Green.
I want money. [For getting straight A's this semester]
and I think I want Zelen.
But what’s holding me back? We’re literally .. << that close to dating. He asked “Well, what is it that you want?”
the general consensus:
- a) we both like each other
- b) we both planned on being single for a lot longer than might actually occur given recent events
- c) we both want to focus on school as our first priority and are elated we have this in common.
He thinks I’m out of his league. I think, so what if I may be (which I don’t think I am personally).. I think he’s awesome.
He tells me not to put him on a pedestal, because then he can’t kiss me from up there. How freakin’ cute. Sometimes I feel like this is moving comfortably fast.
Here’s the timeline:
A) We meet at Hunter by chance, at my friends radio performance/concert.
(Post performance, the band was selling posters at $1.00 each and I overheard him say that he had no cash to buy one because he traveled from Westchester and spent his money on the metronorth. I generously offer to buy him a poster [after having bought one for myself and 3 other friends who didn't have change] He thanks me, and gives me a hug and we chit-chat for about 3 minutes. Before he leaves, I ask him if he has a Facebook, and he answers yes, I write down his name in my phone and find him once I arrive home that night.)
B) We talk over Facebook, sharing a bunch of “omgz we shud totally hang out and talk for more than 5 minutes while we’re both sober” …we find we like a lot of similar bands, and we reminisce about the night we met, me telling him how cute I thought he was and him telling me how embarrassed he was, because he was slightly drunk at the time, in front of ‘a very pretty girl’
c) we finally make plans to hang out [a couple weeks ago] at Hunter, in the club room and watch a movie…the first of which is Coraline (<333) as well as The Orphan. I bring food for us to share which surprises the crap out of him, for the better. He tells me he’s not looking forward to Christmas because he’ll be the only one this year without a partner in holiday photos. I learn a lot of other things about him this night, including the fact he used to want to be a priest for a while. This blew my mind! 
d) we talk online a few days before new years eve and he tells me his friend is having a party and invites me to be his date. There are 4 other parties I could have attended but I figured why not switch things up this year and I go to Mamaroneck to party. We have lots of fun. At 12, he doesn’t grab my face for the new year’s kiss like I wanted, but comes up from behind, grabs my waist and gives me a nice kiss on the cheek. Sweet, and innocent…but not for long. About ten minutes later, we’re tipsy, standing in the hallway making out and holding hands and the like…for a while.
e) I crash at his house that night, his parents love me instantly. Before we headed to the party, he asked them at the horribly last minute if I could spend the night there as I live in the Bronx, and they almost cut him off with a “SURE!!”, I expressed my thanks and his mother gave me a “this is your home too, don’t worry about it, no need to say thank you”. We’re both shocked as I’m the first of his friends to sleep over, never mind the fact I’m a girl. When we got home from the party, a pull out couch was ready for me. There would have been some pajamas for me as well, if I hadn’t told her that I had already brought some with me. So generous! We kiss some more, and stay up talking for a bit. He goes to his room and I crash. He wakes me up with a kiss on the back of my neck *melt* and insists that I fall asleep again because its early, and that he’s the one who has to go to the the MOMA later that day, not me. He makes us guatemalan hot chocolate, when I’m awake for real, and we watch VH1, while eating donuts his parents brought us all that morning.
f) He calls his friend to reschedule the MOMA trip because he forgot he had to go to church. Guess who goes to church with him and his 2 sisters? Yep, me. We hold hands during mass and walk back to his house alone afterward, making plans to go to the nearby beach while it’s still winter. We head to the city, him to the museum with his friend, me to Hunter to discuss Japanese Study Group stuff. Now I realized that ironically, neither of our plans worked out that day, lmfao. (Hunter was officially closed on New Year’s Day and the exhibit was sold out.)
g) Yesterday he goes to run some errands at his school (City College) and I accompany him at 12:30-ish, afterward we walk from his school to Central Park, through the park, and down past Hunter to 59th and 2nd where he had a job interview as a volunteer tutor. We grab some food, go to Starbucks after I directed us the wrong way at first, and went to Hunter to rest our legs some more and talk. He tell me his friends ask him when he’s gonna ask me out. His parents ask him when he’s gonna ask me out. His sisters (who he’s surprised actually like me) also, you guessed it….ask him when he’s going to ask me out. We leave around 9:45 pm. I get off my train, to wait for his, and as the doors close he tells me to “stop being so confused.“
He’s right.
It’s clear what he wants. I think it’s pretty clear what I want too. So I don’t understand the hesitation. Silly humans. I think I’ll make a move. He’s super cool, and I love his green hair that he’s soon going to dye. I’ll keep his name as Zelen though (Bulgarian for ‘green’) as long as he calls me Moushka (the super cool circus mice in Coraline). ^_^
_K.V._
P.S.
He gets bonus points for having the soundtrack to “Les Choristes” in his ipod. WTF. I love that movie and own the dvd and sountrack and had never thought I’d find anyone else who’d even heard of the movie. Irony: He hates French! He also gets bonus points for being smart…4.0 gpa this semester, major in computer engineering, with a double minor in math and physics. But still manages to have a social life, and goes to shows. Lip piercing, eyebrow piercing, new gauges…Score! *tiger woods -pre-adultery-scandal- fist pump* ell-oh-ell
