When I was in high school, 10th grade to be exact (this comes into play), I took a drama class. There was a pretty, long haired brunette girl with blue eyes, and we were very friendly. And we were also paired up for acting scenes and exercises sometimes. Anyways, as we boys do in our high school and college years, I would tickle just about any girl I had a passing acquaintance with. And I wasn't the only one. Anyways, this girl was no exception, and she was very, very ticklish and to be honest, I thought she was a little flirty about it. Like she would talk about it and tell me about it more than another girl who might just go "eek". she'd elaborate how she couldn't take it, or this part was more ticklish, or whatever....and it would just lead to more pokes and squeezes and flurries and coochie coos, you know what I mean? All very innocent....but....I guess not so innocent!!!
One day, I'm walking in the hallway, and I see her arm-in-arm with her older burnout, left-back senior boyfriend, a bad boy...and a guy who I didn't really know. Not thinking anything of it, as we passed, I said hi to her. That's all. Hi.
I go into where I was going, which was the backstage of the school auditorium. As I get in there, I hear from behind me -in a very polite tone of voice: excuse me, can I talk to you for a second?
I turn around, and there's the guy, and I don't know what this about, so I go....sure, what's up?
He comes over, put his arm around me, leans in, and growls under his breath "you ever tickle my girlfriend, I'll break your arm. Ok?"
I furrow my brow and say, "ok, yeah....but hey man, I didn't mean anything, I didn't even know she was your girlfriend..."
"I'm just telling you!" he said, backing out of the room, as my friend walked in, saw this, rushed over and says, "Hey....what just happened?"
"Nothing", I murmured.
Next time I saw her, she immediately apologized. And I was like, "hey, I had no idea, I was just kidding around, I didn't mean anything by it". And she said, "He saw you say hi to me, asked who you are, and I said, oh, that's a guy from my class....he tickles me all the time", I imagine probably complaining about it in an annoyed tone of voice. So that set him off, and she begged him not to say anything.
But as you can imagine, things were never the same! A few years later, post-high school, when she showed up for an audition for this band I was in....(she was a singer).....I wouldn't even let her sing.
It's been 25 years since.....and I'm almost over it!