Making my way in a foreign land...

So I have some slightly disturbing insight to the touching letter from earlier this week. The student who gave it to me also handed me an addendum, full of even more sappy thank-yous and I-love-you-so-muches. It's still sweet, but now we're bordering a little on the disturbing side. My girlfriend (tee-hee... it feels funny/cool to be saying that...) claims her gaydar is pinging at full tilt around this student, and she's convinced that we'll be running into Krystle at Chances or the like in a decade or so. She's certain that Krystle is experiencing her first crush on a girl, and has identified me as the object of her affections.

At first I thought such an idea was total craziness. But then I considered all the evidence:

• Krystle loves me. I mean, LOVES me. I counted: today she hugged me eleven times.
• She stopped by my classroom after school yesterday and played with my hair for a full hour before going to the gym for the volleyball game.
• (During which time she hugged me at least a dozen times.)
• Once I showed up for the volleyball game last night, she came and sat next to me with her arm through mine for over an hour instead of sitting with her friends.
• She's enraptured with the details of my personal life. She knows I'm seeing somebody (there are flowers on my desk) and wants to know all the sordid details about "him." [I've tried to convince her I don't have a boyfriend, but she's not buying it. Her: "Miss, you got a boyfriend." Me: "No Krystle, I don't." Her: "Of course you do. Who else but your boyfriend would send you flowers? Why won't you tell me about him?" Me: "Krystle, I swear to you I don't have a boyfriend." Her: "Why you lying, Miss? Why won't you tell me about him?" We've been through this song and dance at least 5 times in the last two days. What truly amuses me is that she went up to the giver of said flowers and said, "Miss Flipside has a boyfriend, Miss, and she won't tell me about it..."]

Anyhow, I'm thoroughly digressing. I totally see it know. It's kinda cute, but the proliferation of Krystle-hugs are starting to grate a little on my nerves. They're becoming more and more common...

Oh well. Hopefully, she'll get over me soon enough...