I returned home from work on the Monday, having that day informed the girl that I had been seeing -- not seriously dating, just seeing on and off that I saw no future for us, and that I thought we should leave it at that. She'd texted me back, telling me the sort of things I'd expected to hear, and also that she had fallen in love with me, which I didn't expect to hear. Anyway, that was that, and I'd figured it was back to the drawing board.
I'd logged onto my PC at home, and checked my email, my inbox contained a message telling me that someone was trying to contact me from the personals website I'd registered with a month before, and through which I'd met the girl I'd let down that day.
It was with a sense of doubt that I logged on to the website -- what sort of ugly, ageing, weirdo was this going to be, who was trying to contact me?
What met my eyes, was a vision. Her profile pictures showed that she was clearly a stunner -- long dark hair, beautiful smile, and eyes that made me melt instantly. Her message was along the lines of 'I like your picture and your profile, I'd like to chat'. The picture I had used on the website was one taken by my last serious girlfriend, while we'd been on holiday in Gran Canaria, 5 months previous, and instantly, any reservations as to the PC-ness of using such an image were gone -- if it could attract such a beautiful woman, it didn't matter anymore.
I quickly typed out a message, conscious of not wanting to appear too eager, but containing sufficient enthusiasm to let her know that I too found her very attractive, and that I too, would like to chat.
I left it at that, and sorted out the things one does on returning home from work, got changed, sorted out my evening meal, and opened a bottle of wine -- all the time wondering what on earth this beautiful creature had seen in my pathetic little blurb I'd written about myself and the picture showing me stood outside a small apartment in the Spanish evening. She looked very well to do -- maybe she's a professional type, divorced and with cash to spare, and fancies a bit of rough, perhaps she's been put up to it by one of her mates -- see if you can pull this daft looking one, and string him along, just for a laugh, or possibly she did actually find me attractive, and somewhere in my words she'd seen the honest, self-effacing but loving side of my nature that I so wanted to share with Miss Right. Could it be her?
Meal eaten, and dishes left in the sink -- I will do them tomorrow -- I returned to my PC, to see if there'd been a response. There was. And in it, she'd put her email address, and asked if I wanted to log on to an instant chat session to talk to her. The one she'd mentioned wasn't one that I used, but I replied yes anyway, and hastily set about downloading it.