The Trifecta writing challenge is to write a creative response of no fewer than 33 and no more than 333 words, using a one-word prompt.
This week’s word is:
GRASP (verb):
3: to lay hold of with the mind: comprehend
Gees Louise
Louise looked at me with fiery eyes and this time stressed the point she was making.
‘I am not interested in being with you in any way shape or form.
You are not my type; you are persisting with something that is never going to happen.
Why waste your time. Get on with your life. I don’t want to part of it.’
I had heard it all before and so once again felt the fool for asking her out in the first place.
You build yourself up to ask, you grasp whatever courage is left from the last time you stepped forward, only to find a similar result.
I had discovered the women I was interested in were in no way interested in me.
The joke amongst my friends was that I did have women knocking on my door, trouble was they were on the inside trying to get out.
I had engaged in conversation with Louise a number of times at work and so it seemed a logical progression to ask her out.
We went to a bar where we enjoyed a pleasant evening. However it was on the way home that she put the kibosh on any future dates.
She was not interested; she had had too many bad experiences with men.
To put it bluntly I had balls and therefore that alone put me into the vermin category.
As she so succinctly stated, ‘What part of no don’t you understand!’
Our evening ended with her jumping out of my car and heading up her garden path, disappearing into her unit leaving me wondering how I got myself into a mess like this.
Morpethroad 
Poor narrator! You have conveyed his dismay very well!
Thank you Gabriella, hope you have a good day.
Oh dear, she’s not a ball liker then? Sorry couldn’t help myself 😀 x
No, hated all ball sports, was useless to ever consider asking her to the cricket.
hysterics! 😀 perhaps she is too much of a ball-breaker anyhow…
Don’t get me started.(Said with grin on face) Ball beakers are deadly, leg breakers are playable.
lol – I am chuckling away like made over here.
I always tended to be interested in men who were either not interested in me, were bad for me, or both. Bleah.
Sorry to hear that, but I know what you mean. Thanks for the comment.
Messed up when a previous relationship takes over ones future relationships.
Thanks RoSy, yes our baggage can bring us undone alright.
Better not to pursue this one, I think! Too much baggage. 🙂 Thanks for linking up. Don’t forget to come back and vote at the end of the challenge.
Thanks for your comment. Yes a truck load of baggage more like.
I felt bad for the narrator. Good to keep a distance from women like this. For some reason, she reminded me of a girl I knew in high school. She was a complete man-hater and wrote a really mean rant in my yearbook about them. I always thought it was a bit young to be so bitter…now I wonder if she ever got married 🙂
Thanks Janna, yes the narrator has a lot to deal with and one hopes she does eventually let go her guilt. the girl you knew maybe is happily engaged in a same sex relationship. Then again you never know.
There has to be The One out there somewhere. The thing to do is just to keep trying.
Thank you Draug for the vote of confidence.