I』d never been in a situation filled with conflict till I faced the
event when I had to do a so-called favor for my classmate in high
school. The mission was to tell a boy from the neighboring school that
she really liked him very much. And I was given this mission just
because I knew him better due to our being in the same cram school and
thus often having the chance to see each other. Seeing my classmate in
such a confused situation, I finally agreed and started to make contact
with the boy after classes and on our way to school during afternoon
time.
It
seemed that we were becoming quite good friends after a few weeks, so I
was considering when to tell him about my classmate and her fondness for
him. Yet before I could tell him the fact, the thing that I feared most
suddenly happened.
It
was a Monday afternoon when we were sitting in a coffee shop in the
underground shopping mall below the train station of Taipei. Suddenly
he asked me whether I wanted to become his girlfriend. I was very
shocked and realized that he misunderstood the whole event. At this
moment I had no other choice but tell him the fact that I was helping my
friend and hoped that he could understand it. Yet when I finished my
story, he was silent for a while. Then he started to roar: 「Do you mean
that you』re playing with my feelings? How can you do this to me?」 And
all the people in the whole coffee shop turned to stare at us, which
made me feel quite ashamed because he was roaring in a loud voice so
that everybody in the room could understand what we were talking about.
The
next day, when I entered the classroom, I felt a strange atmosphere. It
was hard to describe the feeling, and my friend came toward me and said:
「You』re a liar. You』re cheating me.」 It took me a while to realize
that she was talking about that event that happened in the coffee shop
yesterday. She told me that she』d never forgive me for it, and since
then she never spoke to me again. I became a good friend with that boy
after this event; we still communicate with each other very often after
that. As to my classmate, I don』t know if I should ask for her
forgiveness; this is really the first time for me to face such an
unfortunate event.