An open letter to my future husband, my high school best friend, my dog, the house that built me, my cousin that is also my best friend, etc. We have all seen these surface on your Facebook feed, however, I think most of us are forgetting that ever present male in our life.

The boy that only has time to see you after he’s ingested Taco Bell and too much whiskey. The boy that has an alarming pattern of talking to you more after dark than in the daytime. The boy that primarily texts you back after midnight, and the boy you hate yourself for texting back.

A modern day love story for millennials. Similarly falling under the same romantic gesture of inviting a girl over for “Netflix & Chill” is the idea that it’s OK to call a girl when you realize you’ve come up empty handed after a long night at the bar.

After a sweeping glance around, a boy suddenly comes to terms with the fact that his "slay game" was not strong that night. It dawns on him that everyone he considers attractive is either already paired up or too drunk to form a sentence. Hm, he muses to himself what is he to do now? Suddenly it’s clear to him in his drunken haze. There’s a girl who he knows really likes him and he never texted her back that afternoon, so now is the time to move in for the kill. He then monopolizes her feelings for him and calls the girl who tries to act like she’s not aware that she’s his back-up plan.

The above scenario has either happened to you, you’re guilty of dialing her number or you’re a third party that has rolled her eyes at her friend who insists “No, it is not a booty call, God Jessica stop being so jealous."

In a college town with lots of hormones and drink specials, it’s not out of the ordinary for this to happen. But just because it’s not abnormal, doesn’t mean it’s not any less annoying. It must be nice to have the kind of ego to think that a girl would rather climb out of her down comforter to share your twin size mattress and pretend she doesn’t care that you snore.

I always wonder if you’re intentionally disrespecting the girl you are so openly using, or if you really are so incredibly self-absorbed you don’t see that it’s wrong. And if you do happen to be the kind of guy who believes that calling a girl after midnight isn’t completely insulting, you’re also the kind of guy that would get offended by the idea of a girl friend-zoning you.

I’m not saying to fake interest in a girl you want nothing to do with, I know some of you don’t have the brain capacity to be genuinely nice to a girl that has nothing to offer you. However, I am saying to not take advantage of someone’s feelings. There is an endless supply of people that don’t care about you, so why do you prey on the one girl that likes you, knowingly hurting someone in the process of quenching the kind of thirst that Coors Light can’t fulfill?

If you wouldn’t hang out with her during the day, if you don’t know what series she’s watching on Netflix, or if you don’t have a clue what she’s majoring in: don’t even think about asking her to come over when you get lonely after midnight.

So to the next time you need my love and the hotline blings: I’ll be binge-watching Netflix in my bed or making fun of the way you can’t handle your alcohol with my friends.

So if you need me after midnight? Don’t.

If you’re bored after a long night, get some sleep. Maybe you should start going to that 8 a.m. anyways.