Seems to be Going Well

On Friday night, my NF said he was going to stop by my Sunday School classroom after the 11:00 service. I told my co-teacher to expect to meet him and she sensed my anticipation. Well, we waited and waited and finally all the kids were picked up and he never showed. Bev asked me if I was disappointed, so I told her I was. He response was that that showed me what my true feelings were for him and that I really liked him. Well, duh! I think I knew that already. Then she went on to tell me not to worry because there could be a thousand reasons for why he didn't show. He could have met up with a friend and couldn't get away. He could be sick. He could have had car problems.

Well, I decided not to worry about it and went home. As I got into my car, I noticed I had a missed call AND a voice mail. Yup. It was my NF. Turned out that his car had overheated the night before and was in a parking lot in West Chester so he was not able to make it to church. His message said that he was just going to be at home watching the Phillies game and that I could come over if I wanted and did not have other plans. (He already knew I did not have plans for Father's Day since I had told him on Friday that my dad said he was not going to be home until later that day and he did not want to do anything).

So, I gave him a call on my way home. We were talking for a while then he said, "Oh. My roommate came home and he brought a couple people with him. I didn't think he was coming homing home." Then he added, "Well, you can still come over if you want to."
I sensed hesitation and politely asked him if it would make him uncomfortable if I did. He admitted that it would because he had not mentioned any of this to his roommate. Keep in mind that I know his roommate too. But then he suggested that I head over to the Great Room at church (AKA the gym) after the Vine (the church service I attend) because that is where he would be for the singles group he attends.

Okay. He thought he would be uncomfortable to have me come over when his roommate is there because his roommate did not know anything. But now he was suggesting that I come over to the place where all of his friends would be? Somehow that made sense.

After the Vine that evening, I went over to the next building. (I had originally asked Andrea to go with me, but in the end decided to go on my own).

I walked in and wouldn't you know the first person to see me is Ted? He immediately asked me what I was doing there so I told him that I was just stopping by. Then he asked me if I had fun on Friday.

Complete confusion.

Then I remembered that 20Something played ultimate frisbee instead of our usual thing and said, "Oh. I didn't make it to that."

Whew. That was a close one.

Eventually my NF made his way over, but not until Ted was away. I stood there talking to him and a few other people the rest of the night. It was the end so people were making their way out. Finally my NF said that he would ask me if I wanted to grab dinner but he didn't have a car and wouldn't have a way home, so I offered to give him a ride. He agreed and went to tell Ted that he didn't need a ride because he was "going to grab dinner with a friend and get a ride home with that friend." Ted wisely responded, "Be good to that woman. She's one of my leaders."

You can't get much past Ted.

So that was Sunday. I ended up seeing him again on Thursday because I had a leaders meeting over at Ted's place.

At the end of the meeting my NF came down and was in the kitchen, so I made my way in there to talk to him. We were talking and eventually I was the only person left. Ted came over and the 3 of us were talking and my NF left the room for a bit so I waited for him to come back and when he came back upstairs he went back into the kitchen. Oh. We were in the living room at this point. I still waited for him to come back but he didn't so I just said to Ted that I should probably get going and said goodnight to him, his other roommate and the roommate's friend and waved to my NF and walked out.

As I walked out to my car I heard my NF run out the front door and yell for me to wait. I asked him what was up and he said that Ted said, "What is wrong with you? Are you really just going to let her walk out alone?"

Ted's a good guy, right?

So, he walked me to my car and we stood out there for a while and made plans for Saturday. He is going to come to my roommate's birthday party! I am very excited.

I had 20Something tonight and Ted came out. When I saw him I just said, "Nice work last night." He asked when so I told him "After I left." He laughed and said, "I know. I asked him why he didn't say goodbye and he said he did then the next thing I heard was the front door slamming.

Too funny.

*Disclaimer* This guy is really not socially inept. I think he was just shy because both of his roommates were around and he knew he was going to be teased no matter what he did.