Me Story
I had a certain attraction to faeries
Hieronymous Biscuit asked me to write a story and I wasn't sure if he was joking or not, but... I've got something interesting if you wanna hear it.
It was about four years ago. I was surfing around the internet absent-mindedly, just killing time really. I happened upon a "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" message board. Having loved the show as a youngster, I battled off a barrage of pop-up ads and started posting.
It didn't take long for every other member of the board to begin hating me. Maybe it was because they were jealous of my extensive knowledge of the show, or maybe it was because my user name was "Prince Adams" and I was declaring that I was He-Man in real life, but they were all probably just jerks. Anyway, not wanting to rant on about useless details, this is where I met my girlfriend. Her user name was "Little Fairy" and, I had a certain attraction to faeries.
We talked for a while (and by a while I mean two years and $700 worth of phone bills) and decided to meet. Now, I haven't lost my mind from watching too many cartoons, the reason I told you about the message board was because when we met in real life, I was supposed to say "By the Power of Grayskull!"
Now, flash forward to the airport. I had written down what her gate was but my sweaty hands had betrayed me (CURSE THEM!) and I had smeared the number. So, using usual Antwan logic, I decided to wander around and look for a anybody who slightly resembled her in any way. Just as I was considering having her paged, I spotted her. Our first face-to-face conversation went something like this:
"By the Power of Grayskull!"
"...hi"
Six minutes of uncomfortable silence.
The moment was so romantic that you could taste the animal attraction.
"uhh... Ta?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you wanna go somewhere and do something?"
"Sure, you're the boss."
Now, we'd never been the most romantic couple, but we had waited about 660 days for this moment, and we had literally counted off the days. Well, I knew she liked to mess with me sometimes, so I went ahead and took her out for our first date.
I took her to a movie and tried to hold her hand. Denied.
I took her out to dinner and she ate a steak. She was a vegetarian.
I took her to a local park just as it was getting dark. She kept looking at her watch.
Up to this moment, we had exchanged less than fifty words. All she did was continue to stare at her watch and smile at me occasionally.
"Is something wrong, Ta?"
"No."
"You wanna sit down over there?"
"If that's what you want."
So we sat down. She pushed her watch and it glowed green in the dark. She spoke without provocation for the first time since we had met.
"Six hours."
"What?"
"You've had me for six hours."
Well, that was cute wasn't it? She had been counting the hours that we were together. Ta had never been very talkative anyway. I guess everything was okay after all. She looked up at me and my heart sort of fluttered.
"You're a strange boy."
"Me know."
I muttered back to her in baby talk. It had been a rocky start... I bet she was just jet-lagged.
"Most guys don't keep me for more than an hour."
...what...
"Most guys?"
"Yeah, so, not to be ungrateful because you're really nice, but are we going to fuck soon?"
"What...?"
"That's normally what you do with a woman of my profession"
...
"What's your last name?"
"Marcy."
My girlfriend's name was Ta Gorsod.
"Just because you took me out, doesn't mean you get a discount. It's still $20 and I don't provide condoms."
"But... but, this isn't possible... I said By the Power of Grayskull..."
"Yeah, I do 'tards too."
The moral of the story: If you're meeting someone that you've never seen except through poor-quality pictures and have a secret code-phrase worked out - MAKE SURE THAT BOTH OF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.
Also, He-Man is gay.