The Story I Could Never Tell

Changing Tides

Jose talked to me all the time in class, and I began to be annoyed. After all my goal was to get to Ron. I tried to talk to Jose less and less, this is when things started to change. Jose started talking about how I would be his but he's mom wouldn't ever let him date a "gringa". These conversations were awkward, I hadn't ever considered dating him. An the way he worded us dating, like I wouldn't have a choice bothered me. I usually just laughed this off.
   Jose seemed to have the idea that I liked him, so I began to only talk about Ron to him. I would tell him how wonderful I thought Ron was, and how nice he was to me. The topic of Ron seemed to always set him off, he'd tell me all this lies about what an awful person Ron was. This angry side to Jose was one I had not seem before and frankly I didn't like it.
    I had an Instagram no one from school besides a few close friends knew about, I'd always just post my art and other anime related things on it. One day I logged into my account to see several comments left by him saying "Hi", "Hello", and "answer me!!". I deleted the comments and blocked him. The next day,forgetting about the ordeal I walked into my art class to be confronted by Jose, he walked up to me, grabbed my arm and with a face of pure anger told me when he told me hello I better reply. I was shocked by his response but took comfort in knowing that in one week we'd be changing electives, and he would no longer be in my class.