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2000-08-12
17:39:33
the most fucked up thing just happened.
here i am, sitting around on saturday afternoon, drinking my coffee and still trying to wake up, when who should call but natalie. natalie. i still can't believe it. why on earth would she decide to call me after all these years?
natalie and i dated for about two years, when we were both right out of college. we worked in the same shitty office and did the same mindless bullshit work every single day. i didn't really mind so much at the time, though, because natalie was fucking hot.
of course, after spending so much time with her at work, i got to the point where i knew i needed to ask her out. so i did. and the rest is history.
i should add that it turned out to be the office romance cliche that everyone always warns you about but never actually seems to happen. well, it does happen. don't ever date someone you work with. it won't end well.
naturally, it shocked the hell out of me when i answered the phone and found her on the other line. i can't even remember when the last time i talked to her was.
she wanted to go out for dinner to talk. i asked if it was anything important, and she said she just wanted to do it for old times' sake. i told her about jess, and she assured me that she's not going to take me away from my wife, so i figured i could probably use a night out.
of course, now i'm doubting myself. what the hell was i thinking? i doubt i'll be able to have dinner like a reasonable human being. i have so many other things on my mind that the moment i find myself listening to someone else speak, i start drifting away from the conversation and into a slow-motion replay of the events of the last few weeks of my life.
natalie asked if we could have dinner tonight, but that seemed too soon, so i asked if we could wait till next weekend. unfortunately, she's going on some sort of a hiking expedition next weekend, and she won't be around. we eventually decided that tonight would be best.
i don't know. i don't know how jess is going to react to this. i haven't told her, yet; she's been out shopping for awhile. and i don't know that this dinner will be especially fun, anyway. i'm not really in the mood to be social lately. why did she have to call now?
