People like this are toxic.

Tonight, after a quick night of heavy drinking with my gal pals, I stumbled home and was in bed by 11pm. I fell asleep briefly and then woke up at 1:30. I went into the kitchen to get some water when I noticed that I had mail sitting on the counter. I got my new American Express Card (Woo Hoo! my very own credit card finally not linked to one of my parent's names) and I got a small package.

I look at the package and immediately notice the handwriting. Fuck, it's the Lorax's. I look at the return address and sure enough, it's him. It's a small padded envelope. It can only be one thing.

Months ago I gave him my watch. He loved it and every time he would see me he would tell me how he wasn't cool enough to pull something like it off. It's one of those leather cuff dealys and I loved it. But I wanted him to have it. I wanted him to know that I liked him more than I liked the watch. So I gave it to him to take with him on a trip to Russia and to keep. It broke before he left for Russia. It remained broken sitting on his desk for months...until now.

So I open up this package. I see the watch as I predicted, along with a note:

I had a fairly fruitless holiday shopping day yesterday, but I did manage to finally get your watch in working order. That had been haunting me. Been wanting you to have it back. I love it (as you know) but it's cuter on you and probably not up to my rough and tumble lifestyle. Wearing it around the past two days brought back a small tsunami of memories. Made me miss you. How are you?

-Lorax

So the first question you have, no he did not actually sign it the Lorax and although I kinda hate him right now, I still don't think it's fair to reveal his identity. Although I could post his email address here and you can all send him angry emails about how he should stop fucking with my heart like this.

Anyway, let's discuss. Here's the thing...he's lying. He never wore it. The watch is still set an hour back to the time it was set on when I gave it to him. We have since gone into daylight savings time. Maybe he did wear it around but never actually changed the time on the watch. Do people do that? I can see him doing that.

I see this whole thing as a "look at me look at me" ploy. He hates the fact that I've stopped calling, emailing, writing, whatever. But I guarantee that as soon as I start these things up again (not saying I will) we'll fall right back into our pattern of me falling in love with him and him being totally apathetic about it. No, that's not fair to say he was totally apathetic. I think he just doesn't know how much he crushes me. I don't think he really knew just how hard I fell and just how much he fucked me up.

So what's my next move? Do I call him? Do I call him on the fact that he never wore the watch? Do I call him on this desperate cry for attention? Do I just ignore him? What would you do?