Nate: Part Deux

So, to pick up from last night, Nate started texting me just the day after things broke off with him and his girlfriend. Seriously. The next day. Shocked? Yes. Happy? Very. We talk and talk and keep up with each other all semester. Texting mid day, texting at night, you get the picture. We sort of talk about what exactly is going on with us. We are great friends. Close even! But we realize it's such a gray area. Neither of us can date because of distance but we don't want to lose what we have. It was a sort of spark I guess. 

Then we have it all planned. We would hang out as much as we could over the summer. The only bummer to this is that he didn't live in my city any more. His parents retired to another city, but it's not too terribly far away.

I should mention, he's a tad bit shy. I know, you wouldn't think so at all with all of the girlfriends he seems to have. He tells me he's playing guitar at [insert place] and that I should go. I show up and run into some people I went to high school with, but it was sort of awkward because I was never in their friend group. So there is he. On stage. Singing his little heart out. Okay he's really not perfect. He has that sort of old timey country sound but it could be refined. At any rate, it still makes my heart skip a beat. Afterwards, because he is shy, he decides to sit at a table just a few feet away, back towards me. Instead of talking to my face, we just text. Talk about awkward.  

It was getting late and things weren't panning out so I left. He didn't exactly realize that I had left and just after I had left he texts me and asks where I am. Alas, I was too far away to go back.

Things never really worked out that summer. I ended up going to the city for the summer to do some work so it left no time to see him. Of course, he kept in touch.

Just as I was giving up on Nate... a new guy shows up in the picture: Rhys.

more to come. eyes are getting heavy again. 

here's to a night in another city

-B