Anyway, a few months go by and she'll randomly like my photos but never comments. It was probably a few months after that when curiosity finally got the better of me.
"Who are you? You've been following and liking my posts for a while and you're not at all familiar to me. Do we know each other or... What?"
She replied a few hours later and in a roundabout way said no, we don't know one another and she just randomly started following people when she started her account shortly before she started following me. Ok, cool. Welcome.
Another couple of weeks go by and something in her profile caught my attention and I asked her about it. That ended up with the two of us chatting about everything under the sun for the rest of the day. Literally 8 hours later before we really tapered off our convo. And we got to talking a lot over the next few days. Then she took a little bit of a somber mood in her messages and posts online. So I asked what was bothering her. That opened the floodgates. The long, slow death of a boyfriend six years ago and her recent beau of 4 years just up and left her for a younger girl, moved out of state. And that just happened 5 days ago. Ouch... That sucks. Sorry to hear it. I genuinely felt bad for her. But she's going to stand strong and refuses to be the one to make contact. He left the state with that bitch, I'm not going to put up with that. He needs to respect me. Awesome, yes, that's great to hear you're already moving on. And on we went.
After maybe another week or so, I'm kinda feeling maybe I want to meet up with her. She honestly seems like a decent girl with a spunky attitude so I asked her out.
Like a coffee date?
Sure
Yeah, I can do coffee.
Scheduling was the issue. She works, hustles, a lot so it would be a couple of weeks before we can meet. Date is set. That was a little over 2 weeks ago. So tomorrow, Saturday the 9th is our date.
Then something happened... Of course it would.
A couple of nights after we picked a day to meet, she tells me she has a confession to make. Something AWFUL she just did and her bestie is coming over to help fix the situation.
What is it?
I broke my no contact rule. I think I might have just gone psycho-ex crazy.
Apparently she called and left messages. Plural. To her ex. Telling him he needs to get his ass back to California. He needs to break off contact with that whore, among other things, I imagine. And then she asked me if I had any great advice for her right then? Words of encouragement?
All I could say was, 'Why?"
She ignored that and went on talking about it and awkwardly transitioning to other topics and as soon as she paused, I asked again, 'Why?"
She and I have had a couple of exchanges since then, 2 weeks ago. I can't even call them conversations, just a few texts back and forth. She also significantly dropped off from posting on social media. From 6 per day to once every 3rd day.
I'm pretty sure we're not even going to mention our coffee date tomorrow if we do speak again.
And all I'm left thinking is, I dodged a bullet in that one. From zero to crazy psycho-ex in a heartbeat. How much worse is it in real life?
And part of me wonders if that other dude really bring his ass back to California for that!?
