Okay, first things first--I'll tell you about the parties involved.
ME: (duh) A misunderstood flirt who wants ERIC to stop taunting her and just leave her alone in general.
ERIC: A 24 year old college drop out planning to return this fall. He refuses to believe that I have a boyfriend (basically because I DON'T), and believes that if I am involved with anyone, it is BOO, because we tease each other costantly and hang out alot, and find much enjoyment together in pissing off ERIC.
BOO: A 16 year old junior from a local high school. The youngest member of the company, but by far one of the most entertaining. He has disliked ERIC since they met in May and enjoys busting on ERIC more than he probably should.
LISA: My best friend in Tent, a junior at SMS.
PUP: An innocent victim.
This is our story.
In an final drastic effort to get Eric to leave me alone and pester some other poor soul, I bought a pretty but plain cubic zirconia ring at Wal-Mart for $20. Lisa and I had decided that the only way to get a man to leave you alone was to "get engaged" to someone that they were scared of.
I wore the ring on my wedding finger and propositioned Boo. the conversation went as follows:
So we picked the wedding party: Lisa was my maid of honor, Boo's best friend Adam was to be his best man. Lisa and I decided to have a bridal shower with the women who were in on our scam, while the boys planned a bachelor party.
I borrowed bride magazines from Dixie, a girl in the box office who was getting married very soon. Boo and I even got his parents in on the joke, mainly because they spent alot of time at the tent and would likely hear about it, and because since Boo's under age, if the wedding were to truthfully go down, We would have had to have their consent.
Accidentally not telling Pup the truth was an accident. He was skeptical at first, but when he confronted Boo about it, Boo replied, "I dunno. It just happened. You can kick my ass now or later." That convinced Pup that we were really getting married, and I think sorta scared the shit out of him.
en we finally told Pup the truth, he was really pissed and threatened to tell Eric, but his love for a good joke and his own despise of Eric kept us in the clear.
Lisa and I bought bridal shower invitations and all the girls were let in on the secret and invited. We picked out my wedding dress, which Cynthia, the queen of the costume shop, agreed to "make" for us.
Everyone in the company was notified, except for Eric and his two friends. Suddenly "the engagement" was the talk of the tent and everyone was constantly joking about it. Many, though they knew we weren't really going through with it, still believed that there was "something" going on with Boo and I, though in reality we had never even been on a date together, let alone anything else. We just both really enjoyed getting Eric.
We planned on ending the hoax with a HUGE breakup fight about two weeks into the plan when word somehow got around to Eric that our engagement was a phony. He was pretty pissed, and so was Boo when he found out we hadd to end the scam early, so they wouldn't get a bachelor party.
By the way, I still have the bridal shower invitations if anyone needs any. They're pretty cute, with Precious Moments kids on them.
That's our scam. There were lots of interesting moments during our brief but happy "relationship". Keep looking for the Tent Quotes, a magazine dedicated to funny, perverted, and totally random comments from this summer.
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