I love sundays.

sitting in borders with renee, we've been here since they opened and we'll be here still as the hours float by on the jazz they're playing over the loudspeaker. I know I haven't written in awhile, this is not because I have nothing to write about it is because so much has been going on.

It started the last week of september, and I hope it never ends. I had convinced my parents to let Renee and Madison, her woman-in-tow, come up to my house, I also had to convince renee which angered her mother, but that's beside the point. The only condition was we had to run to the grocery store before we came up. Then renee had the brilliant idea of bringing her boyfriend up too, needless to say I was freaking out a little but in the end I agreed. At choicemart she called her boyfriend, sean, and we headed up to his house.

I suppose the whole sean-renee thing needs some explaining, so bear with me as I backstory, because it actually has alot to do with the rest of my story.

Earlier that fateful september I was slaving away at the video store, renee and madison were with me (they were my ride to work), when two guys walked in. One of them, Sean, I had never seen before, renee took an instant liking to him and madison got his number for her and the rest is, well, history. The other guy, Mike, was a frequent customer and a dedicated fee-payer. We had, on occasion, exchanged playful banter and movie reviews and I had developed a little bit of a crush on him. Of course, to the best of my knowledge, he had a girlfriend. So I left it at that.

And, with that out of the way, I shall continue my story.

Now, it just so happens, that on the ride up to sean's house I mention my little crush, and find out they live in the same house, and he's broken up with his girlfriend. May I point out that I am not really very attractive, at least, I don't think so, and that day I was looking far from my best. So, I panicked. We pull into sean's driveway and, as luck would have it, mike's just about to leave. The process of which was hindered by renee parking directly behind him. Then Sean comes and everybody decides to get out and play video games. I am hell bent on staying in that car, saying I need to get home and the ice cream is melting and whatnot. There I am sitting in the car when I see mike. So does renee, and then she does something I will be forever grateful to her for, she tells mike he has to go and say hi to the girl in the car. He recognized me after a second and we started joking, I finally get out of the car and everyone decides to go. To my house.

Now, I'm still not quite clear on how we arrived at this course of action, from what I gathered, mike and Jesse, another housemate, were going to Ali'i drive to "pick up some older chicks", the next thing I know they're pulling us over on the road asking if they can come up. I finally caved, and we all agreed on meeting in the parking lot in front of the video store. They were going to buy alcohol, cigarettes and condoms and I had some business to take care of. Of course, they took much longer than I expected and sean went up to check on them, then I freaked out some more. When we finally got back on the road, three girls in our car and three guys in the car behind us, I was resigned to my fate, death by parents.

They followed us in the gate and up to the culdesac and we piled into the toyota, guys in back, and with one final "just don't make any noise when we get up there", we headed up the hill. In the driveway, they all jump out and hide behind the truck, but too late, the mother has caught on. I go and smooth things over with the tiger and was pleasantly suprised to find she was quite cool about it. I get back to the car to find the boys still hiding, an interesting sight, what with them all being really tall. We grab the groceries an head into the kitchen. The rest of the evening I can only really remember in fragments. We all had captain morgan and canada dry, listened to music and joked. Then they found my shotglasses. I took two shots with madison and one with mike and had a few hits of their weed, and had the urge to play the guitar. I get my rouge out and play a couple of songs for them, then bask in their compliments. Mike has to use the bathroom so I show him into my very untidy room, where he meets cheops, my giraffe.

At some point in the evening, we ended up in the front yard. By this time I am really drunk, as is everyone else. The guys take to riding my nephew's tricyle down the hill and eventually breaking it. I'm just trying to keep from embarassing myself at this point, laughing and smoking and leaning against the tree. Things seemed to be going okay with mike but I just can't be sure, too much weed, too much alcohol. I leave to go to the bathroom, praying with every step that I don't throw up, and I notice mike following behind me. I wasn't in the right state of mind to think anything about this other than "oh please don't let him hear me throw up", so I slowly make my way up to my room. Thankfully I didn't throw up but the world was still spinning so I sat on my bed and rested my head in my hands when I heard a knock on the door. "Yeah...Come in." Mike opens the door and we exchange and akward hello before he sits on my giraffe. This part of the conversation I can probably remember word for word because it's the sweetest thing I've ever experienced.

"I'm really nervous," mike confesses to me.
"Why?" because I can't for the life of me understand.
"Because I want to kiss you."
I can feel my eyes widen, "oh."
That probably wasn't the response he was looking for so he asked, "can I?"
"Yes."

I probably should have handled that better. But it seemed to do the trick, one thing led to another and then I open my eyes and I'm lying on my bed kissing him. I have decided since that I thourougly enjoy kissing. I would like to do it as much as possible. I also like sex. We did that too. Either I'm doing something wrong or orgasms really aren't all thy're made out to be, but it was still good. We had sex twice and were lying on the bed, him almost naked from the waist down when rene'e walked in. "Oh..." Then sean came up behind her. "OH..." They hesitate for a second, like two deer caught in the headlights, before sean pulls the door shut. "This room is occupied," I call to them.

Much, much more happened that night, but I have run out of time.
To be continued........................