EPISODE 2: FOR THE WEEK OF 11 JANUARY
Hi guys!
Before I start the entry, I want to say thanks to all the people who sent in comments privately and on the website. I got a ton, and I was almost overwhelmed by the amount when I opened my inbox the day after the story was posted. Keep sending in feedback! Stick around after the main body of today's entry for some public service announcements that I have to make.
And if you haven't checked out the first entry, please do, because there's some detail about my life in there which I do not repeat here.
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This week was a low-key week, and it was a great week relationship-wise. I'm feeling really good about everything. Life gets pretty high-strung at times because there's a lot to do, or at the very least it feels like there's a lot to do.
All of the sexy stuff I'll describe today took place on Monday. I went out with Matt after then (obviously), but for the rest of the week we didn't have any sexual contact because I've been on my period.
Lately I've felt a lot more charged about my relationship with Matt, and everything seems to be hurtling past me way too quickly. I think it's due to how easily Matt and I get along. He fits across my heart as tightly as a glove, which sounds really corny, but it's an accurate representation of how I feel. I haven't looked back once after our very first date, and even though the seriousness of our relationship is growing a lot faster than I would normally be comfortable with, somehow I'm fine with it, and it's because of him.
Something I didn't make clear in the first post was that I live at home with my family. I thought that was really uncommon, but it's actually a fairly common thing for people that live close to college like me, because it's just easier having everything prepared at home, and not having to pay for any extra costs. Matt lives at home with his family as well, though he's Italian, and from what he tells me his family is super tight-knit. (He's an only child. His parents are holidaying in Hawaii... sooo lucky to be out of the cold right now.)
Mine family's close too. Were typical statistically, that is, two parents and two kids, me being one of them, and my sister Becky, who's sixteen, being the other. She's really cute. She's in that difficult adolescent phase when you think you're out of the adolescent phase but you're actually not. It was around last year when I noticed her grow sexually, especially in the way she acts.
All that has a part to play in the funniest thing in the world for me at this moment; that is that Becky totally hits on Matt almost one-hundred percent of the time. So, Matt's come over about three or four times by now, and every time he's over she's a total flirt. I have never seen her behave like this before -- not even when she's with her group of friends and they're pretending to be twenty-five-year-old trailer trash hoes. I don't take it badly. She's just young and awkward, and Matt finds it really funny, because she completely lacks subtlety. Just... some of the stuff she says just makes my jaw drop. And Matt totally plays up. He, like, loves it. He was teasing me the other day, saying that she was an appealing prospect in the event our relationship ended up not working out.
No worries on my part though, because he's the one initiating all the new directions in our relationship right now.
As I said, all the following detail takes place on Monday. So, Monday night Matt took me to see Avatar in 3D. It was pretty good. I wasn't expecting much but I definitely walked out with a smile. Matt was telling me how they're making 3D TVs right now. Top Chef in 3D? Sold! But I think I missed some parts of the movie, so that might have hampered my enjoyment of it. We were sitting in each other's arms most of the time, and Matt might have had his hands on me on some inappropriate places during some prolonged periods of time near the end of the film. As I said last time, this relationship -- the fact that we live close to each other, and the fact that we were totally making out at the movies -- makes me feel like I'm still in high school.
It was late-ish when we got out. He wanted to take me to dinner, or somewhere to get something to eat, but it was around 9 or 10 in the evening. That's a weird time to eat something heavy. And I wasn't hungry. And I wanted to go back to his place, which was empty.
Matt didn't actually like Avatar that much. On the ride back to his house we talked about it. But, as I said, I suspect we weren't paying full attention to the film.
So we get to his place. (This is the bit I know you've been dying to hear, by the way.) We sat down at his kitchen table, and he started making coffee. They've got this super technical coffee machine. And the coffee was actually really good, pretty much to the level of a good coffee that you might buy from a good vendor. At first we drank them silently, staring over the top of our mugs at each other. Then he pulled me over to this massive couch in the main room, where we sat next to each other, me literally glued onto him under his arm.
I purred, with my head against his chest. "I think it's time that we talked about becoming more serious," I said. "As a couple, I mean."
"As in how we see each other, how we treat each other... what do you mean?" He flicked at something on his trousers.
"I mean..." And then I laughed, and I looked up at him, and I smiled, and he looked down at me, smiling too, and I said: "I mean I want to have sex with you. But not today."
"You want to have sex, but not today," he repeated, with a giant grin at the ironic sentence.
"Are you ready to become more serious?" I asked. He replied that he was moving at my pace and that he didn't want me to rush just for his sake. But I'm not rushing. "I would have been ready a week ago," I said. "But it's just the idea that a relationship should be slow, and patient, and held back that's slowing me down. But I'm totally ready for you. I was ready on day one."
