Okay. So saying 'revenge and anger' isn't exactly the perfect category and may be slightly misleading, but you'll get the idea, I suppose. I'd like to apologize in advance for how long this is. My best friend Lisee and I have had a mutual friend (Bruce) for a very long time. He's always made horrible choices in women and Lisee and I always worry about him... first, a few years ago, it was a senior named Katie who was embarassed to be dating a younger guy she only accepted him because she was sick of another guy asking her out and she knew saying yes to Bruce would put a stop to it. Next it was Lindsay who quite frankly hadn't been to fond of him and broke up with him with the worst possible timing...the list goes on. This winter, Lisee threw a winter ball in her house. This was a formal event where girls wore gowns and guys wore tuxes and we ate too many cheese cubes and we sat around and talked and a few danced...all in all, a fun event, except for one thing: Tess. Tess was the girl who was clingy, annoying, an pretended to be modest although she was quite obviously pompus. She was always fishing for compliments and pretending to be incredibly independant while she was really quite the follower. Lisee and I had just never really liked her, but as she was bound to find out she hadn't been invited if she hadn't been, she was asked to the party. Tess had plenty of friends that were the same type of person as her but simply insisted on sticking to us like (surprise surprise) glue. At this point in time, Lisee and I had both had a little thing for bruce and had agreed that if he felt the same way for the other, we'd bow out gracefully. This never changed our conversations or general attitudes toward Bruce, we still had interesting conversations, we made jokes and we all laughed while Tess followed us around and laughed at everything we laughed at, even if she didn't get it. We really were having a good time with Bruce, playing talking games or silly childish (yet fun) things like prank calling people on his cell phone. Later in the night when he'd left, Lisee and I discussed our affections for him when Tess chimed in 'Oh yeah...me too'. The next morning, I told Bruce, assuming he'd think it was strange and amusing like we did. Not so. Bruce, always being a bit dramatic when it came to crushes (he once told us that on a scale of 1-10, he liked Katie 352), he claimed that he'd not been able to sleep for thinking about Tess. When I told Elise about this, we were both decidedly uncomfortable and told Bruce so. After trying to kindly tell Bruce about how Tess had not let her last boyfriend dump her and had forced him to carry it out for more than 6 months longer than he'd wanted to, Bruce told us that if we didn't want it to happen, he would try to let nothing happen, but he couldn't garauntee anything. This didn't help our moods much. Seeing sombody we liked going after somebody like Tess made us want to crawl under the covers and sleep for a year. A week or two later, Lisee was introduced to Bruce's friend Canada (his real name is Ryan)who was trying to get over a hopeless crush. He convinced himself that he liked Lisee, which to our delight, made Bruce incredibly uncomfortable. Lisee and I then hatched a plan: Project The Canadians Are Coming. Lisee was going to pretend to like Canada to put Bruce through what he'd put us through. Mean? Check. Vengeful? Check. Ok. We're heartless. But it was to perfect an opportunity to just let pass by. Bruce took the bait immediately and just like we'd wanted: he asked Elise not to date Canada to which she'd reply 'well, I don't know. He's just so nice. I kinda like him and I just don't know what to do.' He figured us out at one point and spoke to me. The conversation whent something like this: 'Hannah, I know what you're doing.' 'What do you mean?' 'This is an exact parallel to the Tess thing and you know it.' 'Well huh. I guess it is kinda similar. That's strange.' 'Hannah. You're doing this on purpose.' 'Now why would we do a thing like that?' 'I don't know.' 'Well that helps. Stop being paranoid, Brucie.' 'I know what you're doing.' 'You said that.' Needless to say, when Canada actually got serious about asking Lisee out, she backed out. In our opinions, though, Project the Canadiens Are Coming was the perfect revenge.