Part III...

The story is almost to its end!

So...let's see...

We're sitting down and chatting about random things, pretty much anything etc. A little later a few of his friends walk by towards the bar, and chatted a bit with him before getting more drinks, and then went back to the dance floor. They had wondered where we had wandered off to. I told him that I'd be alright if he wanted to go back to dancing, I'd just sit since I had enough of the loud pulsing music. He was nice and said he was danced out too and was fine chilling, etc, even when I insisted. I felt bad that he was sitting with me instead of hanging with his friends...

We chatted again a bit, and then he makes this random offhand comment about how it's too bad that we hadn't met sooner, that it's a small world since we knew mutual people, etc. Huh, interesting, "whatever" is what I was telling myself. I had no clue how to take that comment other than to agree obviously...it was weird...

Finally the rest of his friends start drifting by and stay to chat, which is good, since I really think I was probably running out of things to talk about. :P More chatting, and then I get dropped off at home...finally! I said "night" to them all...I was so tired from everything...

You're probably thinking, anticlimatic letdown! ;) Haha, yep, other than the offhand comment, I didn't think too much into things. Although the friend that I had to "report" back too had much more to say about guy's behaviors and how TG's was suspect (sitting next to me at almost everything, the offhand comment, etc)...and that he was definitely interested...LOL. I like to live life rationally, which is why I downplayed everything...and why everyone else up-played everything since they thought I was in denial.

I'm just not keyed into guys and what they might be thinking, so sue me! It's just not my mindset unless they straight up tell me they're interested by asking me out to dinner or movies, or whatever and it's one on one, and it's not the chummy friend kind. LOL!

My friends egged me to contact him...etc. Finally I gave in, through email and such. But as I think I mentioned before if the guy can't take initiative into expressing his interest or intentions, why should I waste my time. I'm a traditionalist, and there's no way that I would ever show my interest of a guy first :P It's just not me, I don't do "flirty" at least not intentionally.

So the past year or so, it's been sporadic ims/short emails here and there. There's been some statements through the ims that made be question whether he was really just being the gentleman/nice person/funny guy he is, or if he was "flirting" instead. Random comments once in awhile that tend to throw me a bit. Since we tend to "joke" a lot when we IM each other, it's really hard to tell and it's not like we chat with each other a lot.

I will say one thing though, he did call me on my bday last year (not this year though), which was really nice of him. My friends yelled at me for not calling him on his. :P Told you I'm a shy girl... And when times were a little tough for me during one point in time, and he found out when we were online, he immediately called to see how I was doing. So I gotta give him points there.

BUT, the thing that I have to keep telling my IRL friends is that I'm not going to go nuts over this guy over these little things. He's still not around since he's from out of state. That makes things hard, not only keeping in touch...I mean since I last chatted with him online, it's been months.

The last time we chatted, he brought up the fact that he would be in town for another of his friends' big events and that we should "totally meet up", I'm assuming since I know the friend, that he meant it more as a group. :P

So now you have the rundown. So am I right to defend myself to my IRL friends about how it really means nothing, and that they're making it seem bigger than it really is. Or are they really onto something...

I, for one, probably won't believe it until TG outright says something to me...:P Cause I'm rational like that.