Let me tell you something off the bat: I'm not that religious. Sure, I pray every once in a while, and sometimes go to youth group meetings, but other than that, I really don't practice any religion. I guess you could say I fall under the "Christian" category. That's what I was raised as a child. And when you're a kid, you usually believe whatever your parents believe. Well I'm an adult now, and I don't know what to believe anymore.
Anyway, onto my story...
I was pretty bored one night, and, with nothing better to do, I called up one of my old friends from a youth group I attended a few months back. His name was Jacob, and I was pretty interested in him when we'd hang out at youth group. But then I'd been busy with work and other things, and he'd been busy with his new girlfriend, so I stopped going to youth group and we didn't hang out anymore. I hadn't talked to Jacob since I'd attended a y.g. meeting, so I decided to see what he was up to, and, if he was available, see if he wanted to hang out.
Here's a few things comparisons/dissimilarities about Jacob and I that you should know: 1. He's a 22 year old virgin; I'm a 21 year old non-virgin (but that's another story...). 2. He's an engineering student; I'm a psychology major. 3. He's had probably two serious girlfriends in his life; I've had at least 10 non-serious boyfriends, but none were really that serious (yes, I lost it to a guy that I wasn't serious with).
So, him being the good-Christian-guy that he is, he had the plan that he was going to "save it till marriage". And me being the naughty-not-really-a-Christian-girl that I am, I lost it with some guy I'd known for like a month when I was 18. So, as you can tell, he probably didn't want to have sex with any girl until he was married. But, from the moment that I met him, I had some drive to change that.
Which leads me to this story...
So anyway, I call Jacob up one Friday night in the Spring, at about 7:30pm. He answered his cell on the fifth ring.
"Hello?" I hear his familiar voice answer, and I get the little butterfly feeling in my stomach that I usually get when I talk to a cute guy.
"Hey, Jacob? This is Emma, do you remember me?"
He chuckles. "Of course I remember you, Emma! How are you doing? How's your psycho-career going?" That was a little inside joke we had. When he'd found out that I was a psychology major, he'd come up with a whole bunch of "psycho" jokes and stuff.
"Haha, it's going good, actually. I just took finished all my midterms today, so I'm pretty happy about that." Did I mention that Friday that night was the first night of Spring Break?
"Oh, sweet! Yeah, I had all my midterms during the week, and my last one was last night."
"Cool. Hey, so what are you doing tonight?"
"Uh, well actually I'm not doing anything. Do you wanna hang out or something?"
I laughed, because he'd asked what I was going to ask. "Yeah, sure! What would you like to do? You know, since it's your idea to hang out," I flirted.
He flirted back, saying, "Well, how about we go see a movie?"
I quickly thought about what movies were currently playing in theaters. "Uh, sure! I don't know what's playing right now though. Oh wait! There's that new Bruce Willis movie! We could go see that!"
"Yeah, that looks awesome! What time would you like to go?" I could hear clicking in the background, so I figured he was probably looking up times on the internet.
"Whatever time it's playing." More clicking.
"Well, on the theater's website, it says it's playing at 9pm? So we could see it then, and maybe get some dinner beforehand?"
I was conviently standing by my mirror, so I frantically checked my hair and make-up to see if it was OK, since it sounded like I wouldn't have that much time to get ready before we hung out.
"Yeah, that sounds great! So do you want me to pick you up or do you want to pick me up?"
"I'll drive, it's cool. I'll pick you up in, say, 20 minutes?"
I breathed a sigh of relief, 20 minutes would be plenty of time for me to get into a cute outfit and redo my make-up and do something acceptable with my hair.
"20 minutes sounds great! See ya then!"
"Yeah, see ya!"
I suddenly realized he didn't know where I lived "Hey, wait, Jacob?"
Thankfully he hadn't hung up. "Yeah, I have no clue where you live."
We both cracked up. After I told him where I lived, we said good bye.
As soon as I sat my phone down, I rushed to get ready.
Exactly 20 minutes later, he showed up, ringing my doorbell. That's the awesome thing about Jacob, you can always count on him to be on time.
Anyway, I had decided on wearing just jeans and a cute shirt (I didn't want to go overboard, since this wasn't really a date). Before I answered the door, I quickly spritzed on some awesome smelling perfume, smoothed my hair and clothes, then took a deep breath, trying to calm my fluttery insides.
"Hey, Jacob!" I said, returning the huge grin he gave me.
"Hey, Emma!" He gave me a hug. He smelled so good, I think it was Axe (and I love a man who wears Axe).
We both gave each other a once-over, smiling. Then we laughed, because it was suddenly awkward silence.
"Wow, you look great, Emma." He gave me his award winning smile.
I felt my face heat up. "Thanks, Jacob, so do you."
We stood around, looking at anything but each other.