I am taken

August 2022

Summer days, at their highest, we were only thinking about going to the beach, having fun and exploring. Already 3 years of university and everyone was back home visiting for summer vacation. I have always enjoyed this time, where everything returns back the way it was, everyone is in town but each one with different stories they brought from wherever they are in the world.

I was hanging out with my boyfriend, the one and only I was dating since high school, more than three years now, time flies.
He told me one day, that one of his friends, I have never met before, is hosting a little gathering at his place, and that he suggested that I take part. I was happy to join, it would be nice to spend a beach day somewhere new.

So I went there, it was a lovely place, everyone was so nice and funny.

I met his friend, he was really nice to me and welcoming, he made sure I don't feel excluded.

His name is Weston, he is studying in the same city as my boyfriend and that's how they know each other.

Weston : So you guys are doing long distance ?

Me : yeah but we meet very often, and we spend the summer together so it's mangeable.

Weston : I get you that's really cool, and so you never visited us ?

Me : I did !! So many times

Weston : She came and you didn't introduce her to me ? *winked at me*

Nice joke Weston, I admit, but a bit dangerous depending on the person you're joking with. It didn't really bother me, nor my boyfriend. We were chill about it.

Afterwards, we went to the beach, the sea was wavy and full of rocks.

I was in the water when a wave hit me and I felt someone's hand on my back, I turned around and it was Weston. "You were about to hit the rock" he said. It was a bit awkward I admit but I just smiled at him and said thank you.

That was the first time I met him and I didn't make a big deal about it. When I went back home, I didn't even add him on social media, even tho I stalked him, and he didn't either. So I slowly forgot about him.

It is hard for me to think about anyone else when I am with my boyfriend, and I didn't want to expose the facts to him, I could be overreacting after all. So I didn't say anything, and he said that Weston thinks I am really fun, so I told him it was a pleasure for me to meet him.