But I'm not here to talk about the word news, but rather the relevance of the word in the recent days. Basically, my ol' pal, Randy's, mom came into Wal-Mart the other day. He and I were friends in school, and he basically followed me around, and learned most of his computer knowledge from me, got into DBZ because of me, got into drawing anime because of me, got into LOTR because of me, and learned of the Squaresoft games (Final Fantasy series and Chrono series) from me. My group of friends that I ate lunch with didn't like him. Basically no one I was friends with liked him, except the few people who were already his friends whom I sort of became friends with, mainly when I would go to the library and play Magic: The Gathering with them. During school I sometimes dreaded coming acrossed him in the hall since I really couldn't talk to anyone else since he'd be talking to me. Looking back, though, he was probably closer to me than any of my other friends. Maybe not closer than Matt, but equal. Anyway, my obstacles of getting a girlfriend were girls either not liking me, or not wanting a boyfriend. From what I heard from others, his obstacles were girls not wanting to be seen around him. I know this sounds mean, but that's how it was. After he graduated, he went in the Job Corps and came back after 8 months and tells me he has a girlfriend. That was very surprising to me, but I'm glad for him. He had borrowed my CD with my DBZ music videos on it and I had recently asked for it back. When his mom came into Wal-Mart, I said "hi" to her and she immediately said she forgot it, but had reminded Randy twice to bring it. She said to call him and have him come bring it to me, and that he needs to be interrupted. Well, I did. He was there later on with this girl. I assumed it was his girlfriend he had been telling me about. He introduced her as his girlfriend, but then held up his hand to show me a ring and said, "Well, not JUST girlfriend." O.O Well, what a surprise. And he's what, 18? Now I have yet another good friend who's engaged. I wish him the best, but I can't help but worry if things will go smoothly. I mean, aside from them only knowing each other for 8 months, he lives at home, doesn't have a job, is trying to get a job pushing carts like me, doesn't have a car... I don't think he's ready for this kind of burden.

Anyway, the other news is about one of my other engaged friends: Melissa. You know she's been very less-than-talkative toward me lately, if you read my recent entries. Of course I tried to figure out the reason, coming up with the conclusions that either I've worn out my newness, my week's up and it's another person's turn to be her best friend, she feels uncomfortable around me since she's engaged and maybe I'm being too close for comfort, or she's just depressed for whatever reason, possibly over her younger sister dating her controlling ex-boyfriend. It went to where neither of us would say anything to the other when we passed, as if we were just another person. Last night I finally brought it up to her as I walked her to her truck. Her answer surprised me, but it turns out it's not very different from what a lot of people have had problems with me over: trust. She said how she had told me about her sister dating her ex-boyfriend, and then later she saw me hanging around her sister, so the most likely explanation was that I was relaying the information to her and talking with her about it. She said that in this past week she has suddenly found out that a lot of people she thought were good friends have been betraying her trust, including her fiance (if Melissa got mad at her sister, Julie, then Julie would go to him and he'd calm her down, and then jump on Melissa's back about it). She's been trying to keep things to herself as much as possible now since she doesn't know whom she can trust anymore. I assured her that I was not telling Julie any of the things that Melissa had told me. When I was hanging around Julie, I was merely trying to maybe become friends with her, too, since it would be awkward for me to be around Melissa a lot but not be on good terms with her close sister. It had nothing to do with her love life. I know she wants to believe me, since she would like to know that she can trust any of her friends. She did apologize for giving me the cold shoulder. She just didn't know how to bring it up to me. I hope things go better for her, and I'll be there if she needs me, and I told her that and she thanked me for it. Isn't life great? There are so many unexpected complications and delusions.