Awkward Desperate People-- Part One-- Running for Love

There are those who are desperate for love. Women become desperate. Men are almost always desperate. What drives someone to become so dependant upon someone else to make them feel happy? Perhaps the answer to that question could best be found in a group therapy session; however, we’ll just show you one scenario of a desperate young man. You can decide where the problem starts and how best to treat it.

Its pouring rain outside and a young man runs down the street and knocks on the door of an apartment. A young woman opens the door.

Boy: (breathing heavy) I- I…
Girl: What are you doing its pouring rain outside?
Boy: I ran all the way to get here.
Girl (in disbelief): You ran all the way to get here? Don’t you live like three miles away?
Boy: I’d run five hundred miles…if I lived five hundred miles away, all so that I could be with you.
Girl: What? You’re all out of breath- I don’t think I heard you right.
Boy: You are my breath, my every breath. I’ve decided, I’m in love with you. That’s why I ran here. You can be into me now too, its ok, I’ve made up my mind. You don’t have to fret over whether we’ll get back together, I’m here now.
Girl: We went out once and we’ve hung out a few times, you cant be in love with me.
Boy (confused): Its raining though…
Girl: Yeah its raining so?...
Boy: Can’t you feel that. (Takes girl by the arm and has her hand out in the rain).
Girl: Nope…just feeling wet.
Boy: Just wet? Not even a little bit? Can’t you let the love reign?...Get it, reign as in be a ruler of your heart and rain as if the droplets of water…(desperation) If rain drops were passion then you can see that I’m drenched in it…(staring into her eyes passionately) drenched in it all for you.
Girl: You’re kinda creeping me out.
Boy: Come on out into the rain with me. You’re not even wet…(frustrated). I ran in the rain for you. I don’t like to run and I don’t like the rain but I thought you’d be kissing me by now. You said in the last group setting we were in that you love the rain. Here I am in the rain, why won’t you just be with me now? What was that a tease?
Girl: I said that as I was holding my boyfriends hand. He’s inside here. (turns inside and says) Hey you wanna come over here.
Boyfriend: What’s going on?
Boy (excited): Perfect. Ok, maybe this will still work out. (to himself) Here comes my fight scene…(To the boyfriend) Um, I don’t know how to put this but she doesn’t like you anymore.
Girl: What?
Boyfriend: huh?
Boy: She’s in love with me. We fell for each other a little while back. She wanted me but I wasn’t sure if I wanted her cuz I thought she was being prideful but it was my prejudice that got in the way. Anyway its all resolved now. You better just leave. Go ahead pick up the broken pieces of your heart and get out of here.
Boyfriend: Is he for real?
Girl: Do you honestly think I’d end up with this guy?
Boy: Dude, I ran in the rain for this girl, what have you done?
Boyfriend: Well we were kind of kissing before you showed up, so I don’t know you tell me.
Boy (heartbroken): You would do that to me?…How could you?
Girl: We never had anything. We went on one date.
Boy: I’ll forgive you for that, this one time I will forgive you because I love you.
Boyfriend: Hey why don’t you just go home?
Boy: Home is where the heart is and my heart is in her, so you see, I cant go.
Girl: I don’t love you, I don’t even hardly know you. We went out once and we’ll never go out again.
Boy: (defeated) You’re just going to toss it all away, just like that…the heart beating the rain, the running, the last second run of passion- nothing?(walking away) You never knew my heart…home is where the heart is but apparently you’re home is a cheep motel rented out for one night stands and young boys…and by the way, it’s a good thing we didn’t work out because the rain sucks!