Main Character Moments

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So… I just cat-called a boy into a minor heart attack.

Alright readers! Welcome to NEME’s Main Character Moments section (crowd screams, cries, lifts their babies in joy)! In a nutshell, MCM is a collection of real-life situations that just make me question if I’m living in a romantic comedy (minus the ‘romantic’) or as Y/N in a fan-fiction thriller. I’ve been holding some of these mini stories for years, and for the first edition, we’re time-travelling back to a situation I don’t think I’ll ever forget. I don’t know if that’s in a good way or bad. 😂😂 By the way loves, I gave all my friends codenames in this story and if you can guess what book they’re from, you know ball. 

Hint: Old-school fantasy, super popular and actually worth the hype 😉

Alright guys, all-girls boarding school definitely had its highlights (and a whole lot of stories, don’t worry). Being the oldest year group came with a bunch of new privileges, one of them being a lot more freedom to stay out later. One of my friends, we’ll call her Manon, had gotten her licence and was therefore crowned the group Uber driver.

This, combined with later curfews, meant one thing: if there was a free evening, best believe my friends and I were heading to Sushida, a local sushi/Japanese joint in town. On this particular occasion, one of our girlfriends Yrene couldn’t make it as she was getting ready while waiting for her boyfriend before they all went on a family dinner, so that left Manon, Nehemia and I. Nehemia was a former vegetarian, now pescatarian and if you ask me, on her way to being a full blown carnivore, and was chomping her eel like no man’s business. Manon and I left her to it and started to discuss if we wanted dessert or not. The answer was yes, duh, so Manon decided to drive us up in to Bullock Harbour to have some ice-cream. 

Now guys, let me give you some context so you can fully imagine the scene. A pitch black evening with a couple of streetlights. We’re the only car on the street. We’d only been cruising for a couple of minutes when Paedyn pointed at a pedestrian a bit ahead of us.

“Oh my days, it’s Chaol!” she basically gawked. “I completely forgot that he literally lives around the corner from Bullock. Let’s give him a ride.” What are the chances we see Yrene’s boyfriend while driving past his neighbourhood? Incredibly high. Howeverrrr, it still felt like spotting a boyfriend in the wild; it’s weird when you don’t see them with the person you associate them with, y’know?

Manon stopped the car directly in front of the lone pedestrian. From the passenger seat I grinned maniacally while I rolled down the window creepily sing-songing, “Get in the car Chaol! Get. In. The. Car.” Nehemia was in the backseat with the mechanical windows, so she was just awkwardly twisting it down bit by bit as she and Manon called out Chaol’s name. 

In our defence, we didn’t intend for it to seem as creepy as it did. We were just trying to say, “Hey, what’s up, wanna ride?” In our offence, there was no way someone calling your name in the middle of the night from a random car isn’t going to make you think you’re starring in the spontaneous murder they put at the start of those detective TV shows to set the scene.

Till this day, I cannot forget how wide that guy’s eyes were. Like literal cartoon saucers. Then he started to breathe real fast. Like fearfully. That was about the moment when Nehemia and I stopped calling his name happily, and more in a concerned fashion. It was also the moment when Manon said, “Guys, that’s not Chaol.”

Lo and behold, looking at the guy’s face, it was in fact NOT Chaol, but a random teen who looked like he was about to throw up. The guy looked absolutely petrified. I wish I could say, we apologised and everyone laughed about it and we went to get ice-cream with our new friend afterwards. Ummm no. Instead it was a mess of muttered “my bad, man” and “Nehemia, would you wind up your window??” with some “I am tryinggg!!!” as well as “Flip, I reversed the wrong way.”

The poor boy just kind of stood there frozen, and when Manon eventually got us out of that situation (it probably took a few seconds to minutes but genuinely felt like hours) we all just sat in silence… until we burst out laughing. 😭😭😭 Girlhood.

Yrene was immediately called and filled in, and who was with her and had been for the last half an hour? None other than Chaol. Yep. Genuinely a memory I will never forget. I think almost every girl has been on the other side of this story, some idiot guys cat-calling some rubbish from their car. Having been on the opposite end, I would say the girls handle it much better (less paic attack, more eye-rolls) and I hope that Chaol-lookalike is doing much better 🩷🩷🩷

Ever been in a similar sitch? Please let me know, trust me I don’t wanna be the only one! Or simply just let me know what you guys think of this post. It’s only gonna get better from here!!