She created a monster

After I got back from my first trip at Sea in early 2001, A was seeing a girl from our school (used to be with us in school - same year) - seemed a perfect romance, well to them anyway - to us it seemed he was being manipulated in every possible manner - to this day I am sure that it's good that it never worked out for them - he - I don't know what he thinks? Anyway getting back to then and them - he was the perfect doormat, she a proper Diva - on the choreo team of her college (a claim to fame in those days - I was in college for a very few days so all my knowledge of "considered cool" was from friends)and so on - it was going along quite well for them and they seemed "so much in love" that marriage and kids had already been discussed - in fact when I had told him, "You two will never get married" he was so confident that he said, "I'll bet anything!" so the bet was, "You will name your first born, no matter boy or girl, after me" very rumpelstiltskin I know but he agreed. Of course quite a few of the stories that will follow happened in the interim but just to finish this one I fast forward 3 years - college over A's girlfriend decides to move out of town for post graduation, I was unfortunate enough to be the "freind" present on "the last day" and was witness to much crying and teary farewells which I duly clicked with a camera handed to me with explicit instructions "finish the role by evening". So there I was clicking away furiously - look here - another candid shot - great pose - et all, after the 37th click I was a bit worried but then said, "this might be longer role with 42 pictures?!" and everyone was relieved so I clicked 5 more in quick succession and then another and then yet another till we were convinced that I f...d up the role load - the evening had ended and the girl needed to get back home to pack - she was ofcourse furious at having no memories of the "last day" to which I quipped, "You have no pictures but you have the memories, right?" this one sentence started the trend of girl friends of all my friends hating me - to this day the jinx remains unbroken - and the publishing of this page will not break it I am sure. Anyway we went to the phtographer around the corner, "who loaded this role - idiot loaded it all wrong - nothing can be done!" so I not only had a girl who hated me for ruining her day but also a crest fallen friend, to make ammends I bought another role, got it loaded proffessionally, drove my friend back to his girlfriends house at night, finished the whole role in one hour and had it developed and delivered the next day - this appeased her to an extent but still, "the memories are lost" Sigh!! Anyway we move on, well actually she moved on very soon after moving out and I saw Devdas first hand in real life replete with drunken stupors, heavy smoking, bottle smashing and self harm (as dramatic as your imagination can get and then some) - from these ashes emerged a monster - A was a transformed man - a once shy nice guy became a womaniser in search of his victim at all times - he preyed on unsuspecting young women on the internet, through friends and generally all over - to be honest he managed to get some when we couldn't - so we labelled him a monster - but in reality it was great for him - he moved on and on and on - I think on one of the drink nights we counted 8 different women in one calendar year - impressive by any standards and definitely better for him than what he was in - but till this day after a few beers one of us is liable to say, "she created a monster" - that monster has today settled down and is quite happy with life and love and I do wish him all the very best in life. I just keep reminding him of his promise, let's just hope that the first born is not a girl.