what a day

Barely after concluding the previous post, someone called out my name. Looking up, it was a familiar face, a friend from orientation week.
In her usual socially awkward fashion, she got a drink and sat somewhere else. So I texted her to come over. Oh, we were at one-north Starbucks.

What happened next was quite a slew of random conversations, just catching up. Commenting that my hair was long, I showed her a picture of what it was before I had it cut. Something else in the picture caught her eye.

It was this particular other girl. She asked if I know her. Sure I do, she's from my neighbourhood and she is someone I... know too much about perhaps. So I started recounting about how I knew her. The girl in the picture was a girl my ex often complained to me about, a girl who "flirted" constantly with her former boyfriend while they were still together. Now my friend seated across the table had her eyebrows raised.

She asked me for the name of the guy. At my reply, her eyes widened and she was becoming teary. She looked really shocked.

"why, you're dating him now are you?" I asked teasingly.

but it wasn't funny because her best friend is kinda seeing him now.
And so she asked me about what I know about that guy, and I told her as much I knew for sure.

I hope her best friend is able to walk away from this one. He's really dangerous... well he was.
A part of me wonders if he's turned into a new leaf. I can't possibly know for sure.
A part of me wonders if today is the very reason why I had to go through what I did, if this conversation and my knowledge of this person was meant to save this poor ignorant friend from trouble.

I cannot tell. I wish my friend all the best with her best friend. I reminded her to pray. I sent her off. Fingers crossed.