The Aforementioned Eric Rant

So, I mentioned earlier that I would be ranting at some point about Eric and that whole situation. So let's start at the very very beginning.

We all really got to know Eric our first year at camp Horizon. He seemed like a great guy, he was funny, in a kind of a mean way, but funny as long as it wasn't directed at you, y'know. So, it went the same way that the rest of the relationship with the guys went, we were all really close, Eric still made inapropriate jokes at people, but not to us for the most part. As time went on he decided to pick on Krystal, he made fun of her more and more. She put up with this like a good sport and most of the other guys made fun of her a bit to, I think at one point it did go to far, and it felt like she was bearing the brunt of all of the guys teasing. This was about the time when Eric and Audrey started having their make-out sessions. It didn't take more than a few weeks for everyone to know what was going on, but Eric still never tried to form anything more concrete with her, even though Audrey kept hoping for it. Finally, that ended and things started to get weird between Audrey and Eric and he stopped coming around so much anymore. Everytime he came to hang out he'd make cutting remarks to Audrey that really hurt her, because Audrey still cared about him and hoped that maybe he would talk to her, but that never happened. Then over the summer, our second year at camp, Audrey met another boy who she thought she might like, he was sweet and pretty cute and had come up from Florida, but the boys didn't like him, because they still in some part considered Audrey to be connected to Eric in some way. They ostracized him and made things basically miserable for Audrey by not speaking to her, meanwhile this boy tried to play Krystal and Audrey against eachother, which eventually backfired with neither of them liking him like that and now we all joke about him, but still, it put tension into the group and that was basically the splitting apart of what it had been. Eric kept hanging out with us less and less and when he did come his remarks became more and more cutting towards everyone. In about September of last year, Audrey met another boy, named Jack, they made out once or twice during our drunken debauchery in September, and eventually, Jack asked her to be his girlfriend, this made Audrey SO happy, and Jack treated her (and still does) like a queen. But this kind of made it come into Eric's mind that he should come and hang out with us on occasion. When he showed up he was totally inappropriate, touching her in ways that a friend wouldn't touch, emphasizing subtle claims of ownership, doing the things that boys do when they want to mark territory that they've want to say "I've been there, whatever you're doing, I've already done it and there's nothing you can do about it" Jack definitely did not appreciate it at all. Jack felt threatened, no one had told him about the thing between Audrey and Eric and he wasn't sure he could deal with that. Now everytime we hang out with Eric it seems that he is purposefully aggravating Jack. Jack has a bit problem with Eric (more than a little bit of a problem actually) because he doesn't think that Eric is respectful of women in general. Now there may be some more stuff that has gone on there that I don't know about. Now a few days ago Eric went on a 'walk in the park' with one of Jack's best friends recent ex-girlfriends (something that no one's really sure is over yet) and I don't know if that means you know, just a walk in the park, or if it means something else entirely (knowing Eric something else entirely is more likely) and I don't think Jack's friend knows, but I know some people know who aren't to happy about it, and these people don't have any problem beating the shit out of Eric, or any great love of Audrey ( not that they don't like her) that will stop them from beating the shit out of him...and, I personally, don't think I care to stop them. When Eric is around I just don't feel comfortable, I feel like anytime I open my mouth it's an invitation to be attacked by him. So...I'm just trying to help everyone sort out how they feel about it. Jack would love it if Audrey would severe all ties with him. But Audrey feels some kind of obligation to stay friends with him and hasn't so far every brought herself to talk to him about the issues...

so that's it...I wish I had an un-biased source that I could go to and explain this all to, just so they could look at it with an unprejudiced eye and tell me if what I shoudl really tell people...gah...drama