Part 2 Shadow’s of a Social World
High school is that time in life where the main thing that matters to a person is their “Social status,” better known as who they are friends with. My name is Aaron. I was one of those people who worried about social status. I wanted to be that popular guy who all the girls were crazy about; however, I was far from.
Throughout high school I wanted to be myself; however that didn’t work very well. I wasn’t into the “popular” clothes or music and I certain wasn’t a partier. I was more of a quiet, creative, and deep person who had fun in my own ways. I preferred writing over drinking, heavy metal over pop, and I rather wear my black jeans and band shirts then wear Tommy Jeans. It was me and me wasn’t what people wanted.
I remember how so many of my fellow students use to laugh at me as I walked down the hall and talk. I had my tight group of friends. You know that small group of people you know you hung out with and understood you for you. Yeah, that was my friends and I. If you asked any of them we were popular within our own “social group.” In my opinion though we were the joke of the school. I tried to break my high school status in my senior year when I heard about a party going on not to far from my house. The rumor was all were invited. So I decided to go and figured it would be a nice change. My friends at the time had told me not to bother they would just make an idiot out of me. I failed to listen to that.
At the party I was hardly spoken to. It was as if I was invisible. One girl though caught my eye. Her name was Allison. She was one of the “popular girls”. You know the one who was the girlfriend of the captain of the football team and thought of as a ditz. Well they were totally wrong about the ditz part. After about an hour of me watching her she finally came to talk to me. She was beautiful and very kind. We spent most of the night talking and I learned we had a lot of the same things in common. She was far from what I had always heard about around school. In the weeks to come we hung out time to time after school at a secret location. We listened to music and talked about random things going on in the world. It was one of the best times of my life, until her boyfriend Rob found out.
One afternoon I was out back behind the school with my friends enjoying lunch; when Rob decided to disturb me. He came up and sat on the bleachers below me. Staring at me he started to tell me how much of a freak I was and how I better stay away from Allison or I would have some serious issues. I explained to him how she talked to me and I wasn’t trying to get into his territory with her but we were just friends. That wasn’t good enough for him and his friends though. They told me how people like me had no right to even exist because I brought no good into this world and would not bring it into society either.
From that moment till graduation three months later Rob did everything he could to make my life hell and prove how much of a freak and rejected I was. Allison and I still spoke on occasions on the phone and met up once and an odd wile to talk about things going on. However, things weren’t the same thanks to Rob. I told her time and again that she should just leave him and not let him control her life but that didn’t work.
Graduation day turned out to be the worse when Rob’s best friend Mike made his speech about how people are different from one another. Not failing to mention, “even the freak Aaron.” Which concluded with the whole class staring at me, or so it felt.
In years to come though I realized something. I would realize that high school didn’t matter for a thing because when you hit the real world things are different. Today was my five year reunion and I realize how much things have changed over time. Rob ended up not going to college at all and proved to be the loser in the end. Allison still the beautiful girl, but escaped from Rob’s life and now entered mine. My friends and I were all successful. I was able to go to my reunion with a smile on my face and a wonderful story to tell about my studying to be a doctor.
Times changed, and I was the social outcast. Yet in the end I was also the one on top who didn’t mess up my life at all. I went through high school being me, and came out still being myself. Nothing changed me and nothing ever will. I am who I am and high school wasn’t worth trying to be who I wasn’t. Remember that next time you walk through the halls and hear things that may not be true; or think something about someone cause you don’t know them
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