School Fight Brought Up
On March 21, 2007, during clinic, Ranko suddenly asked, "Are we friends?" and I said I wasn’t sure. Others wondered what happened, and the whole thing beginning from the fight last year had to be brought up again. He then told them that he couldn’t talk to me because Danny made that false assumption and hit him, and that it has been the main thing. Ranko also said that even staff members told him not to talk to me. Then he mentioned that there was another girl Danny falsely assumed was interested in him, because he went out to dinner with her once. Danny also falsely assumed the same thing for a married woman from our class because she sat next to Ranko several times. The married woman had dropped out of the school a few weeks after the fight because of change in career plans.
Ranko said that Danny also had interest in the girl he had dinner with the same time he had interest in me. I asked why he continued to talk to the dinner girl and not me, and he said that was because she talked to him and apologized. I reminded him that I had apologized soon after the fight and talked to him, too. I had also talked to Ranko in class while this girl had dinner with him. It would make more sense if Danny assumed that she had interest in Ranko. Actually, a few weeks after the fight, Ranko had mentioned that it had also been about the dinner girl, and when I informed the dinner girl about it, she asked, "What did it have to do with me?" When I asked Danny about it the previous year, he also asked, "What do they have to do with it?"
Once again, Ranko tried to blame the fight on me by saying that Danny called and asked me out, but I was always too busy and never told him I wasn’t interested. I said that I had no idea, and he had the nerve to say, "You should have figured it out." Well, regular friends call and hang out. Danny never said that it was a date, so I never knew he had interest in me. Ranko was making me sound irresponsible and stupid. He and others said that I had no right to be mad at him, and that he should have been mad at me for causing Danny to hit him, then getting mad at them.
I also said that I thought not talking to me was only going to be a few weeks, but after 2 quarters, he was still treating me like that. His excuse was that Danny was still at the school, but now he’s graduating, and Danny had dropped out. Well, Danny immediately dropped all his classes when he saw him Spring 2006, and Ranko knew that, but still didn’t talk to me. Since then, Danny had been at the extension campus because he was too irresponsible to face the consequences.
I took the chance to point out that Ranko had also given me arrogant looks and influenced others into rejecting me. He and others said that he never mentioned the fight to anyone else. I explained that it didn’t necessary have to be mentioning the fight, but just the clique influence. They said that it never happened.
A few times after the fight, when I talked to Danny, he had also said that there were a few other issues between them, and when he tried to settle it that night, Ranko kept walking off. I brought this up, too, and Ranko said that he tried to settle it, too, and never walked off.
I see many discrepancies from what people say about the fight. I suspect that there is still information they didn’t provide, and some of it was twisted. Even if the reason was just Danny’s interest and false assumptions, Ranko’s treatment towards me was overdo.
Fight or no fight, it doesn’t change the fact that those 2 guys are like Sid and John of my college days. Ranko is like Sid, and Danny is like John. That day, Ranko kept asking, "Are we friends?" and I said yes just to make him stop bothering me. That was what Sid would ask whenever problems happened. Besides, there were some people who have complained about Ranko in general, and I already know that he doesn’t know when to quit joking so that people can’t believe many things he says. He and Sid both like to boast. Danny and John are both irresponsible, controlling, and unable to sort out priorities. The whole thing is pretty much Sid and John all over again, so I do not wish to talk to Danny and Ranko. If they talk to me at school, it’s fine, but I don’t want anything to do with them, especially after what they put me through.