Let's fast forward a bit of the replay of the first night Calvin and I hung out. Calvin left me sitting on the stairs to join the guys and continued to show off his skating talent for a while. Soon after Janet came back over and sat down beside me.
Janet told me that Calvin asked Jay if I had a boyfriend and was interested in me before Jay introduced us at school. I let Janet know how I was feeling about Calvin. I told her I was infatuated with the way Calvin smiled at me. I did complain to Janet at first how I noticed Calvin was a tad too cocky for my liking. Then I explained how I oddly found him entertaining and cute.
Then Janet wanted to mix us a couple drinks, so we walked into the house and headed for Tom's kitchen.
"Besides you and Jay talking about my business, did you two figure out your own feelings yet?" This time poking my nose in their business, knowing they get annoyed with me every time I ask them this question. Although her back was facing me, I could tell I hit a nerve with her. Especially the sound the ice cubes made as she threw them into the glass cup.
After mixing herself a drink she turned around and faced me. With the look she had given me that day Janet could have turned me to stone.
"Stop asking me! How many times do I have to explain to you that Jay doesn't like me, like that? We are buddies, that's all we will ever be Hannah." Feeling flustered with Hannah, sometimes I think it's because of her that I started to have a crush on Jay. It didn't start until she told me she thought we would make a cute couple. To be honest I would have never thought about that on my own. It's like she planted a seed in my brain and over the summer it has been germinating.
"I have a gut feeling about you two and usually I am right about these things. I promise to lay off the subject. I will just sit back and quietly wait and watch to see what happens. So enough about you! (Laughing hoping to lighten the mood.) Now that I told you about my first impression of Calvin, it's time for you to tell me yours." Waiting for Janet to respond I grabbed a handful of potato chips from the bowl that had already been set out on the kitchen table.
Munching on a chip, as if I am waiting for the show to begin. I think I know what she will have to say already. That's why I purposely left out some of the information about how I was feeling. Placing her drink on the table. She walked back over to the counter and grabbed another cup and filled it with ice.
Before Janet could tell me about her thoughts on Calvin, the guys came busting through the door. I could feel something was up when Jay told me he needed to speak to me for a minute, alone. Then all the guys left the room and headed upstairs except for Jay who was waiting for me in the living room with Calvin.
Janet overheard him while bringing me my drink of Rum and coke. She placed it down in front of me and sat down across the table. Janet was guzzling her drink fast compared to the rate she normally would drink it.
"What do you think he needs to talk to me about? He already talked to me about what's his name earlier. So, it can't be about that. Maybe I'm right and he is going to ask me about you." Making sure to whisper so that the guys can't hear me from the other room. Janet in mid glug chokes on her drink and her eyes bulge out in fear.
"Stop it, you are freaking me out! I doubt it, I'm guessing he is going to ask you if you like Calvin. I bet Calvin asked Jay to ask you if you liked him or not. Think about it, I'm sure they were all out there shooting the shit together. Then Jay comes in and right away says he needs to talk to you for a minute. Come on, we all know that line right before a friend asks you if you like so and so. Hell, we have all been that friend that says I need to talk to you before we ask the very same question." Leaning across the table as I whisper back to her. Noticing that I have made her nervous, as I sit back and watch her swig down her rum and coke.
"Oh boy, I'm going to sneak out the back door! There is no reason for him to ask me that because Jay already figured it out on his own, that I liked him." As I headed for the door, Janet at this point was laughing at me as if I were joking. Not realizing I was being serious; I wanted to vanish.
Thanks to Janet's laughing I was never able to make my escape. The guys must have been wondering what was so funny because they rounded the corner before I had time to open the door. I had been cornered with nowhere to run to now.
Jay took me aside into the hall by the back bedroom away from the kitchen. Janet got out of dodge and ran up to Tom's room leaving Calvin in the kitchen by himself. Which in return made me more anxious. Why didn't he go upstairs with the rest of them? Now I Know that this had all been planned out beforehand. And him sitting in the kitchen all alone now, was all the confirmation I needed to come to this conclusion.
"What did you want to talk to me about that couldn't wait till later anyway? Is this a setup, because it's starting to feel like one." Accusing Jay, I rolled my eyes up at him angrily. I knew in my gut what he was about to ask me. My only real problem was how was I going to answer him.
"Don't get mad at me! I'm just the go between, and I told him I would see what you thought about him. We both know you are digging him, but I didn't tell him that. He asked me to ask you out for him if you said you were into him. You know how I feel about the whole situation. But I told him I would ask you and I did, now it's between you two." A look of dread appeared across her face as she realized I was leaving her alone to go and talk with him. I don't think she knows the answer herself. Which means he might still have a chance because she didn't say no right away.
I will never forget the way Jay just fled up the stairs abandoning me in the hall. There I was all alone left in such an awkward position to be put in.
Hesitantly I knew what I had to do, and the first step was for me to meet HIM in the kitchen. I guess there was no way to avoid the inevitable, even though I did my best too. Part of me thinks I was being possessed by another version of myself. And that me knew I had already made a promise to stroll down a path with this other being.
Although at the same time the human aspect was kicking and screaming inside me. Somehow knowing I was going to get burned from playing with this fire.
There I was standing only a foot or two away from Calvin. He was leaning against the counter beside the sink with his arms crossed just staring at me. He must have sensed my mood as I walked into the room. Because he reflected it right back at me with an attitude of his own.
It's comical when I go back and recall the conversation we had right before we ended up dating. Here is the recap.
"So..." Was the first word out of his mouth.
"So, what?" I responded. He came off acting like a dickhead. Was that what he was going to lead with, so. I couldn't hide my irritation at his behavior.
"What's your answer?" He puts his hands behind him holding on to the edge of the countertop.
"I can't believe you didn't have the balls to ask me yourself! You come off as a very confident person but are you really?" No longer leaning on the countertop, he stood up straight and walked over to me. In the middle of the kitchen.
"Usually, I am but I was told you can't be charmed with good looks. I have been told 95 percent of the time you say no! My ego couldn't ask and take the chance you would reject me." Still, he tried to charm my ass with his intoxicating smile.
"Usually, I do and by the way it's more like 98 percent of the time. The one thing they did get right though is I can't be swayed by good looks." Full disclosure at this point in the conversation I was sitting on the fence. While the voice in my head was trying to reason with me reminding me that there is something different about this one. I could tell I was starting to get on his last nerve. He took his hat off his head and ran his hands through his hair before turning his hat around and placing it backwards on his head.
"You are killing me Hannah, are you, or aren't you?" He asked me with a chuckle.
"What do you think, I'm standing here aren't I?" Finding this whole conversation amusing I giggled.
"That's not an answer Hannah, stop beating around the bush with me." He shook his head at me like I was driving him crazy.
Then my next response came from my mouth, but it felt as if I was a puppet and someone else was speaking for me.
"Actions speak louder than words! Otherwise, you would be standing here alone right now." Oh, shit what did they just say! What does that mean?
"For real! Wow, did you have to make me sweat it out that long? Just so you know Hannah, I don't make it a habit to ask girls I just met to be my girlfriend." He had the biggest smile on his face, felt like he was rubbing it in that he had won me over.
"Now don't go getting a big head on me. But I want you to know I don't make it a habit to have boyfriends! The only reason I said yes is because your eyes spoke to me and that has never happened to me before." I remember feeling so embarrassed when I told him the truth.
"I felt something weird like that too. That's why I asked you out. Jay told me I had good odds then told me it was 50/50 (he laughs) Then he told me most guys have a 5 % chance of you saying yes and I should be happy with the 50/50 odds in my favor." We both went silent for a moment and just looked at one another. I sensed we were both thinking the same exact thing, what have we gotten ourselves into.
Now that you know how Calvin and I became a couple it's time to fast forward this story again.
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