Let me tell you something off the bat: I'm not that religious. Sure, I pray every once in a while, and sometimes go to youth group meetings, but other than that, I really don't practice any religion. I guess you could say I fall under the "Christian" category. That's what I was raised as a child. And when you're a kid, you usually believe whatever your parents believe. Well I'm an adult now, and I don't know what to believe anymore.
Anyway, onto my story...
I was pretty bored one night, and, with nothing better to do, I called up one of my old friends from a youth group I attended a few months back. His name was Jacob, and I was pretty interested in him when we'd hang out at youth group. But then I'd been busy with work and other things, and he'd been busy with his new girlfriend, so I stopped going to youth group and we didn't hang out anymore. I hadn't talked to Jacob since I'd attended a y.g. meeting, so I decided to see what he was up to, and, if he was available, see if he wanted to hang out.
Here's a few things comparisons/dissimilarities about Jacob and I that you should know: 1. He's a 22 year old virgin; I'm a 21 year old non-virgin (but that's another story...). 2. He's an engineering student; I'm a psychology major. 3. He's had probably two serious girlfriends in his life; I've had at least 10 non-serious boyfriends, but none were really that serious (yes, I lost it to a guy that I wasn't serious with).
So, him being the good-Christian-guy that he is, he had the plan that he was going to "save it till marriage". And me being the naughty-not-really-a-Christian-girl that I am, I lost it with some guy I'd known for like a month when I was 18. So, as you can tell, he probably didn't want to have sex with any girl until he was married. But, from the moment that I met him, I had some drive to change that.
Which leads me to this story...
So anyway, I call Jacob up one Friday night in the Spring, at about 7:30pm. He answered his cell on the fifth ring.
"Hello?" I hear his familiar voice answer, and I get the little butterfly feeling in my stomach that I usually get when I talk to a cute guy.
"Hey, Jacob? This is Emma, do you remember me?"
He chuckles. "Of course I remember you, Emma! How are you doing? How's your psycho-career going?" That was a little inside joke we had. When he'd found out that I was a psychology major, he'd come up with a whole bunch of "psycho" jokes and stuff.
"Haha, it's going good, actually. I just took finished all my midterms today, so I'm pretty happy about that." Did I mention that Friday that night was the first night of Spring Break?
"Oh, sweet! Yeah, I had all my midterms during the week, and my last one was last night."
"Cool. Hey, so what are you doing tonight?"
"Uh, well actually I'm not doing anything. Do you wanna hang out or something?"
I laughed, because he'd asked what I was going to ask. "Yeah, sure! What would you like to do? You know, since it's your idea to hang out," I flirted.
He flirted back, saying, "Well, how about we go see a movie?"
I quickly thought about what movies were currently playing in theaters. "Uh, sure! I don't know what's playing right now though. Oh wait! There's that new Bruce Willis movie! We could go see that!"
"Yeah, that looks awesome! What time would you like to go?" I could hear clicking in the background, so I figured he was probably looking up times on the internet.
"Whatever time it's playing." More clicking.
"Well, on the theater's website, it says it's playing at 9pm? So we could see it then, and maybe get some dinner beforehand?"
I was conviently standing by my mirror, so I frantically checked my hair and make-up to see if it was OK, since it sounded like I wouldn't have that much time to get ready before we hung out.
"Yeah, that sounds great! So do you want me to pick you up or do you want to pick me up?"
"I'll drive, it's cool. I'll pick you up in, say, 20 minutes?"
I breathed a sigh of relief, 20 minutes would be plenty of time for me to get into a cute outfit and redo my make-up and do something acceptable with my hair.
"20 minutes sounds great! See ya then!"
"Yeah, see ya!"
I suddenly realized he didn't know where I lived "Hey, wait, Jacob?"
Thankfully he hadn't hung up. "Yeah, I have no clue where you live."
We both cracked up. After I told him where I lived, we said good bye.
As soon as I sat my phone down, I rushed to get ready.
Exactly 20 minutes later, he showed up, ringing my doorbell. That's the awesome thing about Jacob, you can always count on him to be on time.
Anyway, I had decided on wearing just jeans and a cute shirt (I didn't want to go overboard, since this wasn't really a date). Before I answered the door, I quickly spritzed on some awesome smelling perfume, smoothed my hair and clothes, then took a deep breath, trying to calm my fluttery insides.
"Hey, Jacob!" I said, returning the huge grin he gave me.
"Hey, Emma!" He gave me a hug. He smelled so good, I think it was Axe (and I love a man who wears Axe).
We both gave each other a once-over, smiling. Then we laughed, because it was suddenly awkward silence.
"Wow, you look great, Emma." He gave me his award winning smile.
I felt my face heat up. "Thanks, Jacob, so do you."
We stood around, looking at anything but each other.
I cleared my throat. "Shall we?" Jacob said, gesturing to his car.
"We shall," I said, sending him a flirty smile, which he returned.
Once we sat down in his car and were on the road, I was curious to know where we were going for dinner. As if reading my mind, Jacob startled me, saying, "I've always wanted to try the new bar over on 10th street, and I've heard they have some great food, so I figured we could try eating there? If we don't like it, there's a McDonalds a block away." I glanced at him to see if he was joking about the McDonald's part, which, judging from the mischievous grin he had on his face, he must have been.
"Oh come on, haven't you heard that supersizing your meal makes you fatter?"
He gasped, and jokingly said, "Are you calling me fat?"
I laughed, "No! Of course not! You're skinny!"
"Well, it sure seems like you're calling me fat, because you said 'fattER', implying that if we did eat there, I'd get fatter."
I couldn't think of any comebacks, so I just laughed. He joined in.
"Oh, crap, I just passed the bar I think," he said, looking for a place to turn around.
"Well, we could go to McDonalds." I grinned.
"Nah, that's OK. I'd rather get buzzed than get fatter."
Yeah, it surprised me too when I found out that Jacob likes to drink. You'd think that someone like him wouldn't, but hey, Jesus drank wine too, right?
As we walked into the bar, a few guys were coming out of the door. I don't know if it was by instinct or not, but Jacob put his hand on my back, guiding me inside. I smiled back at him. He blushed.
We decided to sit at the bar. He ordered a Mike's Hard Lemonade, and I teased him about getting drunk when he's supposed to be the driver. He took a few drinks of it before he replied back with, "Well, if I get drunk, let's say you're the designated driver. And, if you think I'm too drunk to drive the few blocks away from your home, you could let me stay at your house." I felt my mouth hang open. I would never expect to hear that from Jacob. He saw my stunned expression and his smile grew then suddenly disappeared. "What? You must think I'm a prude or something." He turned and faced the other way, obviously upset by my expression.
"Wait, no, Jacob, I just..." I heard him start laughing. I swatted him. "Don't do that! I thought I seriously pissed you off." He turned back around I pouted, crossing my arms.
He chuckled. "No, it's OK. Everyone thinks that I'm a prude because of my faith." He shrugged and held up his hand when I tried to protest. "But I'm fine with that. Let people think what they want to."
"Wow. That's really cool, Jacob."
He smiled shyly and fiddled with his drink. "So, about me coming over if I get too drunk..."
I laughed loudly. "We'll have to see how drunk you get."