Friday. 8:37pm. hop on the 6 train downtown, transfer at union square for the L.
Its a lot warmer than I had expected. My ipod is essential, as well as my big headphones. It is the soundtrack of my life. Good song. Scanning the platform. pause. nice eyes, big blue eyes really dark hair. awkward hat from the 90's. eye contact. more eye contact. flirting with my eyes. who really cares though, this is the subway, and im on my way to williamsburg to meet a friend from high school. Well apparently he cares. He came halfway across the platform just to get on the same car as me. how lovely. okay, now here's the important part. don't make it obvious. stand casually against the door, across from him, quick small glances. maybe a little quirky smile. well this will all end in a few minutes, my stop is next. turn around. smile. leave. strut your thing. walk confidently up the stairs and outside. he was cute. but hes gone.
wrong. i turn around as i pick up my phone to see him standing there. he followed me off the train. smile. giggle. and walk. he happens to be walking right next to me, as if we were traveling together. how nice. imagine. maybe hes someone important. we will have to wait to find out later. smile again.
"what are you doing in brooklyn tonight?" he says, with a little hint of nerves in his voice.
"meeting a friend from boarding school. yourself?"
"going to this bar called speakeasy, then to some party for my friends band, you should join us."
"maybe i will, but first there is a blunt calling my name."
corner. pause. he asks for my number, he then proceeds to call me so that i have his. how interesting. im clearly thinking about him already as he leans in, puts his arm around me and kisses my cheek. i smile, wave and continue on my way. he was gorgeous. really tall. blue eyes. black hair. an odd sense of style. (but that can be dealt with later) he is the boy i dreamed of when i was little that way we would have kids with blue eyes no matter what. don't all little girls picture their dream husband? finally, I could see my friend across the street. hug it out. we walked back to his apartment drank a brooklyn lager( it was gross and i hated it) smoked a little. all the while. this mystery train boy. lets call him L train. was texting me.
me: ps. your gorgeous.
L train: right back at ya. am i going to see you.
me: im going to be brutally honest and tell you that i wanted to kiss you on the train.
L train: i felt the same way.
me: you should've kissed me.
L train: now ill make a point of doing it later when i see you.
This was all so crazy, I hadn't done something like this in over a year. how lame and boring had i really become. things like this give me a rush and i love it. my friend wanted to go eat so we left and walked to some small burger joint a few blocks away. he wanted to go to another friends house at some party that sounded horrible. I couldn't get this boy from the L train out of my head and the lame party was not on my agenda. We decided to split up, I would go meet this random stranger from the L train and my friend would go to his lame party and we would reconnect later. (or would we?) I texted L train.
me: where are you. what are you doing. im done here.
L train: about to walk to this party. meet me there.
me: is it far?
L train: no and it will be worth it.
mmm. incentive. would it really be worth it? (YES). I started walking, after my friend pointed me in the direction. a few minutes later, my friend saw me again i was walking in the opposite direction. So finally after about 15 minutes of a far walk, quick batty smoke in the middle of a random brooklyn neighborhood. I was at the place he told me to be. But where was he? I waited. I texted him. he was on his way. Was this a horrible idea? no. it will all be fine. I felt the butterflies in my stomach. A feeling that had been absent for so long. I looked up the street. I saw a kid I knew from long ago, that hated me. But don't worry the feeling was mutual, so I turned my head and texted L train. He was almost here. The butterflies intensified, and I could feel myself blushing. It was now 10:45pm. I saw him come around the corner. There he was. That perfection. That random stranger from the L train. We walked around the corner. There were kids everywhere, and bikes. There were lots of bikes everywhere. We walked right in to this big hot sweaty room, everyone was drinking and dancing. We walked to the DJ booth and they said their hellos. I turned to my left and I thought I saw someone I knew. But it couldn't be him, what would he be doing here? I found out later that the boy I saw was him. My ex boyfriend from several years back. How odd. Back to the party. L train handed me a red cuyp and poured me a cup of Bacardi. no mixer. just bacardi. ewww. Bacardi is the worst rum ever. I drank it anyway, I felt the burn and loved it. Blunt was lit and passed around. We walked back down a few stairs and settled against a wall. He pushed up against me. grabbed my neck. and kissed me. I wish I could say it was the kiss I had been waiting for. It surely wasn't. It was a good kiss, but it was not a great kiss. I hoped for something better but this is what I got, and I was going to make it work. Drink drink drink. more more more. i could feel my head getting heavy. The bacardi was kicking in. We danced a little bit. We went outside, got another dutch, some more liquor and as we returned to the party, the party was moving to the roof. L train was drunk and happy and trying to be a slick little boy.
" let's go smoke our own blunt on my roof."
me: sounds like a plan.
L train: okay then, lets go.
i smiled. he said his goodbyes and we disapeared into brooklyn. I came to find out he lived not far from me, and was still living at home with his parents. well maybe he had cool parents. oh well. i was in it to win it at this point. we were walking. nothing looked familiar. we took a wrong turn. we were too distracted flirting, nudging, kissing. we found some other train station and hopped on the train. It was a J train. when we got to manhattan i got ansy, we left and hopped into a cab. we got up to his block. bought beer and went into his building. it was sketchy. i felt like i was back in 9th grade. sneaking in. i took my shoes off and quietly ran into his room. the rest of the night was somewhat blurry. the sex was sloppy and not very memorable. except for the bruise on my back. we snuggled up to each other and fell asleep.
9:45 am morning came around. my phone was dead. my mother was going to be so pissed. oops. we had morning sex, and i left he liked me he said. we had plans for that night. I had to attend a wedding first. i was excited. my dress was gorgeous and my shoes were better. So we kissed, I snuck back out of his house and took a cab back to my house. yelling ensued.
stay tuned for the adventures of the wedding and saturday night.
p.s. it turned out much better than friday.