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Maybe he is trying to take full advantage of the course and work with as many different people as he can.
If that was the case, why didn't he just tell me so? If he was trying to take full advantage of the course and planned different scenes with different people, I don't see why he couldn't have just given me a straightforward answer. There would've been nothing awkward about "sorry, but I'm not available for anything more in this round of class. I'm tied up in my work with so-and-so right now and I have something else scheduled with so-and-so after that."
I called him up last week and asked him if he wanted to get up a piece for the last class in March. He told me he wasn't sure exactly what he had coming up, and let's talk more about it in class. I mentioned it again in class, and he said the same thing. Then, during the break I overheard him talking with this other girl and making arrangements to do something for that day. At the end of the evening, I asked whether he was available to do something in April. He replied once more, "I don't know what's up ahead for me in April." I suggested we could maybe discuss it over the weekend, and he said "or even next week."
His repeated evasiveness (he shut down the conversation in three different instances) makes it pretty obvious that he really isn't wanting to work with me anymore. I don't know what changed our dynamic or if the rapport was even real to begin with (if I look at everything within the context of this recent behavior, there's a good chance that the whole time he was just trying to be nice to me). But whatever it is, it really really hurts. I know that this person is not important in my acting journey, but for the first time in years I seriously allowed myself to believe we were becoming friends.