Lovers' Creep

Story Sent in by Andrew:

Stephanie held my hand from the beginning of our first date and onwards. It was creepy. I didn't even really know her that well. As we walked she asked me what my favorite love song was and I told her Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones. She looked it up on her phone and played it at max volume as we walked.

"That's a nice song," she told me when it was over. "Here's my fave."

She played Like Someone in Love by Björk. After wanting to rip my ears off for however long the song lasted, she then reached for my free hand with her free hand and attempted to hold that hand as well.

It didn't work out so well and she finally gave up. We walked past a village green that had an old cannon monument to commemorate some battle and she cried, saying, "Why do they have a monument to fighting? I just don't understand people."

At lunch she put her straw in my water (that already had my straw in it) and drank it down. I suppose she thought that a drink with two straws was romantic.

After lunch she told me that there was a bridge out of town where lots of lovers had apparently leaped to their deaths. "Want to go there with me? Now?" she asked, "We can pretend to jump. But not really."

I made some excuse and went on my way. Never spoke to her again.