this terrified look on his face. What! Did I grow a second head or something. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what his problem was. I mean if he hated me that much avoiding me at every corner he didn't have to be that excessive about it. Then he had the audacity to not even tell me what his problem was. After about a year of fretting about it I decided to ignore him as well. This is when we fell out of whatever we were before.

He did try to reconcile during our Freshman year of high school, but I was still miffed and way too stubborn to forgive him. One day, purely out of curiosity I asked him why he ignored me that year, but he shut down and wouldn't tell me.

It didn't help that we ran in the same circles and had the same group of friends. Couldn't be helped really. Our high school was not that large and we were both taking AP classes. Both of us did athletics, I was in tennis and he was in the swim team. We both spent way too much time in the library and had the same hangout spot, a adorable little coffee shop by the university. Technically I found the spot first but I didn't own it so I couldn't stop him from showing up there whenever he wanted. Also my best friend was dating one of his friend, which didn't help me in anyway.

My best friend is one of the greatest people I know. Taller that me. Who isn't. Isabelle Fisher is 5'7" and soft spoken. She has kept me out of trouble for the past 11 years. She is ridiculously pretty. Long curly blonde hair and big green eyes. We are very different, not just in looks but personality as well. I'm a hyperactive ball of energy, she is quiet and reserved. I can't flirt to save my life, she is terrifyingly good. We are inseparable and she keeps me sane. Sadly, she is friends with Dustin. How it happened I don't know, but they are really good friends.

As high school went on he found every opportunity to rile me up. I swear he probably spent at least half his time thinking of ways to annoy me. I remember he used to block my car by parking his infront of mine. Then I had to go next door and yell at him to move it. There was another time he changed the combination to my locker and I had to go get a new combination that took them 3 days to change. Since I had my chemistry textbook in there I had to share with my lab partner. Guess who that was. YUP Dustin. At least he was a tolerable lab partner. Neither one of us wanted to fail that class, so we behaved.

My junior year, I nearly stabbed him with a fork. I was having a really nice Monday morning, and we all know how rare those are, when I heard a strange beeping noise in my room. At the time I didn't think anything of it, but later that night when I went to bed I heard it again. I swear I spent the whole night looking for that stupid buzzer. It happened every night for 2 days. When i went to class Dustin would have his stupid ass smirk on his face and I knew he was the one that did it. So the third day I finally snapped and threatened him with a fork. Mind you that probably wasn't the most terrifying weapon but I couldn't think straight from the lack of sleep. He came over that day and took his stupid buzzer, it was hidden inside one of my books in the bookshelf. I took me a week to get back into my regular sleep cycle. Lets just say I looked like a hot mess that week. So I justified my anger and continues disliking him all through high school and well..... now.

He was even there when I went on my 1st date. I mean he couldn't even give me that! I fume just thinking about it. My date, whose name shall never be spoken of again, had just come to pick me up and there Dustin was with his arms crossed glaring at my date like he had committed a major crime.

Asking me all these questions like, "Clara, where are going?" and "what time are you getting home?" Pouting when I rolled my eyes at him and glaring daggers at my date when he held my hand. Like it mattered to him who I dated. It doesn't! Which is why I told him to mind his own damn business and to leave me and my date alone. Honestly the nerve of that guy!

He used to constantly and to this day continues to pop up in my life at every turn.

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Authors Note: Hey guys, hope you like chapter 2.

Update: Sadly my time is spent mostly surviving my Accounting class but I will try to update it every week or the latest two weeks.

Edited by: Isuri Soysa

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