ok, backstory is needed to understand this, so here it goes, my friend, Craig got kicked out of his house after turning 18 for no other reason than his mom and her new husband were like "we don't have to legally care for you anymore" and are basically the biggest of douches, I could go on a rant about all the stuff they've done to him and how much I hate them but.. that's a whole different story

So Craig signed up for JobCorp, which is pretty much a place where you go to train for a specific job field of your choice, kinda like college but you don't get as much credit in the work force as college would, and also you travel a lot, you don't get as much free time, and you basically have to stay in your assigned dorms for the next 6 years of training, but it gives him a place to stay so he wouldn't have to couch hop anymore so.. he can have that while getting trained, seemed like a win-win

Anyway, that's the backstory, so now for what I really want to kinda rant about, Craig preordered and paid off a copy of Smash Bros.. and our plan was, he was going to JobCorp right? and he wasn't going to be here anymore when Smash got released, plus he sold his 3DS anyway, so he couldn't play the game anyway, so we set it up with the people at GameStop so I could pick up the game for him instead, and that it would be his gift to me

But, he still hasn't gone to JobCorp yet, he's still here, so the plan changed to we'd go to GameStop together and pick it up, and I'd let him borrow my 3DS for a bit, you know, until he got his fill of it, and then he'd return it

so, yesterday at release, I go to pick him up, as planned, and when I get there, another friend of mine, Jake, was there too, and Jake was like "Oh hey Nic, I just got back from taking Craig to GameStop to get Smash" and I was like "uhh.. ok.. so then why am I here?" and Craig said "oh, I need to go back to GameStop anyway, and Jake can't take me, he has to leave for work" and I was like.. ok..

so then, I was telling Craig a funny story about a trash bin that was in the street, and how I had to maneuver around it, and the guy behind me didn't because a gust of wind pushed it into a yard and I was like "he has the force!" and it was supposed to be really funny, but as I was talking, Craig pulls out a new 3DS XL, the Smash Bros addition, the one I've been wanting, it was even the blue one I wanted too, and he was just showing it off, and I was like "dude! that's the thing I've been wanting for the longest time! and you sold your 3DS! why would you buy another one? you're just going to sell that one too!" not to mention the other 3DS he had he only had for like a week and sold it for a PS Vita, and was also an XL, while I'm still stuck with the old one, and all the buttons are wearing out and I've been in need for a new one, and really wanted an XL, not to mention the Smash Bros design

He didn't even want another DS from what I could tell, I was going on about how the Vita was soo much better, I mean, I guess it broke, but.. still, especially after he sold his first XL after a week of having it

But anyway, he said "Nic, when I'm gone this will be the only thing that will keep me occupied when I have nothing to do" and I was like "what about your Vita?" and he was like "oh, it broke" ... so then, I was like "so.. you don't need to borrow my DS anymore then.. so what about Smash?" and he said, "oh sure, I'll let you borrow it sometime if you let me borrow one of your games" and I was like "Craig.. I'm a completionist, and Smash for me is not a game you can just simply.. borrow"

I didn't say this out loud, but I was thinking about how we planned it to be a gift to me and now.. it's not, and how this was supposed to be his nice thing for me after everything I've done for him, you don't even know how much I've done for him, what with his parents kicking him out, I've given him a place to sleep, food, gave him rides everywhere, even to Kansas City and back, which it like 30 min. away, and now he's just going to go back on his word like that? it makes me pretty upset

Heck I even preordered Smash Bros as well, but I canceled it because Craig said he'd give me his, in fact he was there when I preordered it, and there when I canceled it, so he knew I was expecting it

I told him I would have liked to know plans had changed, and he told me "I didn't know until this morning" even though he woke me up that morning with a phone call, asking me to pick him up from Chris' then he sent me a text before I left saying that Jake was there, but not that he took him to GameStop

I did end up taking him to GameStop again for what he had forgotten to do there before, but it turns out he just wanted to check how many points his new GameStop credit card earned him, don't know why he couldn't just.. do that over the phone but.. whatever I guess

I don't even know what the heck he's thinking, buying all this stuff, it's not like he's rich, he has very limited money, he has no job, and no real place to stay permanently, you'd think he'd be smarter with his money, or at the very least get a job before he leaves, he's had plenty of time to get one, but he's like "oh, I don't want to waste an employer's time and money dealing with background checks and stuff if I'm just going to leave" but it's been a few months now, I guess he has the excuse that he doesn't know when the papers and stuff finish processing and they accept him, because really it should have happened a loooong time ago, what's taking them so long is beyond me

I've just been so hype for Smash... you don't even know.. I would just go out and buy my own copy but my parents don't have jobs currently so all my money goes towards bills, I have no spending money cause they take it all, though I guess having a place to live is more important.. but still.. I'm still broken-hearted and I feel betrayed..

that is all