I met James while working as a waitress.  He came into my restaurant with his parents a couple times and there was this mutual chemistry.  There was just something about this guy that seemed cool and different.  He actually liked spending time with his parents!  And it always seemed like they were having a great time.  I wanted to just sit down and hang out with them!  Anyway, I was going out of town for a while but he had told me where he worked and said I should come by when I got back around.  I thought about him a couple times while I was away and made it a point to stop by his work when I got home.  I walked into the shop and I can tell he’s stoked to see me.  I’m really excited too!  We exchange numbers and he actually calls me a couple days later (wow!).  We make plans to hang out and see some music.

So we meet up at 8pm for dinner, and its amazing.  It’s as if I’ve known this guy for years.  The conversation just doesn’t stop.  So we’re having drinks over dinner and then head over to the bar to catch the show.

More drinking.  The band is rad.  More drinking.  Weeee!  This is fun!  I’m drunk!  Lets walk around campus.  Have you seen the balls on campus?  What??  You haven’t?  Omg.  Lets go, you gotta see this.

Shades of high school and college.  I haven’t had this much fun in years.  We kiss and walk back to his place and I’m just the right amount of buzzed for this.  Make out on the couch, I take my shirt off, he keeps telling me how beautiful I am.  He takes off my pants, this is so fucking hot.  Move on into the bedroom and its the best sex I’ve had in a long time.  Awesome.

Wake up in the morning a little shy (dang morning breath), but its good.  I don’t end up getting home until 1pm.  First date = success.

Over that week I hung out at his shop a couple times and we talked on the phone for 2 hours one night.  2 HOURS!  Wtf?  Am I sixteen??  Jeez.  All the times we talk he keeps saying how amazing I am, that he couldn’t believe I came into his shop, blah blah blah, 20 – 20 hindsite.  We weren’t going to see each other for a while because we’re both super busy but I got done with some family stuff early on Friday night and was downtown so I called to see if he wanted to come hang.  This is where the downward spiral begins.  I didn’t know it yet, but I was going to have an entire relationship in the course of a week and a half.  NEAT! (more…)