to be honest this is more of a thank you/update thread than anything else.
I don’t know if anyone is interested but this is basically an update of what has happened since gorgeous girl II.
So the story so far is:
- I realised i was being a complete f*cking muppet (thanks to you guys and gals)
- I asked her out
- She said yes
Anyway, we went out - i took her to a small posh italian restaurant in twickenham that i’d been to before.
I’d agreed to meet her at her house at about seven o’clock and her housemate let me in - to be honest i still wasn’t sure about this whole dating a friend thing at first - yeah she was good looking and a great person, but i still wasn’t sure whether i could ever be properly attracted to her. But as she came down the stairs…
DAMN!
she looked amazing. I never thought it was possible for someone to actually be speechless but i was. She looked absolutely unbelievable. She was wearing this long but slinky black number and she’d obviously had her hair done because it framed her face perfectly. I can honestly say that i have never seen anyone look better - i had a proper jaw-dropping speechless moment.
So we went for dinner, and things were a bit awkward at first - but i remembered what you guys had said about treating her exactly like i had before, and after she had managed to flick soup down herself (which served to break the ice) we were great - i really had a fantastic night. We talked a lot, we had a laugh, it was the best “date” i’ve had with anyone in a long, long time.
So at the end of the night, i walked her home and as we said goodbye I realised that i really, really wanted to kiss her - so i did. And she kissed back - in fact it turned into a full on snog-fest.
And she invited me in.
and i could have gone in. My “lower-brain” was SCREAMING at me to go in. But for once in my life, i was suave, i was sophisticated.
I was Humphrey f*cking Bogart in Casablanca and walked away.
The day after she rang me up and told me she’d had a great night. She asked me if i fancied meeting her for lunch - and i said i’d love to. We ended up spending the day together, i went shopping with her, we had dinner again at a nice little pub i know and in the evening we went back to hers and watched a couple of movies then, without any pressure for either of us we, well, we…
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We went out twice more again before christmas, and for the rest of the christmas period we talked on and off by phone - both of us had gone home to spend time with parents. I came back up here to london on the 27th.
She came back on the 29th - to find out that her heating had broken, a couple of pipes had burst (luckily without an real damage) and that she was alone - her housemate was still down in deepest darkest Shropshire. She rang me a little bit distressed and i invited her to stay the night and told her not to worry - i’d sort things out.
Next day i rang a mate of mine who was a heating engineer and owed me a favour (god bless English pubs - you meet all types of people!) who promised to come round on the 2nd (and actually turned up as well!) and i went round with her, soldering iron and copper piping in hand, on the 31st and sorted out the pipes (i’ve never been so grateful for having a dad who was a plumber and insisted that i learn how to deal with common plumbing emergencies). I earned some serious brownie points for that!
After sorting everything out, we jetted back to mine and i had the most enjoyable new years i have ever had.
We snuggled up under a duvet on the sofa nekkid (TMI - i know) surrounded by candles with a nice bottle of wine and some nibbles.
Add Jools Holland to the equation and it all made the perfect new year.
even though we’ve only been together a short time we are officially “a couple”.
scary as it sounds…
I’m lovestruck
So i guess what i’m trying to say is that i’m happier now than i have been in a long time, and that to a large extent thats thanks to a number of you guys (there are too many to name - but everyone who contributed to gorgeous girl I and II - particularly CRorex, Mornea, Woeg, Hugh Jass, XJETGIRLX, Giraffe and Cosmopolitan) for helping me to realise some stuff.
so…
THANK YOU
and if there is anything, anything, you lot ever need then you got it. you need support, advice, websites (my normal business), hell - want someone killed? I’m there for you.
thanks!