You Can't

After the first few calls to cancel my mind reverted to that one time when I was a kid when that one girl I knew had a party and invited the entire school and only her best friend showed. That might make me happier. I don't like big groups of people. But how would I explain that I had said there would more of us.

First to show up were a bunch of boys. I had invited one and he said he'd bring friends. I assumed that meant girls. It didn't. Second to show up was another boy who brought a friend--another boy again. Third? Boy. Ah, man!
So there we were...me and the boys.

Should I say anything I thought.

Should I say that I'm really not a boy crazy lunatic--that I really invited just as many girls but the boys all came with more boys and the girls all called and canceled?

Can you say that and not sound like it's just some extravagant cover up?






It turns out you can't.