Dating?
So once again I’ve wondered into the dating world.
It always happens by accident and I don’t ever see it coming. It started with a caught glimpse. It sounds very conceited of me whenever I say this, but I really don’t mean it to. On Tuesday I went to my Fiction Forms class like normal. I sat at my desk. I said hello to my fellow classmates. It was a typical day. Soon enough class started, I was turning in a rough draft for a story I’m working on entitled, An Almost Beautiful Romance, I’m surprised I’m not bored with it yet. Anyway, so my professor started lecturing about Boldface and asked the few students who had taken part in it last year to talk about their experiences. After that he continues talking, as teachers often do, and then I look around the room at my peers. My eyes tend to wander but more than usual that day. Suddenly I lock eyes with someone, I wasn’t sure if he was gazing at me, so I do what I normally do, I look away. I mean for me 
that is just habit, I lock eyes with strangers all the time. The universal move is to look away at the same time. But I noticed he didn’t look away not until after a few seconds, his gaze had lingered. So naturally I stare back at him. No blink. He finally looks down at his paper or back at the teacher and I return my focus to my teacher. I catch my peer’s gaze a few more times when finally I figured I should probably smile or something. I decided on a smile/nod thing. I was trying to relay the message, “Great lecture huh?” But since he can’t read minds I don’t think he received that message. Well he stared in my direction a few more times throughout the remainder of class but I just pushed it out of my head. He was probably spacing out or something? So class ends, I say goodbye to my friend, and head out. As I’m walking down the hall I hear footsteps behind me. Which isn’t odd because I am in a hallway filled with students. :/ So I walk out of the English building and hold the door open for the person behind me. I continue walking when suddenly the footsteps are now next to me and the person they belong to asks me, “So how is your story going?” His name is…lets just call him Jay. Jay just so happens to be my gazing classmate. We had only spoken to each other two other times before and both were because we ended up in a group where we critiqued each others stories. I had noticed him in the beginning of the semester and during our second group time I even hinted at a group outing , aka lunch, with my two group members. I figured hanging out with him in an nonthreatening environment might be best. With writer’s you never know how they will react. They didn’t realize my subtle hints so I just dropped it. Turns out he’s actually interested in me. And has been getting up the courage to talk to me. The semester is almost over, so as you can see it has taken him some time to gather up that courage. But he finally did and it ended with me giving him my number and with a maybe date on Thursday. Which was last night. We went to Poison Girl (a bar) to listen to our teacher and two other writers read some of their work. The day started slow, and it was also pouring down rain. I direct you now to the picture of my rolled up pants and completely soaked d chucks. Those shoes are normally a lighter blue. :/ As my feet were submerged in water I just kept hoping that my
maybe date wouldn’t be canceled. Luckily it wasn’t. I also made it home in time to shower and get ready. So yay! He picked me up around 7 and we went straight to the bar to grab good seats. This place gets packed pretty quickly. I met a friend of his who had already known my name. Meaning he told him about me. I forget he isn’t a typical guy I’m used to. He’s a writer, which means he likes to talk. The night was great, we talked and laughed and enjoyed awesome readings. I also talked to several other classmates. And I have a dinner planned with several of them on Monday night. I’ve finally made friends who I can hang out with outside of class and they are all writers. I’m excited to hang out with them. One girl, who is in my Shakespeare class was there with her boyfriend at the bar. I can really see myself hanging out with them. They are a nerdy couple who I would love to call friends. I’ve been in Houston already for 2 years and I’m just now fitting in and coming out of my shell. It’s a great feeling and I don’t want it to end. I was happy with the outcome of my date and we plan on going out again. Not sure when but I will make it happen. Oh I guess I should mention this, at the bar they have a wall of pinball machines. I think its relatively new because I didn’t notice it the last time. But how freaking awesome is it? I mean it’s Spider-Man. I didn’t have any quarters on me so I couldn’t play. Oh and I finally used my Star Wars clutch at the bar. It worked out really well and I got so many compliments throughout the night. I love being surrounded by nerds. So yeah I had a great night.
Sorry for such a long post, I just wanted to explain the whole situation. I think I’m starting to like Jay, but we’ll see what happens. How do you handle asking out someone? Do you wait for them to make the first move or do you just dive right in and hope for the best?
