Chapter One
There is an episode of the television show House where he is talking to
a woman about the science of the pairing of men and women in relationships.
He talks about how 10s marry 10s, 8s marry 8s, and so on. There is also a few points of give on the woman’s part depending on how much wealth the man has accumulated, his social or political stature and things of the like.
When we look around it’s more or less true. Beautiful people date other beautiful people, average date average and ugly date ugly. Now this is of course on an external level. Everyone has seen ugly people with beautiful personalities and beautiful people with ugly personalities.
Now the thing that never changes is that all men whom I have ever seen always try to date or approach the beautiful women. This is with no regard of what the women themselves are. The only caveat to this is you seldom see ugly men approach beautiful women unless they are in consideration of the give points we spoke of earlier.
Now this fact alone does not make men bad. It may make them shallow but on the flip side women are just as guilty. If the man doesn’t meet or exceed her level of physical perfection or imperfection then they generally don’t give the poor sap who mustered up the courage to talk to her a chance.
So goes the cycle of what has become a mindset of social acceptance for us all. Now when I conceptualized this book I actually tried to approach the beautiful people I was speaking of and was shot down by a good 90% of them because they thought it was an elaborate pick up line I had devised. I guess that’s LA for ya.
But the persistence of men is something to be admired. It seems that no matter how much defeat or humiliation they press on in their quest for that perfect companion, though part of their brain is obviously not working since they keep forgetting that perfection is the joining of two or more imperfections into a perfect union. The outward appearance while nice has nothing to do with the completion of someone or something.
There are six guys that I know and some are the epitome of what I have been speaking about and the others are just the opposite by either choice or circumstance.
Darren, Devlin, Jackson, Marcus, Lucious, and Hubert. On the outward scale they are a 7, 7, 6, 5, 8 and 4 respectively.
Now these scores are solely on the physical aspects of each. 1 being the worst 10 being the best. In an effort to give insight to each of them I’m going to give a brief synopsis of each right now.
Darren is your typical LA guy. Hair with highlights, obsessed that his abs are chiseled in just the right way, convieniently placed tattoos that of course all have a significant meaning that he has rehearsed many times. At 6’1” he isn’t by far unusual in the city of angels, but you could never tell him that. He looks at each night as a conquest, each woman a trophy and his many nights alone utter and complete disappointments that are almost always blamed on the opposite sex because nothing could ever be wrong with him.
Devlin would have been better off living in the Midwest. Where LA is full of the fake and insincere Devlin has been here for 4 years and still gives money to the panhandlers that he knows are probably living a more decent life then he.
Devlin is an enigma to Darren and how the two became friends I will never know but they are. While Darren will be boisterous and charging, Devlin settles his 5’7” frame in a seat somewhere and just sits back and watches everyone. Quite often he’ll laugh internally at the way the men are working the women and watching the women work the men right back usually so well that the guy doesn’t even notice.
Devlin is probably better looking that Darren but he wouldn’t admit to that. To hear him say it “I’m not ugly but not great. I’m just a regular guy.” He doesn’t work out day after day, he eats things he shouldn’t, has more of a gut than he would like to have and yet he still gets to go out with more women than Darren.
Jackson was named after Stonewall Jackson, not the famous General but his grandfather. It was the nickname his grandfather’s teammates gave him as an offensive lineman at USC. He never met his grandfather because he died in Vietnam but he carries the name well. 6’4” and 350 pounds of what feels like iron he has taken up the profession of protecting stars. Not the ones in the night sky but the stars that you see smiling back at you from the checkout lane of your grocery store.
Jackson’s position of protection lets him meet a great deal of women and while he has used it to his advantage before he is generally mixed in with the rest of the ultra chic crowd at the preferred nightspots on the prowl as well. His benefit is that he can usually give someone blocking his way a stare and they move immediately. Makes for much quicker access to his potential turn down.
Marcus is the owner of the security firm that Jackson works for. When he hired Jackson they became quick friends. Marcus is the complete opposite of Jackson, he is thin but strong, 5’6” and has a multitude of scars that cover his body and the right side of his face. That is the only reason that he was given a 5. I have seen pictures of him before “the incident” and he was a strikingly handsome man. He goes out with Jackson on most nights because his friend doesn’t give him the choice but he never approaches a woman. The women though will approach him on the occasion that they know who he is, or are able to recognize that the sparse jewelry that he does wear is worth more than most of them make in 6 months.
Out of the six guys in this tale Lucious is by far the most blessed of them all. He is a great looking guy with piercing blue eyes, dark hair that looks good no matter how it is styled or how long it goes with out a cut, a natural physique that defies logic, extremely intelligent and to top it all off is a down to earth, honest and humble person. He worked with the city in an attempt to help inner city youth and realized that the system was not working so he started a camp of his own and he works with troubled children everyday and spends his off hours usually roaming the streets to make sure those he has worked with before aren’t back on the streets. When he does go out to clubs and such he is constantly approached by women who see he has that “star quality” and want to attach to him before he blows up. They are always disappointed when they find out he runs a ranch for troubled children and would never want anything to do with the world of show business.
When Lucious started thinking about starting his own establishment for the kids he would always talk about it to his best friend Hubert. Hubert was cursed from the beginning just for having the name Hubert but while his looks are below average you would be hard pressed to find a more pure heart in anyone that walks on two legs. He and Lucious were neighbors growing up and have always been friends. They went to school together all the way through college and then began working with troubled youth in the Juvenile Youth Authority system together and when Lucious wanted to start “The Transcendental Home for Children” Hubert surprised him by giving him every penny he had so that they could see a realization to his dream.
Hubert has never had luck with the women of LA and while this has never bothered him he does at times become lonely. He’d never complain about it he would just put on his headphones and open a book. He’d become lost in the world of words and find solace there. Lucious would try to get Hubert out on every occasion that he was going out. He’d lay the seed early in the week at the transcendental house since they ran it together and then by the time the night came he would usually badger him until he gave in.
Now as an after thought I should mention that I have paired each of these guys up, well, because that is how they come. Neither pair knows the other pair at this point and they may never know each other or they may turn out knowing each other. I don’t know yet. I am only the spectator in this torrid tale of lust, love and liberty. Okay so there isn’t really any liberty maybe loathing but it doesn’t go as well as liberty. I digress.
Since I have not had any luck with speaking with women on these matters and getting their opinions I decided I’m going to start hanging out with my acquaintances and see how things transpire for them. It will be much more fulfilling to watch the things happen in action rather than just hear about them. I will try to remain impartial, not antagonize or instigate or hinder the process in any manner. But I make no promises………