Idlman of Bale
Essay title: Idlman of Bale
The tale begins with a young boy daydreaming in the middle of his professor’s English lectures. Nearing the end of the school day his classmates begin to talk amongst themselves when one of them suddenly exclaims that her friend, who is the Tomboy our “focus” is interested in, is available again. The boy looks in the general direction of the “single” briefly as the school bell tolls. Things appear to be going normal enough until the boy makes a troubling discovery. Over the course of the last two weeks, since discovering her romantic availability, he has steadily been falling in love with the popular Tomboy and doesn’t know how he is going to deal with this development.
After a few months of trying to ignore the fact that his feelings for this girl have changed from complete indifference to romantic love, with all its fantastic symptoms, the boy makes his first of many mistakes that will inevitably lead to his downfall. The foolish boy chooses to confide in one of his more trusted friends, the Apath. Partly just to see what he would think about this twist of fate, but mostly to see if this friend possibly understood this situation and could possibly offer some sage advice or even some friendly insight. The Apath, in his later obvious uselessness, offered no form of constructive closure. Therefore the boy felt the need to pass his ordeal on to less trusted acquaintances, hoping to find some sound advice, until almost half a dozen people knew of his crippling secret crush. The boy was unwilling to act on the advice of his comrades and readily defended his position to admire from a far and hope the interest would fade.
Due to his subconscious grasp onto any glimpse of color on the grey canvas of his life, his feelings didn’t go away, much to his dismay. The boy continued to harbor these feelings for the ever oblivious Tomboy until one day he went too far into his quest to learn more about the girl. This quest was to provide some understanding on what it was about her that triggered these emotions in him, though it only led to abysmal failure. One day the boy, taking the advice of the Reprobate, came up with a plan to approach the girl without suspect. His wealth provided the Idleman with a distorted perception of value. Being in such taste as to buy the girl an, unbeknownst to him, extravagant gift would eventually bring about the beginning of the end for this innocent love. The girl, out of concern, asked why her friend would so suddenly get her such a present without reason. He merely tried to cover up his folly by saying it was just something he had and wished to get rid of, and he thought she might have more use for it then he would. Just when the lie had appeared to have worked, everything went awry. He was cross-examined the following morning by the Tomboy and one of her friends. The