Sorry for the delay in stories, my life has gone to shit. Sorry if this seems a little bit odd, or a bit not-sexy, but like most of my stuff, it is true, this actually happened, and we all know real life doesn't always make for the most flowing, sexy, perfect story. Sorry if it's not great, I haven't written one of these for years....and sorry the intro was so long, the story wouldn't make sense in sequence without it...especially if I add another Crash Course story later. Hope you enjoy. And let me know what you think. Thanks!
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So, it had been waaay too long since I had gotten any. My long-term relationship with Brandon had fallen apart, he had started dating (and moved in with) some new girl, and there I was, a law school student, sitting in my apartment on weekends never doing anything or going anywhere. It was official: my life was boring.
I had some friends; I was even still talking to Brandon. He'd even call me now and then, and we'd talk. That all stopped around the time he moved in with his girlfriend, and around the time Matt came back into my life.
Matt had always been a part of my life. I met him at summer camp back when I was in middle school. While there, I found out that he lived only a town away from where I did, although the summer camp was hours away from where we both lived. After camp let out, we hung out as friends, and even dated casually late in high school. After we'd been dating for awhile, his family moved into the house across the street from us. What luck. We found any and every excuse to hang out after that. We said we were helping each other with homework, tutoring, whatever we could think of.
I dated Matt for awhile, but our parents didn't particularly like that the two of us were dating, so eventually the relationship broke up and we went our separate ways. We both dated other people, although we would always hang out and end up fooling around with each other between relationships. There were even several occasions that I can recall where we'd be fooling around, and one or both of us would be cheating on our significant others at the time. That all lasted until I met Brandon.
While I won't go so far to say that Brandon was insecure, he wasn't crazy about the idea that I still hung out with Matt, especially considering the fact that I had cheated on several of my boyfriends with Matt. Long story short, I never ended up cheating on Brandon with Matt -- I never cheated on Brandon with anyone for that matter - but I largely ignored Matt, or at least, I didn't go out of my way to hang out with him while I was dating Brandon.
The years with Brandon were some of the best years of my life - I was young, in love, and everything was perfect. But nothing good lasts forever, and almost 5 years later, my time with Brandon was over, and those 5 years were reduced to 2 ½ egg boxes worth of memories, which now sit in my closet collecting dust.
The break-up between me and Brandon occurred about the time I entered law school. I knew that law school wasn't going to be easy, but I hardly anticipated that it would be quite as miserable as it really was. It was hell. And I -- still not having learned from some of my past mistakes -- I took all my frustrations and struggles out on Brandon. Ya, needless to say, he was gone from my life within a month or two of my starting law school.
For almost nine months, I sat around, boyfriend-less and miserable. I went to law school, talked with my friends, sometimes went out to dinner with them, but something was missing. My friends said it'd get better, but really, it didn't. I'd gotten to the point where I felt like no one cared. My life seemed to be falling apart in front of my eyes...my GPA went from a 3.97 in my undergrad college where I was a valedictorian to 2.44 in law school...barely in the bottom third of the class. It wasn't that I wasn't trying, I just felt like I no longer had anyone backing me, anyone believing I really could do it, the way I'd had all through undergrad. And I didn't have anyone like that in law school. Whether that's why my GPA dropped or that's just the excuse I came up with, I don't know. But let me tell you, it was much easier in undergrad when I had someone there for me, 24/7. Besides my GPA having gone to crap, I wasn't happy being in law school. I didn't like most of the subjects I was taking, and the only real friend I had was more of a leech that I just couldn't get rid of. But that was life.
Time passed, and although I cried less, I was still very upset about the fact that me and Brandon had broken up. Some people said I was obsessed, and maybe I was, but the break-up really tore my world apart. When I eventually heard the news that Brandon was going to move into a new apartment with his girlfriend, that was it for me. Depressed, unhappy, you name it -- if it was a negative emotion, I felt it.
Nothing could even be done to make me crack a smile, or at least, not for long. It seemed that if anything made me happy, it was over way too quick, or somehow it would remind me of Brandon. I'd go somewhere, and it would occur to me (while there) that me and Brandon were supposed to have gone there, but we never found time. This, of course, ruined my mood for the whole time I was at the place. Random phrases that people would say to me would trigger thoughts in my head which would remind me of something me and Brandon had done, or something we had said. As we had been together for quite some time, almost everything I did somehow had some significance or could make me think of something that related to what used to be "us."
At one point, I decided I should buy a dog, because I thought that maybe a dog would make me happy. I bought a sheltie and named her Kailey. Only after having Kailey about a week did I realize that I bought a dog that was practically a clone of the dog Brandon had owned in high school. I hadn't thought anything about Brandon at the time I was buying the dog, but later I realized that I had a clone of his "Alex"... and of course, that cemented all of my friends' minds that I had lost my mind and was obsessed with Brandon. For awhile, Kailey improved my mood somewhat, but not as much as I had hoped.
The first time I remember actually being "happy" (or at least, "less miserable") about something after the break-up was 9 months after the break-up occurred. One of my previous ex-boyfriends, Matt, had been messaging me on facebook saying I should call him sometime. Now, as I mentioned, I had been ignoring Matt for quite some time, because Brandon was not particularly fond of him. Of course, now that I was no longer dating Brandon, there was no one to care if I hung out with Matt. Or so I thought.
But we'll get to that later. It was a Friday night when I finally decided I wanted to call up Matt and see what he was up to. Turns out, I woke him up, and through our talking, I got to mentioning that he should come to Indianapolis and come hang out with me sometime. As he had that weekend free, he left that night.
Matt didn't arrive at my apartment until about midnight. He pretty much looked like I remembered him -- tall, kind of skinny, dark brown hair, teasing eyes. Since he got in so late, we went to a local sports bar downtown, Jillian's, where we had dinner. While Matt had a beer, I just had a diet coke. I had no intention of getting drunk and accidentally sleeping with Matt. Ya, wait till you hear how that worked out. While we were at Jillian's, Matt noticed crowds of people all walking in one direction, and went outside to ask them where they were going. Turned out, there was another bar, Howl at the Moon, just a little ways down the street. Once we finished eating, we headed to Howl, where Matt convinced me that I should have a few drinks and loosen up. We both had a few beers, and I don't know if it was the beer or what, but a little while into the night, I definitely wanted to kiss Matt (well, I'd probably do more, but I'd start with a kiss). I didn't do anything though, because I was still trying to keep myself from doing anything that would end me up in bed with Matt. We stayed at Jillian's until about 2 a.m., when Matt suggested that we go back to my apartment and watch movies.
As I only had a small apartment, with very little storage space, I had only moved a very small selection of movies there. Matt picked out Coyote Ugly for us to watch, and we settled into the couch to watch the movie. About halfway through the movie, Matt reached out to try to tickle my knee. I don't know why, but ever since I was little, I've had this one ticklish spot on my knees -- and I had forgotten that Matt knew about it. I tried to fight Matt off, but all that did was fuel the fire and make him want to tickle me more.
It was all in good fun. I tried grabbing his arms and holding them away from my knees, but as Matt is quite a bit taller than me, and definitely much stronger, this didn't do much for me. Matt pushed back against my arms, and ended up forcing me off the couch and onto the carpet. We wrestled around for a bit on the carpet, pushing the coffee table clear across the room. Eventually I was able to wriggle my way out from under Matt. When I finally yanked myself back up and sat down on the couch, Matt surprised me by giving me a quick kiss.
I would have kissed him back, but it was such a quick peck that it was over like that, and I never had a chance. Matt acted as if the kiss had never happened, and went back to watching the movie.
It wasn't until we were about ready to hit the hay that anything else happened. Matt had settled down on the larger couch, while I was sitting on the loveseat after the movie had finished. I'm not sure what led into it, but Matt stretched out on the couch and made a comment about how he might as well make himself comfortable.
"Why? Are you gonna sleep there?" I asked.
"What? You gonna let me cuddle with you?" -- I could have dealt without the tone. The tone in his voice was almost one of mocking, which made me mad, and made me wish I hadn't said anything, but then I remembered that I have this bad habit of getting upset over nothing, so I decided to let that one go.
"Sure, you can."