I Hate Being Right?

Disney's picture

In my last entry I *glazed* over a mostly entirely random acquaintance that happened to be a male, was easy on the eyes and chatty enough. This individual also happened to give me a desire-infusing kiss on the cheek before I darted away for the night.

Well, in that same entry I speculated about why he might have done it at that instant.

My community is definitely not anti-gay, and though the school board is pro-GLBT and makes sure each classroom has a GLBT triangle mini-poster going on... a boy the same age as me kissing me like that in near practical public and with months of school to go still seemed odd!

So this afternoon I just went for a drive with a co-worker friendly and got us stumbling around the topic of the other night and who was who, since this friendly female co-worker happens to have worked there for over a year now.

To my dismay and extreme interest, I learn that my lovely boy happens to live in Toronto and used to live here but moved a year ago. My inside (ice cream with lovelyboy AHHHH my mind spins) scoop girl tells me that he is a family-friend nephew type person to the owner of the place where we work and she worked with him before and that 'weirdly, he reminds me of you!' (as in ME)!

So I don't live in Toronto, which is the gay capital of Canada... and I could argue that it's the gay capital for the planet Earth. I live 45 mins to an hour away in a comely suburb. Knowing that a lot of Toronto teens find it 'easier' to come out in such a GLBT-filled city sort of instantly explained why he might have kissed me, so score one.

Then she went on to say that he's beginning his semester in Rome for foreign-based credits. Uuuuuuuuuh WHAT?! The thing is that we have the same type of program (MEI is one of the groups that do it here) which allows students to take semesters or credits or do the summertime version in Europe or South America. Therefore it's not unlikely that hundreds of other schools in Ontario have it available too. And the boy that kissed me may have been motivated to do so because he plans to fly off for 6 months or more.

Well damn. I was a bit floored by her saying that even though I wouldn't REALLY have expected anything to develop out of what happened... but it seemed pretty likely to me? She didn't remember for sure when he was flying out and I can probably attain his number or e-mail easily now that I know WHO he is and where he goes to school... but I'm not 100% sure I want to.

If I do - will I be nearly as appealing as I happened to be in that magical moment he took and I went with a few nights ago? Does he already HAVE a boyfriend in Toronto and just did it spur of the moment? Is he even more than bicurious??

I want to call him to talk and see if anything WOULD happen, but I feel like it would hurt a lot to have him avoid meeting up. Or, if we did meet up and something happened... then he'd be gone for 6+ months!

And then there's Facebook... which he has. Hmm, for some reason if I were to ever have a significant other, I'd find it weird to be on Facebook with them just because of friendly territory or something.

I find it a minute bit funny that I was correct about the potential motivation behind the kiss. I'd like to know if I was wholely correct though, he must've liked something else about me to do that but mmm, I can't even buck up the courage to get more intimately VERBAL with my school crush - but if I were bound to leave for months in a few days, I'd do it without reserve.

Ugh and then WTF do I say if I call him up? I know I can pull it off in the right mood, but right now it's striking me as SO odd to say: Hey lovelyboy, it's me, dashingboy who you pecked on the cheek last week! So, how are you?

Ok, that would really appeal to me. But I don't know how far it would go. And, hi, I don't know about me going in to Toronto solo at ALL thanks to my mother being in denial and now back and practically forgetting I told her I was gay, and my dad just being himself. And if he came here, well everything seems ok for me going out around hereabouts but I'm fairly certain I'd be insecure about being seen in public as a gay couple.

And then there's the whole thing about me having PHYSICAL insecurities. Not just in being physical per say but with my own body yikes! I know I look good enough in my outfits and with a shirt halfway off but mmm I feel like a total twink or underdeveloped boy in some ways! And nooo, it's not about size hahahah, but I feel damned by hormones in some ways and only marginally helped by them in others. And that sincerely has nothing to do with sex, just sexual *appeal*. And I don't even know... ugh, I want to give lovely boy a kiss of my own or have dinner with him or just take it super slow but the fact that he was that impulsive and that I can be so impulsive at times makes me think it wouldn't be slow.

And that makes me laugh a bit too, since I'm WTF about this whole thing. If I somehow commandeer his contact info and basically get a hello&goodbye just before he leaves for Rome I might feel crushed a bit, but if I don't call then am I better off feeling hopeful? UGH UGH UGH.

At any rate, I'm still O-M-G I Want More.

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5thstory's picture

I would give it a chance and

I would give it a chance and ring him...whatever happens will be better than anything, at least you won't regret not acting in the future. Anyways, if you were as good to know he may be leaving the country, you'll probably be good enough to be able to 'read' him after little time on the phone. Then, when you find out what he intends to do, make your mind to jump in, or stay ashore. Whatever happens, good luck!

" . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." Charles Dickens

Disney's picture

Thanks, now go eat something

Thanks, now go eat something sugary!

That would be great to see/hear how well I 'read' him on the phone hmm. I just had the zany realization that I shouldn't be stupid enough to assume that what one person says is entirely correct - he might not be leaving the country at all!

Well, I don't have anything to really indicate that as being correct, but my hopeful side says that asking about him via others or getting his number and calling him... or adding him on Facebook and PMing him might work.

Except not really. Scratch it all. *Sigh* I want to kiss him and be kissed again and not feel like it was a total fluke or something.

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5thstory's picture

I would go for Facebook. Go,

I would go for Facebook. Go, get him!

" . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." Charles Dickens

jeff's picture

Hmm....

My conclusion from this is that you suck at playing him in your mental version of your relationship.

So, perhaps, and this is a stretch... you should play, like, *your* role in the relationship. See, whatever you do when you play your role is the right move, since you can't screw up playing yourself (which is not to say that you can't screw up, by any means, heh).

If you want to add him on Facebook and become friends or just say, 'why did you wait so long to kiss me? If you started earlier, you could have had more for longer,' or whatever else you decide to write to him.

Life has a lot of twists and turns. He might live in Toronto normally, be in Rome now, or whatever. You may go to the same college, end up living in the same town after that, who knows? Never any risk in developing a friendship. And you're allowed to have a 'we'll possibly explore things further if we are in the same city' clause in the friendship.

So, think short term. What do you want to do now? You're already mourning six months apart from someone you're not even with yet. You have to cross these bridges when you come to them.

First step, re-establish contact. Once you do that, the conversation and direction will become easier, because then you can concentrate on solely playing *your* role in the proceedings, and he'll actually play his (rather than you interacting with a mental projection of him in your head).

Much less work, and far great potential reward.

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"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there." -- Josh Billings.

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Morgan's picture

Go For It

If it works, great. If not, life goes on. Why not have an intellectual first date, like a museum trip followed by a dinner at a small restaurant? Check out how compatable your personalities are. Take it from there, fast or slow.