About a month ago I got on Face Book and had a new friend request. It was from Wade. Wade and I had one mutual friend who also happened to be my roommate. I asked my roommate about Wade and she said that he was normal and cute, but she didn't know him too well. I figured "Hey, he looks harmless enough. I guess we can be friends!" So it became face book official :) Not long after this Wade started up a conversation in chat. It went something like this...(Actually, exactly like this thanks to copy and paste.)
So I know this may come off as creepy and stockerish. I'm neither of those. Just wondering how you know *Jess..? Which is half the reason I added ya when facebook suggested you to me.
haha you just lowered your creeper status by half! keep it up! Jess is one of my roommates. how do YOU know her?
Half?! Was it really that high? She used to come down to the golf course I work at all the time!
Na...you didn't look like creep so I decided I'd accept haha if you would have looked like a weirdo your creeper stats would have been off the charts!
****Blah blah blah...we talked about ourselves and then we got around to the topic of wake surfing****
haah there's quite the sign up list for lessons though..you could be bumped up to the top for a small price though.
HA. competition?! what is this?! i think i could handle a small price...what exactly is "small"?
haah well it's seven numbers long..there's usually three numbers first then a dash then four more come after
****for about half a second I was confused and then realized he was asking for my number****
Normally I don't give my number out to just anybody. ESPECIALLY over face book. Can you say sketch...?! But something about this kid had won me over (maybe the idea of wake surfing lessons) so I gave it to him. Here's where the embarrassing judging part comes in. After our little conversation, I decided it would be best if I actually got an idea of what this kid looked like so I would know what I was getting myself into. So I face book stalked him...typical. In some pictures, Wade looked miiiiighty fine. In other pics, he barely looked average. How is it possible for someone to be so consistently inconsistent?! (Looking back it's because some of the pictures are a bit dated, and he doesn't put every detail of his life up for people to see-hence the limited selection.)
For the next few weeks Wade would text me, we would talk for a while and then I would forget to text back. I wasn't intentionally not texting back, I would legitimately forget. I'm sure that has happened to you. You are talking to someone but aren't thaaaat interested in the conversation, you close out of the text for some reason, and next thing you know its 2 days later and your talking once again thinking, "CRAP. I totally forgot to respond...oops..." And you really do feel bad, but not bad enough to keep it from happening again.
So that is the cycle of our textual relationship. One day he invited me to go boating, but I already had plans (boo. boating=1000000 times better than 11 hrs of volunteer work) Another time I was out to dinner with friends when he called wanting to do something later that night. I said sure and for various reasons, I had to bail. At this point you may be thinking "Wow Rylie. You are the biggest flake EVER. Annoying much?" But before you judge, let me plead my case. I wasn't intentionally leading him on and then backing out at the last second, but because I had never met this kid in real life, I had no real motivation to not be a flake. Capiche?
Today, August 22, 2011, I hung out with Wade. I was extremely nervous going into it. I was nervous that things wouldn't jive with our personalities and conversation would be forced. I was nervous that he wouldn't be at all good looking and the whole night I would be sitting there wishing I was somewhere else. I was really hoping this wouldn't be the case because A) I'm still on the hunt for a nice man, and B) If I was wishing I was somewhere else I probably wouldn't be the best company, and I wouldn't want to ruin someone else's evening because I'm shallow!
***Phone Rings***
Hey! I'm here. I think. I'm standing in some grass by a main building I think...?
***As I'm walking out the door***
Stay where you are! I'll come and find you. Were my directions really that bad?!
***As I get to the bottom of the stairs I can see him across the courtyard but his back is turned to me***
Turn around, walk straight and come up the stairs. I see you!
***It's so dark I still can't see him as he is walking towards me***
Then he just about went up the wrong stairs.
I laughed. Out loud. THEN he saw me.
Nothing like laughter to diffuse a would-be/could-be awkward first hello.
:) He was really cute. REALLY cute. I am a sucker for scruff. There was scruff. Blue is my favorite color. He was wearing blue. Tall is a must. He is nice and tall. Like, I could wear my tallest heals and he would still have a few inches on me tall. We sat at my kitchen table and talked while we waited for my brownies to be done cooking. He asked me if I have bad habits. The only things I could come up with were cracking my toes and going into weird voices with certain people. He told me his first reaction when he gets startled is violence. I got a kick out of that. Just the image of him slapping his sister and punching his dad in the stomach because they scared him cracked me up. We drove up the canyon and and talked some more. Things I noticed: we chew the same gum-NOT because I tasted it, but because I saw it in the cup holder, he is the tiniest bit shy, and for a boy, he is pretty clean!
Unfortunately for me, he has to work at 6am tomorrow morning so our evening was cut short.
Frickin A. Why did I wait so long to hang out with him?!
Don't judge a book by it's cover kids.
(Unless it's a porn magazine. This type of book=a whore or male prostitute in people form.)
I'm going to hang out with him again real soon. Mark my words.
*Names have been changed
**Apparently these weird lines have been added too...? They are from copying and pasting from FB.
*Names have been changed
**Apparently these weird lines have been added too...? They are from copying and pasting from FB.
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