the continuation to an 'oh so predictable story'

haha, well i'm sure jonny's suspensful cliffhanger left everyone (or just me and him considering we're the only ones who probably read this) on the edge of their seat. yes, i did ask jonny out to drinks. i don't really know why i did. there was just something about him that made me want to be around him more and more. :) so i used his birthday as an excuse to take him out to drinks, which in England, everyone does instead of dinner dates and stuff. so we arranged a night to go out, and of course, jonny being a typical guy, didn't contact me til late afternoon of that day and asked if we were still going out and of course i said sure why not, even though i was kinda annoyed that he was so last minute on reassuring we were going through with it. so he came over to mi casa, we walked down to this cider boat on the river in bristol called the apple. yum cider! drank a buncha drinks for four hours with lots of non stop convo. then he walked me back to mine and we awkwardly were like uhmm, ya let's go somewhere else (note: by this point we were both sloshed and so my account of this part of the story may be sorta fuzzed up) so we went to this place called Agora, which is some little room with chairs, a bar, and music. We got some screwdrivers and we were talking and I think I drunkenly told Jonny about how my flatmate had warned me about him from the beginning, and how he was a player and hooked up with lots of girls. gross right? so why did i even bother to date this guy? i guess because i felt as if i didn't want anything serious in bristol, and going out with a player made it easy and simple because: 1. i liked the challenge and 2. anything you can do i can do better. haha but he reassured me he wasn't which of course any guy in the world would do/say. so after he walked me back to my place (which was down the street) and i wish i knew how, but we kissed. and then a homeless woman went up to us and asked us for a handout, and so we said no sorry, moved to the side door, and continued. hahahaha and ever since then it was drama and a battle to keep our relationship casual -- because after all, i was only studying there for the year, and was leaving in july. ugh, i swear i must've said that phrase about a bazillion times when i was in bristol. i always thought about the end, but i guess i had to in order to keep myself safe. look at me now. :) but i wouldn't take anything back.

♥, nicole