Restaurant boy who was crushing on me texted me the other night (must've got my number off the employee list). He hasn't forgotten about me. Oh dear. I have a bad feeling I'm gonna have to hurt his feelings sometime soon. Not only that, I'll have to do it in Spanish. In not-so-good Spanish. What would it be like to be gently rejected in your own language, by a girl who doesn't have a good handle on it anymore? How terrible!
I mean, I was temporarily flattered for just a minute when I first found out about it, but I was LEAVING. I have LEFT. I am GONE. I'm not planning on ever really going back.
I'm in my beloved self-proclaimed hometown with YSB in my class every other day and living just around the corner. Not to mention tall, dark, and handsome Blue-Green Eyes, whom I was teaching to dance (in my break between classes, I go help teach beginning country swing), who happens to be YSB's roommate this year. I've had a little simultaneous crush on both those boys since we had almost all of our classes together this last spring, so I can't help harboring a tiny hope that maybe this fall something will happen with either one of them. I'm a girl who loves a good crush. Sue me.
So there is no room to be trying to avoid the shy flirtations of a boy in a restaurant that I really don't plan on returning to work for (except possibly over Christmas break). It would be hard to even try to be friends. I'm hoping he doesn't text me anymore, even though I told him he could (because he asked), because I'm nice and I don't know how to say no.
I know I can't get ahead of myself, because nothing has happened, but my mind has gone into overdrive, seeing all the ways I have gotten/will get myself into trouble and now must think of all the different possible ways of getting out of it. And based on past experience, trying to get out of trouble and making peace only ever made things worse.
Terrifying, but don't you think?!
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So... YSB is roommates with a certain someone with ice blue/green eyes!?!?!? Or is this someone else...?
If I knew spanish, I would help you out.
I do know Spanish...
I had a similar situation with a coworker. He thought because we were texting that we were going to date. This could also be the case with Mr. Shy, so be warned. He probably thinks you're into him because guys are kinda dense like that. Squash it as soon as possible. Sometimes, yes, you must be a little mean.
I know where you were coming from with your concerns, Chess. :-o Definitely been there, done that. Granted, it's usually with men who have 10+ years on me, but still... It's like each little thing you say "yes" to (taking lunch break together, texting, hanging out) encourages them to go further, and yet you just want to put an end to it, LOL. You start to run out of excuses for when they ask you to do stuff with them, and are all, "Argh! Take a hint already." D:
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