Night at Roxanne's

When I left the bar that night, I immediately got a text from SPP. The kid's bold when he wants to be, that's for sure. "Elise?" "Yes?" "Hi." "Hello." "I am going to save you in my phone and in my heart." So we started a bit of a text romance that evening. The next day he kept me company on gchat while I was in my classes and he was at work. Since my girlfriends and I were going out that night, we had concocted a bit of a plan to get everyone out together.

After much confusion, jello shots with the girls at Millie & Als, and shitty texting on Pat's part, we all ended up at Roxanne's in AdMo. I showed up with my roommates and some other friends, including Eric. Now Eric is one of my best friends at law school, and well, he apparently gets me in trouble with boys. What I mean is: boys are intimidated by us or something - they think we're together/get the wrong impression a lot. So when we walked into Roxanne's & I introduced SPP to Eric, Pat left & walked downstairs to Brass Monkey. Turns out he thought I had shown up to meet up him with another boy in tow...riiiight.

So that night we talked and shot the shit and he kept touching my legs, claiming to try to "warm them up." We had some definite chemistry and I was having a good time. He suggested we get out of there - we had talked about staying up until 4 or 5am in one of those great late-night conversations of which I'm so fond. "And if we decide to make out a little b/c we feel like that's what we wanna do, then you know, that's what we'll do." I'm not one to bring a boy home...at least I didn't see myself as one. This whole single game was still new to me, so I had new rules to make. So, I told him we could go back to my place, but that it wasn't going to be "that way." With the parameters set, we grabbed a cab and Pat immediately started kissing me inside it, distracting both of us from the cabbie trying to tell us that he wouldn't take us where we wanted to go. Whoops.

Another cab later, with less kissing and more talking to the Ethiopian cab driver about runners (Pat ran track in his day), and we ended up at my place. We made out on the couch, giggling constantly. We heard the girls come home a bit later and ran upstairs to my room giggling. We put on PJs, hopped in bed and ended up talking and kissing until 4am, just like we'd said. The next morning involved getting some breakfast together before he headed to the metro, and that was that. We seemed pretty into each other. I didn't know where this was going, but I knew I was gonna have some fun for sure.