[ Part 1 ] Romantic Fiction To Reality - My GF Made Me Compete Against Another Guy To Win Her Heart

hey arnie here i'm a freshman at college and i guess you could call me a nerd i mean i'm fascinated by computers and decky stuff and i'm majoring in computer science i'm just a regular guy who would much rather spend my free time on my computer than out partying i don't really care about my appearance as i see it close or close so a slouchy t-shirt and jeans will do me i also suck at socializing i clam up and just end up talking nonsense i guess that's why i usually stick to being in my own computer guy bubble well at least i did until i met camilla i'd never had a girlfriend before which given my awkwardness was no great surprise my first meeting with camilla well it didn't go all that well i was running late for my study group in the library so i was rushing up the stairs and i pumped straight into camilla who was reading a book while walking down the stairs i watched on horrified as she fell down the stairs she fractured her ankle and i felt so guilty and blame myself for this after that i tried being the good guy and helping her out i offered to carry her bag to class but she huffed out could you please stay away from me i don't need your help okay then she glared at me another time i bumped into camillo while she was sitting on the grass and passionately reading twilight so i bought her a signed copy of the second book in the series she stuck her nose up at me told me that book was so last decade then limped off i guess she was still mad at me for the accident but then the next time i saw her she was reading the book i gave her she giggled then said to me okay this is actually a really neat gift thanks after that we started talking more and i even helped her out with her studying i never met a girl like camilla before she was so gentle girly and pretty but like my thing was computers her thing was books she adored them and she always had her head in a book i admired this about her a girl who reads as many books as she did must have a beautiful soul i found myself falling for her but being the awkward guy i am i didn't think i stood a chance then one time after i'd finished helping her study she leaned over and kissed me trust me no one was as shocked about this as me not long after we became an official couple and at first everything was great however camilla gradually became more and more addicted to her reading she loved romance fiction from the classics such as pride and prejudice to more modern affairs such as the fault in our stars she loved them all there were days she got so caught up in these fictional worlds that she read from night till early next morning and she even missed college because she was too tired to go we went to the library a lot to study together well i studied she usually stared dreamily out the window lost in whatever fictional world was currently occupying her mind and when i'd called her name she never answered after she finished each book she went into this depressive state it's like she couldn't deal with reality after she'd finished reading the notebook she moaned that i was enhancing and attentive like noah i tried to ignore her but then she finished reading the second book in the to all the boys i've loved before series and shouted at me that peter not only pampers his girlfriend but he also plays sports and has a six-pack she told me i should start working out and stop eating so much chocolate okay so her comment did hurt i always sucked at sports and was self-conscious about my lanky friend so i started going to the gym to please camilla she seemed happy about this and mentioned something about being proud of having a boyfriend who was good at both studying and sports just like the handsome guys in romantic fiction but honestly i didn't like the gym all that much my friend was on the basketball team so i told him i wanted to join yeah i hated it but camilla thought it was very impressive during my first game she stood at the side of the cord and shouted baby i love you come on i know you can do it honey omg talk about cringeworthy i knew she was very proud seeing me playing basketball so it made me full of energy and i just longed for scoring i was so nervous that i accidentally scored in the wrong net suddenly she disappointedly shouted oh no edward would never have embarrassed me like that and that's when all of my teammates turned to me and laughed frantically which made me really embarrassed i threw the ball against the playground and walked to her angrily and asked edward who's edward then i stormed off leaving her there watching me in shock i was so sick of being compared with some handsome guy in her fictional world and sporty things were not an exception i couldn't take it anymore the more i participated in sporty things the more i realized how much i hated them i pined for computer algorithms i wasn't a jock no i was the nerd who got a thrill from staying up all night writing code that weekend probably she wanted to make it up so she asked me to go to the cinema to see some romance film i was a bit cooled off so i agreed i showed up outside her place to pick her up and my phone beeped it was camilla telling me she'd be reading all day now she was too tired to go besides she'd reach the climax of her book and it was too compelling to put down i was furious i stormed back to my place it felt like camilla preferred these make-believe guys to me her actual boyfriend the next morning i was still pretty mad when i explained to camilla how i felt she started crying then she told me it was my fault for not caring about her last night as she said she was tired she wanted a hunk to bring her food pamper her and look after her i couldn't believe what she was saying just because i wasn't as dashing as some fictional character guy didn't mean i didn't look after her how dare she even say otherwise i know this was crazy but the problem is i really do love camilla so i came to the conclusion that if she wanted some perfect guy i could be him right that evening after a long day with loads of studying to do i was about to take a bath and camilla texted me bae i want to eat spaghetti but it's raining outside so even though i was tired i rushed up to buy it for her and brought it to her place you should have seen her face she was extremely happy seeing her happy made my heart melt everything was good but i ended up being sick the next day camilla came to my place to look after me she made me soup and helped me eat it i ended up falling asleep and when i woke up she'd gone i didn't think that much of this at the time but then three days later she still hadn't responded to any of my calls or messages finally she answered my call and told me the reason why she was mad turns out she imagined herself as the main character in the romantic fiction book she just read in that story when the handsome guy got sick and his lover came to visit him that's when she was feeding him he kissed her so she expected me to do the same only i fell asleep instead i didn't know whether to laugh or cry this was crazy how could she expect me to be romantic when i was trying my hardest not to throw up we arranged to meet at a cafe there i told her how i felt i just can't do this anymore i can't be some sporty handsome sword-fighting charmer i'm just a regular geeky me except me for me or it's over she apologized and began crying she told me she just got so carried away with the scenarios in her books and she'd try her hardest to be a better girlfriend a week passed by and camilla seemed a little better then one time when we were outside the college she pointed over at this sophomore guy and told me she was going to allow him to pursue her because in most romantic fiction books the main female character usually had two guys competing for if i could beat the zack guy off then it proves i love her if not it must mean i never loved her in the first place what i stared at her open mouth she'd definitely gone too far this time i told camilla i wasn't playing her dumb games anymore then i stormed off the next day i saw her talking to that zack guy whatever he was saying to her was making her laugh and she was twirling her hair around her finger and giggling great not only was this guy good looking but he was charming too he resembled a gallant hero well i was more like the villain the problem is i still love camilla how can i get her to realize that romance fiction fever is just that fiction even though i might not be some handsome hero who leaves flower petal trails all over the house i'm still a good guy who just wants to look after her

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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 16 2020