Even your other friends admitted that your buddies new beanie was stylish, in November. Even when there were some warm days in April, he was still managing to pull it off. However, the temperature this week has climbed past 90 multiple times. Everyone agrees this fashion faux pas has reached the point of intolerable, but no one will talk to him about it.
“I don’t want to bring it up. He loves that hat so much, I would hate for him to choose between it and me,” His mother said when you asked her about it.
“Can you imagine what his hair looks like under that thing? I think he has had it on for months. No wonder he won’t take it off,” said your other friend who likes talking shit behind your back too.
For some reason you seem more concerned than everyone else. You find yourself looking at it instead of his eyes when he is talking. You pace around your house, practicing what you are going to say when you finally confront him, then you chicken out. You even tried sneaking into his room to steal it, but found out that he wore it to bed. Your friend doesn’t seem to mind. The blazing heat can’t change how cool he feels. Sure, it might look ridiculous with his board shorts and sandals, but what if he is onto a new trend, and you are just out of it? “Am I that out of touch?” you ask yourself. You stay up late and look in the mirror wondering what changed in you, and when. You can’t put your finger on the moment you gave up, but you know you did. As you lay awake in bed, you wonder if buying your own beanie can fix the emptiness you now feel where your youthful joy used to be.