And she went and lay down on the grass over there, without so much as another word to me because she was singleminded and her focus was on lying down in the cool grass and she didn't feel the need to talk to me any longer than she had. As for me of course, I liked her and would have loved to have talked to her longer and even for reasons that struck the both of us deeper than the occasional hello, how are you? But even if she didn't have a boyfriend, she wouldn't give me a second look, not that I'd ever find the nerve to ask her out of course even if she was.
So why was I still staring at her, aside from the fact that she was bright, attractive, sexy and was in the midst of a rewarding career, which was something that I would have to wait until ten years from now to be able say the same thing of myself.
And that was a long time into my life to be able to say that of myself.
But it could always be worse, I could have been five years older and not even have a job that was exactly what I wanted it to be, along with the option of gaining superpowers, which I had a good chance of realizing by going to Earth 5. That would be sad and make me worthy of being mocked.
Which was of course, high on the list things that I didn't want to happen