So as the time continued I began to think that maybe I would always be a single Pringle. But that was what I thought. Until guy 4 came along and we clicked from literally day 1. To be 100% honest we hadn't actually met yet but it felt like we had know each other forever. We talked week in and week out for 3 months before I decided that it was time we got to see each other.
The difficult part about meeting him was he was at boarding school 40 minutes out of where I am. So that would mean that I actually have to tell my parents which terrified me. My parents were the kind of people to tease and provoke you until they got a reaction which pissed me off to high heaven. However it had to be done. I got the exact reaction I thought I would but nevertheless they agreed. (Unaware of the fact that we hadn't actually met- I made up a story and got him to go along with it)
You probably think- poor dude. He has to meet you and your parents in one night. Rough I know but I didn't give 2 shits. We arrived at the boarding house and got the boarder master to call him. Never had someone looked as cute as he did when he walked towards me shaking as badly as he was. He gave me a quick hug before making his way towards my parents to meet them. They were blown away- I was too, he looked even better in person. We stumbled into the car and he sat patiently waiting for the 21 questions I had warned him about. My oh-so-awkward parents fired them off like a machine gun and he took it a hell of a lot better than I ever expected.
By the end of the night I was hooked. He was everything I had come to know in the last 3 months and more.
Time went on and I surprised him at one of his rugby games - well tried to at least. Somehow he knew I was coming but at least I was there. I didn't get to see him much as he chilled with his team almost all the time and I chilled with my brothers friends. As the day was finished I was heading out towards the car after having lost him in a crowd of overly excited spectators. He ran up behind me but when I approached me I think he panicked and didn't know what to do because he weirdly put his fingers to my head like a robber. He hugged me and said that he would see me tomorrow for our date.
Some would say I was way to excited for this date and my best friend and her boyfriend (guy 1) joined us just to kill the awkwardness of the new couple stage. The day was awesome, he was cute and romantic and everything I wanted except for the fact that I ended up paying for everything. I don't mind paying -not at all, but I am a bit cliche in that I would have liked the first date to be a bit more traditional. Anyways we ended the date later that day and dropped him off. Then I waited just over 2 weeks and told me mom I had to see him again. And that was the first weekend he ever stayed over at my house.
We had a semi good relationship. It was difficult in that we only saw each other every second weekend but we were happy when you were together. We dated the last few months of his grade 11 year and as his final months of Matric approached we knew that our relationship was on a time bomb. 6 days after my birthday he dumped me. I sobbed into my dads chest because although I was expecting it- I was not ready to loose a best friend.
After we broke up he had promised me that we would stay friends regardless the circumstances. The first couple of months while we both recovered we didn't talk much but when we did- it was like old times. A small part of me ached when I heard his voice but we knew that even if he didn't move, we wouldn't have lasted. All was good until the day he got a new girlfriend and I was no longer someone to bother about.
Was I a girlfriend ? Or a place to stay during the weekends. That's what bothers me.
