Had a bit of a talk with the aforementioned boy yesterday, and things are no clearer than they were before. Except now, instead of being sad, I am clearly annoyed. Frankly, I'm beyond done with hearing "it's complicated" when he can apparently talk to other people about what that complicatedness consists of, and yet he can't do me the courtesy of explaining himself. So now that he's violated one of my most sacred relationship rules-- respect the other person, I really am just pissed off. I suppose it'll make things easier to deal with, being mad instead of sad, but it's too bad that he had to ruin the way I thought of him and become just another jerk. If he ever chooses to explain exactly what the hell was going on here, maybe I'll be able to revise that opinion, but right now it's not looking good.

On the plus side of all of this, something tangentially related to this boy did cause me to get back in touch with my friend EK, and he and I are going to meet for drinks tomorrow and catch up. Excellent silver lining there, cloud!