Pop Quiz #9 (dfw Style)

[MrOctopi]

This is my attempt to write a pop quiz, David Foster Wallace style (love that guy)

Anyways, feedback would be great, kthanks

PS If you do end up reading all of this I would like you to answer the questions at the bottom, because honestly, I don't know the answers to them myself.

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This guy meets this girl in high school. And the guy thinks the girl is quite extraordinary, as well as almost all of the rest of the male population at their school. But that's beside the point. The point is, is that this guy thinks this girl is quite wonderful, etc. etc.

Also, this guy thinks some pretty mooshy thoughts about this chick. He sort of considers himself a romantic in the first place, but meeting this girl completely changes things, so to speak. But the girl on the other hand, she doesn't exactly return the same sentiment, if you know how these things go. She doesn't think he's a bad guy or anything, and on several occasions she notes his many accomplishments, but she never really thinks those mooshy thoughts about him. So that's important to keep in mind. But so, the guy sort of wants to be with this girl, but the girl never really wants to be with him (as mentioned above.) Anyhow, this becomes very stressful for the guy see, because he is always dancing this never-ending Tango of unshared feelings. And for the girl, it's less stressful. Not to say it isn't a stress, just not this huge, big stress.

So one night after the guy has expressed his pure enjoyment of the girl with the girl, and the girl saying exactly how she feels, the guy sort of has this mental breakdown. He doesn't really let anybody know about it, per se, but it still happened, and it was still quite terrifying.

So then the guy says to himself, "She's way too good for me, better start divin'." And then so he does. He tells the girl that he never wants to see her again, right. And the girl doesn't know what to think of this, because it's outta nowhere. She gets pretty bummed about it, because she sorta liked him, not a whole lot though, but it still hurts nontheless. Meanwhile, the guy starts doing stuff with all sorts of grody chicks. Lowest of the low.

But it's not his fault he feels so self-destructive. He blames it all on the girl. Doing stuff with all these chicks is sort of a mean to an end. So he feels pretty at peace about himself, except for the fact that he'll never be with the one he really wants to be with.

Now, with all these depressing experiences with these grody chicks (especially the incident with the 'golden girl', so to speak), the guy starts to write depressing stuff. In lyric form. And so one day he stops by the local pawn shop, and buys this beat-up electric six string with an amp and starts to play around with it. And he gets sort of good at it. He gets so good at it in fact, that he forms a band. A band that awfully-depressed kids can relate to, because the band's songs are quite depressing.

Anyways, so the guy is in this semi-successful punk rock band, and by this time he's dropped out of high school (even though he was on the highschool's football team, which was projected to take state his senior year). And he's traveled to LA a couple of times to record some records, so now he's got a little taste of the high life. The grody chicks that he did stuff with morph into totally hot babes. Which is really awesome, because if he had never risen to this type of fame, this would be impossible. Even so, he feels an emptiness inside of him. Exactly the kind that he should feel, the same kind that is portrayed on TV and in movies all the time. Which makes it a little bit corny, but he still feels it, so it really can't be that corny.

So him and his band of misfits start to get more and more popular. The girl notices this. She doesn't like their music much, but at least it's tolerable. She hears kids at school talking about it alot. And secretly she knows all the songs are about her, but she never really lets anybody know this, because if she did she would just seem pompous and self-important, and almost like a coat-tailer. Also, because she rejected the only semi-successful guy to leave their ordinary town (except for that one radio host, what was his name again?), which is sort of ironic because if she had never rejected him he never would have reached total semi-successful fame. Get it?

But so now, he's actually living in LA with a whole bunch of other semi-successful punk rock frontmen, and it's totally rad. Living around all these guys though, he starts to be influenced by them. Because these guys don't exactly have the purest of hearts. Like, they do drugs. A lot. So therefore, it's kind of inevitable that the high-school-age punk-rock-god starts doing drugs. A lot. But he doesn't necessarily have any objections to it, as you might think a kid from an ordinary city would have...

So punk-rockstar kid is really just having a great time, and is sort of forgetting about the good old girl that he used to have feelings for, the girl that inspired his popular, awfully-depressing music that he writes. And you think this might have an effect on his music writing skills, since she was the muse, right? Wrong. Instead, he starts to write songs about his new, totally radicalized version of life, about all the drugs and parties and women. So nothing really changes for him.

Meanwhile, the girl is getting older back at home. She's even graduated high school, and has started college at their little college-town college. And things are going pretty good for her. She can't complain really. All the guys are still crazy for her (although she is not crazy for any of them in particular) and she's doing well in school, and is holding a good job at the local department store. She still keeps tabs on the guy though. She buys all of his records and posters and t-shirts, but she never really wears the t-shirts because she doesn't want anyone to know that she is keeping tabs on him...

Until one day when she gets home from a long day at the department store, and she checks the online blog of the guy's band, that reads:

"The guy has OD'ed on some kind of pain medication, and is currently hospitalized. We would all like you to pray for him, even if you are atheist, pray to nature or science gosh dang it, because we couldn't do drugs or party without him, it just wouldn't feel right."--drummerboy94 (the band's sort of horrendous drummer)

And as soon as she gets done reading this (which doesn't take very long), she drives to the nearest airport and books the next flight for LA, with only her cellphone in hand. Which if you think about it is really quite scary. I mean, she doesn't even know where he lives, or which hospital he's in. But she does it anyway. And when she gets there she asks several people if they know which hospital he's in, and apparently everybody knows, so it's no trouble really. So she rents a car and drives over to his hospital, and finds his room (by lying of course, that she was a cousin or something) and she gets to his room, and she pushes past a whole bunch of stupid cow-like media people, and there he is, lying in his bed. And she still recognizes him, which is quite astounding, because he looks quite different, with tatoos and piercings (her favorite is the tattoo of Max Bemis on his right arm). And he recognizes her, and he's completely surprised, so his heart-rate elevates, and then the nurse tells everybody to get out (she sort of screams it actually) and everybody leaves, except for her, because she refuses to, and the guy says it's all right, and so they sit and talk for a while and it's really quite nice...

Question A: Does she love him?

Question B (optional): Does he love her? How much can he love her? He left when they were in freaking high school and said that he never wanted to see her again. Evaluate...

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