The Date

It's on like Donkey Kong!

It's a date, I have a proper date with AB, after all the false starts, the silly misunderstandings, the senseless bickering the over analysing, the fretting about nothing and the endless talking we have a date...Wow it's A game time, time to impress, to woo, to shine, to not apparently compliment, show affection in public or act in anyway keen...Yes it's AB, dates have rules!

So I book a (twin ) hotel room, it's £60 a taxi from town to AB's and I'm in the city staying anyway so it makes sense for us to just stay. This it seems is fine, so AB arrives from work, I've bought her a little gift and it seems to go down well so not a bad start. I go fetch some wine whilst she changes and showers to give her some privacy, when I come back she's dressed and looks breathtaking, she's a vision and I'm choking back compliments, she gets uneasy with compliments so I try not to give her reason to be, but trust me on this, it's not easy, this woman is beautiful and she lights up the room by just being in it, she has eyes you could swim in and I melt looking at her.  We share some wine and head out, I want to show her a little of what I like so we head to one of my favourite restaurants.. we're too late for food, they offer us deserts or wine, kitchens closed...sh*t, this was my ace in the hole, AB would have loved this place...slight panic, but plan B...Yep plan B is a bust too, so it's plan C...Mercado in Merchant Square..

We get a table with a half hour wait, chat, have a drink and get on with our night. We have fun, sitting chatting and the wait flies bye. We get our table, order food, drinks and have a good night. Every thing's great and the night is going well, AB relaxes, opens up and has fun. We finish the meal, sit for drinks and chat, it's a good night, relaxing and not at all awquard, time flys and it gets late so we move on to a club. A couple of more drinks and we are all good, it's a good night..a success, a triumph... tired and happy we head hack to the hotel. We hold hands, kiss and laugh over the whole evening and it feels good. We go to sleep, have a cuddle and I'm thinking 'this is working out well,' so I retire happy.

 I'm off to work for a month next day and I know I'll miss her, I'm not supposed to tell her this as she's not sure how she feels, so I just say I'll keep in touch, she says not to, I kind of know she's joking but I'm still a little put out by this, it's the kind of know she's joking thing... because I kind of know she's not too. I don't know this girls past, but someone must have really hurt her once and right now I'm paying that piper. She lets go for a while, relaxes and allows herself to be loved, then she closes down and retreats into herself, I'm trying to figure out how to get more of the former from her as every now and again she lets slip she's thawing a little, am I mental for pursuing her, yeah probably..but is she worth the chase, definitely.. She says she wishes she could be like me and wear her heart on her sleeve, I say just give it a try, she'll never know if she stays on the fence..I'm not a bad bloke, she could do worse than give me a chance.