#8 My Date Played Me... Hard

Photography: Dalal on Deviantart
That is me in the front, awkward no?

The Meet-Cute: Who says once you're in the friend zone that you can't get out? Ok, sometimes - but not the case here. We met freshman year in class. I noticed him first the day that he leaned his chair up against the back wall during class and fell asleep, causing his chair and himself to crash to the ground. Nice introduction huh?

The In-between: We stayed friends all through out college; getting lunch, playing sports, hanging out at bars, hanging out as a group with our significant others. Anyway, there came a time when both of us were single at the same time and we decided to date. Movies, dinners, hang outs, bars, all that jazz.

The Date: I decided to ask him to Formal (my senior year formal - in my opinion, kind of a big deal in sorority land. It costs as much, if not more, than a wedding) as my date. We weren't "exclusive" because he told me he wasn't quite ready for a relationship. Which I understood and respected. He'd been with his ex for several years and we started dating a few weeks after they broke up.

Formal = awesome. We all had tons of fun. Dancing, gambling, eating, drinking.

The Aftermath: We hang out a few times after Formal but just that same casual/dating atmosphere. Though I don't want to undermine the fact that he made it clear that we were more than friends. About a week after Formal, his Facebook status changes to "in a relationship". Damn social networking. Strange right? I mean, we've been continuing to date this past week but he just told me it was too soon, and why would he change his status without asking me first? Maybe because he wasn't suddenly in a relationship with me but with another girl that he was dating at the same time. And the icing on the cake? She was my roommate's co-worker. Awkward.