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The Fakeship

Zola and Dayton

By BB DeePublished 5 years ago 2 min read
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If you haven’t figured it out already, a “Fakeship” is basically a way of describing a “fake friendship.” Definition? In the most simplistic way, it’s basically a friend who never really was a friend. The ones who use and exploit you or your resources for their own benefit. Someone who might be nice to you one day, and low and behold, they’ll be gossiping about you the next. Those of you who have experienced these, will have definitely been in a Fakeship.

What happens when that person is supposed to be your other half? I don’t necessarily mean romantically... but you both are so close to the point that you get gut feelings when one of you are not okay. Yes, it can get that deep.

Here’s a short story.

{Zola and Dayton have been friends for years now. They know the ins and outs about each other and are very close. Zola sadly lost a relative, and it affected her like it would anyone else. Dayton promised he’d come to visit her before she went out for the funeral. Yet it was just another empty promise, like the other six empty promises of coming to visit her. And on each of those six days empty promises, only two of them were close to a valid excuse. The rest, she never even received a text or a call to say he would not be coming. She never bothered... but this time, Zola reached her limit.

“How can he do this?” she kept saying as she thought to herself about all the times he needed her. Driving out at 2 AM to see him, because he needed help, dropping everything at work, because he was grieving and needed someone, working continuously to help finish his college work that hadn’t been submitted on time. The list is endless. She’s been back from her home town for weeks, yet not one call or message from Dayton to see how she’s doing. Sad huh?

Her only concern is... if she backs out now, she loses her backbone; her support. Not that she’s been getting any support at all. She shouldn’t need to express her feelings towards Dayton. It should be clear enough, this has happened multiple times. Could he really be that blind and not see that he’s not being the true friend he should be?}

Guys Fakeships happen all the time. The problem is, we always see it from an outside perspective. If we were standing in that person’s shoes there and then, I’m sure if we could all share our internal feelings, we’d know how Zola truly feels. It’s easy to sympathise. But how many of us can truly empathise?

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BB Dee

I go with life and everything that comes with it.

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