Sara

This girl might have ended a friendship. If she was not the catalyst then she came in at the wrong time. Sara was introduced to me through Danny a long long time ago. Danny was still dating a girl named Kristen at the time, and Sara was the sister of one of Danny's friends, Jacob.

She was cute. She also seemed to like me, or maybe Danny mentioned she liked me. Either way, she was someone I was pursuing at that time. I obtained her phone number with relative ease. It was something I was starting to get good at.

Time moved on and we did thing together, but never alone. I started to think I was getting nowhere with this girl when Danny and Roberto stopped by my job and mentioned a trip they were planning. Hollywood Horror Nights in Orlando was the venue.  They were going to get a Hotel room and we were all going to go and drink our faces off before we went to the park. Sounded like a fun time to me. So I went.

At the Hotel I noticed Sara and Roberto showing interest with each other, and I withdrew from the hunt. I might have never had a chance with Sara, who knows. All I knew is that I cherished my friendship with Roberto and I did not want a girl to get in the way. He seemed to get the idea, because soon afterwards the two started dating. I was happy for him. I figured at least one of us got the girl. there was no dirty play involved. I simply did not want to start a rift, so I told him about it and told him to go for it, that I was over her. Maybe I wasn't, but it did not matter at that point. I had no shot.

After those two were together, things started to go downhill in terms of Roberto and the group. Events started to cascade into huge problems and lies turned friends into untrustworthy individuals. It got to the point where all of us started to question each other's allegiance and overall commitment as friends. Who is to say what was the cause of all this, but all I know is that before Sara, Roberto was still one of the guys.

As of today it has been almost seven years since I have seen or heard from him. One of my closest friends, gone. Perhaps I was too naive to see him for what he truly was. That's what everyone else always tells me. Maybe they are right.