Are You Gonna Try Me?
– SATURDAY
It was a good two weeks since I had seen *School Girl, so when she opened the door, I walked in, gave her a hug, and I kissed her.
That last move was not allowed.
This was the first time we were seeing each other as “friends”. Two weeks ago, we decided it best for us to just be friends after existing in a gray area since the Thanksgiving holiday. So when I saw her this past weekend, our kiss was a form of habit. There was hesitation on both our parts, but it happened, and I knew then, this visit was going to be an exercise in killing an old habit, and as we all know, old habits die hard.
Back in her bedroom, lying on her bed, we revisited the conversation we had two weeks prior; the one that put us in the friend zone. I also tried to make out with her several times during the conversation.
What can I say? Some people just get into my system.
She resisted, and back and forth it went for a good ten minutes before she said, “Maybe it’s that the honesty we used to feel was respectful, now feels disrespectful because our feelings started changing.”
Bingo.
I moved back, taking my mouth away from her neck. She had a point, a point so good I just had to give up on my advances.
School Girl and I saw other people the entire time we were seeing each other, a fact neither of us hid from one another. But even though our situation hadn’t changed, our feelings had. They grew. So now, we were stuck with idle feelings, where two people are into each other, but don’t do anything about those feelings. In our efforts to be cool about everything, School Girl and I were left feeling cold.
“You’re right,” I said. “Maybe we just need to stick with our decision to be friends, because if we go back to the gray area, we’re probably going to have this conversation again two weeks from now.” School Girl nodded in agreement.
Still, I liked spending time with her, and even though her bed wasn’t big, I always enjoyed my time in it, even if we weren’t doing anything. Much like the physical aspects of our relationship, her place and all the furniture in it, was in my system, so I had to ask her, “Can I still sleep over from time to time?”
“Are you gonna try me,” she asked with a quizzical look.
I looked her dead in the eye and with a smile said, “Yes. Are you going to turn me down?”
“Yes,” she deadpanned.
“Then we shouldn’t have any problems,” I laughed.
Then, we took a nap. What can I say? Old habits die hard.
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