Gosh, it’s almost Monday. Will @azzo1 get that number back? I have decided to share little snippets of #YY’sCrushesAndHorrors to ring in the Spirit of Love. YOU CAN’T BEAT LOVE. Scroll down…

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    I remember this one night, Cool Guy and I were sitting in the living room of my rented house, which I shared with a bunch of people.

    Cool guy and I were still in the Getting to Know You phase, something that was confusing me a lot. I didn’t know what was going on. Why did he keep coming to see me? Why did he never take it a notch higher? And…what did I feel about it? I was confused. On the one hand, I wanted us to remain friends. On the other hand, I had a terrific crush on him…the pounding heart was a fixture every time he came around, and it would slow down to a comfortable thump, thump, thump, as the night progressed. He had this knack of putting me at ease, which all the other guys in my life hadn’t. All the other guys in my life made it clear from the start that they didn’t want to be friends. And it used to freak me out. I was never ready for commitment, it terrified me. Until Cool Guy.

    So there I was, resenting him, and thinking, Dude, what are we doing here? What do you want from me? But I didn’t ask him aloud, because I didn’t know what I wanted from him. But the more I saw him the more I liked him.

    So, back to the night I mentioned above.

    He said, leaning forward, with a crease between his brows – he does that all the time, it makes him look mean and hot – “I’ve got something to say to you.”

    “What?”

    “Are you ready? It’s – big.”

    I stared at him. I was terrified. Was he going to confess to me? Oh, no.

    He took a deep breath.

    “Here goes…”

    A pause.

    Then: “To be, or not to be,
    That is the question.”

    He leaned back, and grinned, looking really proud of himself.

    “Is that what you were wanting to tell me?”

    “Yeah,” he grinned. “Shakespeare.”

    “Hamlet,” I said, numb. I wasn’t expecting Shakespeare. I was expecting a I Love You declaration.

    He shrugged. “Whatever.” He looked at me. “I surprised you, didn’t I?” And I was. He was a jock – you know, the hot athlete type, who walked around in sports wear all day on campus…the first time I met him in the library he had a tennis racquet in his hand. One of the reasons I crushed on him was that he was a jock. And here he was, in my shabby living room, quoting Hamlet.

    He narrowed his eyes and looked at me, “I bet you thought I would never know that line…”

    I didn’t know what to say.

    No confession that night. But I was charmed. Again. My heart melted.

    Later on, much later, I discovered that that was the ONLY line of Shakespeare that he knew. “Fooled you, didn’t I? he would laugh. “I was desperate to impress you.” And he did, that fraud.

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      This. Is. SO CUTE!!!

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      YY!!!! You made me so soft today from all the cute stories and I just want to thank you. Also, you two are truly the cutest.

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      That was his confession. Or, rather, to do or not to do. I guess he did! Cute story. Maybe if my college jock boyfriend quoted me hamlet, I’d be married to a different person. Lol. He did watch 3 volumes of Pride and Prejudice with me—the Colin Firth Darcy.

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        I doubt my jock knows what Pride and Prejudice is. I was tramping through Yorkshire and I said, Let’s go to the moors. Emily Bronte based Wuthering Heights on it. He said, with that frown, “Who?” “Never mind,” I sighed. Then we were in Edinburgh, and he said, “Want to join me see St. Andrews?” “Er, nope,” I said, “I’d rather go shopping.” Off he went, by himself to St. Andrews. Happily. He watched every episode of Fringe, and spent hours expounding the Black Hole Theory to me – snore – until I got glassy-eyed. He wants to drag me to Copenhagen?? I’m not sure, and see some steps where Albert Einstein exchanged profound conversations with a bunch of scholars…sigh…and he’s so excited about the Tokyo Olympics coming up in Summer…he wants to go there IN SUMMER…can I just shop instead?

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          Haha. Now I want to go to Copenhagen! Not a fan of Sports, but am a fan of Einstein. I think it’s the hair. 😉👌

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          Lol. I couldn’t even! So my jock would memorize statistics of baseball players and meticulously tell me one by one every time each would go up to bat and why one team would probably win and go through managers and coaches and owners on and on. Like 3 hours of my life staring at him and wishing I brought a book. We didn’t have enough in common for me to stick it out. We had a couple science courses together, how we met. It’s funny talking to him now, because he has 2 athletic daughters and a very unathletic son who takes after his wife. He always wanted a boy he could play baseball with and take to games, but his son couldn’t even be remotely interested. I’ve told my husband about all my relationships. This guy and his family even visited us this past year. I made a good choice. But goodness me if that guy still doesn’t have a six pack of abs in his 40’s!

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            Omg. I can’t imagine doing that, being friends with my ex. I don’t even want to know what he looks like now – I imagine him bald with bad teeth. It makes me feel better.

            Jocks – even aging ones – look good physically. My son came home from school one day and said, “Mum, my friends say Dad is the coolest dad in the whole school, hands down. He’s the best-looking dad.” Err. Ok. Kid told his dad over dinner. Dad shrugged.

            I watched VIP last week, and Hot Dad was telling me about this friend he knew who was having an affair with a married woman at a sports club – my cool guy goes there to play tennis when he’s free – he loves sports – and after he had done telling me, I snarled, “THE WIFE IS ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW!!!!” He stared at me. Stunned. “DON’T YOU DARE GO AND HAVE AN AFFAIR YOU HEAR!” You should have seen his face. Gobsmacked.

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      “Later on, much later, I discovered that that was the ONLY line of Shakespeare that he knew” 😂😂😂 I can’t.

      This should hold me until @azzo1 writes Episode 2. Thanx 😂

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        He didn’t even know it was from Hamlet. *STARES* He just said, Shakespeare. As though it was enough. I wonder if he knows what Shakespeare’s first name is. Hm.

        We were in an alley in York, I think, and there was a sign, really old, and I yelled, Hey, it’s a drawing of Burns, snap a pic. He blinked. Then we went to Manchester, and he said, Let’s go to Old Trafford. My turn to blink.

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          Probably got that line off Google for famous quotes. At least he got the right writer. Gotta give point for effort.

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            He must have memorised it. *STARES* @ally-le I seriously doubt my jock was trying to project a deeper meaning when he quoted those lines. I thought about it for a second after reading your post, and – Nah. Definitely no subtlety intended. I doubt – are you ready for it – that he even knew what it meant.

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          I think it’s best to leave off Shakespeare’s first name. Your story would have taken a different turn if he said, “Bill”.

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      You have the best real stories YY. First your grandmother’s epic migrant story, and now your suave Cool Guy. You sound like a really cool person yourself. 😊

      (So is this another reason you had a soft spot for forehead-eloquent Baek-Kyung from EXTRAORDINARY YOU, who also happened to play tennis?)?

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        Baek kyung’s height and physique, yes, minus the jerk qualities. And my Cool Guy is way better looking…lol. You know something, I am drawn to all those cold, cool guys in Korean dramas because of my Cool Guy. I realise I have a TYPE, and they are all kind of like him. I used to feel how different we were – I was kind of shy and I loved books and reading, hated exercise, didn’t even know how to swing a tennis racquet…and he was my opposite – he loved the outdoors, he loved sports, he climbed mountains for crying out loud – broke his arm on a mountain top, and had to be rescued by helicopter!! when he was a freshman. So we were totally different. I was a Humanities student, he was into Physics, he was a smart jock, lol, and he played so many games and was into so many sports he couldn’t get into Medicine because he screwed up his A Levels…he needed straight As to get into Medicine, so he had to opt for Engineering, and he got in. All the hot guys were in the Engineering Faculty, btw, lol. So if he had got into Medicine, I would never have met him.

        I didn’t understand why he liked me. I still don’t. Lol.
        Take my best friend. She was pretty, vivacious, bold and exciting. I was like a pale wilting flower beside her. In the early days, I would sit and glumly watch them flirt, and think, This is hard. I was jealous of my best friend, and when I watched him smiling and laughing at her, with her, I used to hurt. When we were in a group, you’d never guess something was going on between the two of us, but he would always, always lag behind when everyone was going off, and he would always, always come to me and give me that look, like@azzo1 describes it – like I’m special, and I would get so confused. And when he was with me, there wasn’t any of that noisy boisterous back and forth bantering, it was always quiet moments with us, and I would think sometimes, He must find me so boring and dull compared to my best friend…but the way he looked at me, the way he talked to me was so – different, there was a softness there, that was only for me.

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          😭😭😍😍😍

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          That’s ❤, YY. And also because you two are the main characters. Just like our discussions on why nice SL never get the guy/girl, Fate just won’t have it any other way.

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            We are opposites and yet we fit. Strange, isn’t it? So when I come across articles saying, you and your soulmate have things in common, and are alike in so many ways, I want to say, Hell, no. That’s not true. Me and my jock have very little in common at all, but we have these moments when people just stare at us – like he’s telling an awful joke at a family dinner, and everybody is looking pained, and there I am, laughing my head off because it’s so awful, and he’s grinning and his sister is saying, That is not even funny, why are you laughing? And I’m laughing even more, and he’s laughing, too. We are the Weird Couple.

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            @yyishere You guys sounds cute and fun and perfect for each other! 🙂

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          Stop! I’m starting to regret not talking to this guy I knew (see above). He just asked to talk, but he was…a student in my class *gasp* (I teach adults, I feel I should clarify that!) I think we could have been friends, but my professional standards wouldn’t let me talk with students outside of class hours. He took it very graciously when I explained, but I kind of wish we’d met in a different situation.

          I guess this is a drama special @13infamyss, not a full-length drama, sorry! Have I failed as a kdrama heroine? 🤭

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            Regrets. Life is full of those. One of these days, I’ll write about my First Love. Yeah, there’s always a First Love. My jock was not my first love. My first love was another guy that I liked for yearsssss, from school to uni. It’s a sad, sweet story, and I think of him, sometimes. My jock doesn’t know about him. It hurts too much to talk about him. No one in my family knows, except my close friends from school.

            So, maybe you could try to contact him again…But it may not work out, real life is different when you miss out on the One Who Could Have Been through your own fault…talking about myself here…

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            *pats and hugs @wishfultoki* there, there fellow beanie. Time and circumstances might be impossible right now, but time skips work wonder that way. I would agree that he needed to wait until this professional relationship you have with him is over until a new one starts. Life is episodic that way 😉

            And we, over here on db, do not care of the drama length. It’s not about quantity, but quality. 😉

            Hwaiting WishfulToki! 👊👊

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          Oh, dear heart. That last line should be in a novel—your novel. I swear my heart skipped a beat.

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          Aww. All quiet, shy girls feel this way. As if someone bold and lively is better than them even if it’s just their personality. Your character description (lol this is a drama now) i mean personality and likes are so much like me, moreover i studied humanities too. This gives me hope, that I have a chance to be liked, now waiting for a good guy to show up and like me first 😂

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          Kyaaaaa YY! So much cute!

          Anyways I beg to differ about hot guys in engineering, i was an engineering major and my course mates weren’t hot. You got a special hot one! 😆

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      Ooooh… Mr. 😎 guy turns out to be Mr. Cute guy! Why does he remind me of Dong Man from Fight My Way?

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        Never watched it. Does he put on this arrogant I-know-it-all face when he doesn’t know what the hell is going on? My jock does that. He pretends to know it all. And the worst thing is he gets away with it. People think he knows it all. When he doesn’t know a thing at all. He subsides into silence. People think he’s thinking smart things. But I know better. He’s not thinking at all. He just makes you think he is. He’s a fraud.

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          I don’t think DM did that. He is more of an earnest jock type. You should watch Fight My Way to judge for yourself. 😁

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      Tagging @lugirl131415 @oppafangirl @ndlessjoie @cloggie Cheers, girls! *CHINKS GLASSES* Thank you, @azzo1 for bringing romance back to our lives. And what is this MeetCute thingy? Please tag me if you have future meetups. I’m a jaded, hurt soul after watching VIP. That bastard scumbag, I’m going to rip him apart and stickynote his ass and shove that black umbrella which he shielded his ho with up his lying, cheating ass. Do you know what was the most painful scene of the drama? The mistress coming in to work on a rainy morning with a dripping umbrella, the wife staring at the umbrella and recognising it – the umbrella was THEIR umbrella – husband and wife’s SHARED umbrella, left in their SUV. And now the mistress has it. I wanted to do something violent when I watched that scene.

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      I am squeeing, as soon as I woke up this morning. This was too cute. Plus I have a hard time believing that you’d be a quiet, shy girl because you have an excellent sense of humor and good enough presence on DB.

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        I was the youngest child at home, very sheltered, and studied at an all-girls’ school. I didn’t mix with boys until I was 16. I was awkward and tongue-tied around boys, and the more they talked to me, the more uncomfortable I felt. I only started becoming at ease with them when I was 17, when I switched to a co-ed school. I think that was when I started changing, and became more secure with everything, myself and my feelings, and more vocal. The teenage me was definitely an awkward, shy girl. The present me is a brash, loud tornado.

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          That change is great. I don’t see my personality changing any time soon but it was actually being in a co ed school that made me shy and unable to talk with men/boys except for work.

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