So I finished this... it took a long time and I started getting lazy about it at the end. It"s very long and I tried not to leave out a single detail, as you guys said. IF it needs to be trimmed I could easily do that by taking out certain events, but you don"t get the full picture then. I also did not proof-read it, so take it as it is.
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There is no short way to put this, and it probably isn"t the most interesting story... this is basically interactions I"ve had with a girl (Sarah) over the past 10 or so years. It is my ex-girlfriend that I dated when I was 17, she was 16. She was my cousin"s (Jackie) best friend, and that"s how we met. I was nervous and shy around girls when I was younger, but she warmed up to me immediately and took control because it was sort of a set up, where Jackie told her to meet me. The relationship lasted for about 6 months before I broke it off... it was also long distance (she lived 45 mins from me). Sarah is responsible for the single hottest moment of my life (obviously lost my virginity to her), and is the first and maybe only person I"ve been in love with. So maybe that"s why I feel the way I do. BUT, I will say this - I have definitely had other girlfriends... well, 1 more to be exact. It lasted roughly the same amount of time, and I never loved her. There are at least 9 other girls I"ve slept with, so it"s not like THIS girl is THE only one.
Why did I break it off? No clue really. I was 17, I didn"t feel I needed an emotional commitment to a girl, and barely understood it anyways. She was also kind of flaky in the sense that she is horrible at responding to texts/phone calls (still is). I attribute this a lot to the fact that her phones are always extremely damaged, and she doesn"t really keep it near her all the time, because I"ve seen that. I remember one day we distinctly had plans to hang out, and she didn"t answer one of my phone calls. I can"t remember if her phone was off and it went straight to voice mail or not, but texting at this point was pretty nonexistent as this was 10 years ago.
Anyways, we broke up. The following few months she put forth a lot of effort in trying to get me to reconsider this. I"d actually hung out with her as my cousin Jackie was dating one of my best friends, and they"d go over to his apartment every once in a while. So I bumped into her a few times, it was pretty damn awkward for me, and I can"t exactly describe what I was feeling at the time. I must not have had a strong sex drive, because my mind would have immediately been geared towards talking to her again. But when we hung out, we didn"t really talk. If we were in a room together alone, it was pretty damn weird for me. I was definitely not up front with or even understood my own emotions or feelings though.
My mistakes from here on out are very stupid.
So, she"s gone.. 2 years go by. I"m 19, she"s 18. I see her on AIM. What the fuck? I"ll IM her. We talk for a while, maybe a few days before I ask if she wants to hang out. We decide on a day. She drives out about 45 minutes. I"m nervous as fuck. I decide we can go hang out at my friend"s house and smoke a lot of weed, because I generally don"t feel I"m entertaining enough to hang out with. At this point my interactions with women are few and far between because I went to an all boys high school. I have no idea how to talk to them, flirt with them, etc. It really does not come natural to me. Anyways, that night ends, nothing exciting happens, and it will also be the only night we hang out at this stage.
This is where I start to become obsessive and needy, and it has been an on-going problem ever since. I"m just going to point out slight things I remember. I cannot to this day understand why I acted this way. My fucking god does it disgust me. But just realize I was young and naive.
I continue to communicate with her on AIM.. she told me she was going to a dance with some other dude she didn"t like, which bummed me out a lot more than it should have, and I kind of conveyed that. Over the next few weeks I probably asked her to hang out a handful of times, with no results for whatever reason. We definitely made plans that she later broke on more than one occasion, which threw me into overdrive. I was getting to the point where I needed to talk to her whenever I could. I was becoming extremely desperate for her attention. I literally had an alarm on AIM when she signed on. I"d IM her immediately. I remember calling her house a few times in a row one night because I couldn"t get a hold of her (we may have had plans and she ditched out). Anyways, we eventually stop talking
Another year or so passes and Myspace is becoming popular. I join up, and am on there for a while before she find me. She adds me as a friend, sends me a message "Hey!!" I am basically the same needy bitch that I was before, and e-mail her quite frequently, anxiously awaiting her replies. Sometimes they don"t come for a few days and I get frustrated. I don"t remember all the details in this time frame, but it"s basically all the same shit, with me trying to make plans with her, and it never happening, although at this point I"m aware she has a boyfriend. I hear from Jackie that Sarah"s boyfriend is a real faggot, and they fight a lot.. so I feel there"s hope. I give up after so long. (Good for me!)
A couple of years pass, I"m now 23-24.. she has just turned 22. I hear Jackie is having a birthday party out around my side of town and Sarah is going to go. Sarah didn"t ask me if I was going, but she knew I would be by talking to Jackie. I"m still skeptical she"ll be there, but am excited about the prospect of seeing her again. My friends and I walk in there and Jackie and Sarah are already sitting at the bar. I haven"t mentioned up to this point that this girl is extremely gorgeous. At this time she"s a promotional model for Miller Lite. God damn, she really looked amazing. She was wearing some whiteish short jean shorts, with black boots up to her knee, and some black shirt. I"d never really seen her in this light and was really thrown. Anyways, we transfer to another bar. My other cousin (Jerry) was there, who has been close to me all my life, yet constantly tries to one-up me (I firmly believe he is sociopathic).
Throughout that night, I spend most of the time talking to my friends. I ignored Sarah. It wasn"t intentional whatsoever, but I really didn"t know how to react to her being there, though I did buy her and Jackie a few shots. My cousin, Jerry, got up in my face and said, "Haha, I"m dancing with Sarah, I"m gonna hook up with her" or something along those lines. I was pissed, but shrugged it off. After a lot of alcohol consumption, she finds me... she"s pretty inebriated at this point, but she didn"t leave my side for the rest of the night. Our conversation wasn"t the greatest as we were both extremely fucked up, but she came to me, and that made me happy. Jackie, her date, and Sarah were staying in a hotel room that night... Sarah wanted me to come along. So I did. Nothing happened since there were 2 people in the bed next to us. I didn"t even try to kiss her, but she did fall asleep in my arms. She still has that boyfriend.
A few weeks pass and I invite her to the Mayhem Festival Concert with Disturbed and Slipknot I think.. She came, we had a good time. I"ll leave out details in here as this is getting long.
I am not some insane stalker, but I happened to notice this, and am now constantly under severe paranoia of this fucker.
My cousin Jerry tells me he"s trying to get this girl"s number that he"s hung out with before, so he sent her a funny facebook message. I happen to know all his passwords, so I figured I"d check it out, because I was curious what he"d written in case I could use it for the future and see if it"d worked. So I look, and he sent the same exact message to Sarah also. I become fucking infuriated. I don"t confront him, but have no idea why he"d need her number to hang out with her. I find out she gives it to him. BUT, Jerry ends up hanging out with and dating the other girl.
From this point on, I had started an anti-depressant medication that really fucked me up when I drank. I"d literally get blacked out and become unable to control my actions. I"d literally wake up and have to find out from people what I did, and think what the fuck? (worst decision ever to start that shit)
A month or 2 passes, and Jackie tells me her and Sarah want to go to a haunted house... I told Jackie there are a bunch out near me if they want to come out. They ended up coming. We were on our way to my friend"s house to pre-drink, and I hear Sarah and Jackie talking about Jerry and that he"s being "weird." I have no idea what this means, but neither of them would tell me exactly and told me not to worry about it. Jerry comes over without his girlfriend for some reason, even though I know she wanted to hang out.
After Jerry showed up, he asks me how it"s going... and casually tells me Sarah told him she hasn"t had sex in a while. I begin to wonder in what context this was in, and for what reason... She doesn"t know he told me this until a while after this night. But a bit into the night, she said to him that they need to talk. I don"t remember why or what triggered it, but they went out on to the balcony and closed the door. I"ll never know what the hell was said or what even happened, but after Jerry came back in he said sorry to me then left shortly after. We decided to go to a local bar we go to and generally make asses of ourselves so they know us pretty well. Sarah is almost falling over drunk. I had to assure the bouncer she"d be ok, and he knew me so it was cool.
This is where it finally starts.
We get into the car after the bar. My friend is driving, and Jackie is in the front seat. Sarah and I in the back and she"s right next to me. I decide it"s time to just go for it, so I kiss her and she"s for it. We make out for the entire ride back to my car. We"re getting into my car to head to my place and she said "Jackie, let me sit in the front, we"re gonna hook up." I"m thinking, holy fuck... It"s about a half hour back to my place. She asks for pajamas in my room.. tells me to close my eyes for some reason (apparently she"s changed her mind). She gets in bed and we proceed to make out again. I take her shirt off, bra off... we"re still making out. When I start to reach under her pants she STOPS me. She said, "I"m not prepared for this." I have no clue what this means, but she asks for her shirt back and we go to sleep.
The next time we hang out is a couple weeks later near Halloween. We decide to go to the same bar we went to before for a costume party. The night goes well, we end up back at my house. I remember laying down with her next to me, people in my room... and we made out again. It didn"t go anywhere from there though.
Jackie and Sarah started coming over pretty regularly for the next year or so. Every time we hang out from here on is a downhill spiral for me. We"d never actually talked in person about where this was going, or what was going to happen. We always got too drunk. I knew she still had a boyfriend. I"d never actually had a meaningful conversation or actively flirted with her when we hung out, I"d just begin to CLING to her. I"d get so blacked out, I could barely let her leave my side. But she drove me to drink far more than I normally would have. The main reason being, I was clueless as fuck as to what would happen with us.
I wanted her desperately to leave her boyfriend, and she finally did one night. She came over and said they were breaking up. Of course, Jackie was there too.. they went upstairs to talk about it. I was really excited about this, but that whole night I turned into a retard again. I continued to text her, and soon found out she got back together with her ex and was now moving in with him, because I don"t think she could handle it at her mom"s house anymore.
One night I came out to Jackie"s house for Sarah"s birthday with a few of her friends. I befriended one of her friends, found out she played ps3. We began playing games together and texting, and I know Sarah was jealous and pissed at thism though she claims she wasn"t. This girl I became friends with had no idea Sarah and I had dated. I asked Sarah about it and she said she thought she mentioned it to her. Oh, right.. But this girl asked me why I don"t get back together with her? She asked Sarah if she still had feelings for me, and her reply wasn"t "no" ... it was "why do you ask that?" So the girl texted me back and said she knew she does from that reply.
Anyways, that all comes to a stop. I was texting her every day during the time period from when we started hanging out to my self-destructive downhill spiral into oblivion. I know that"s awful, but I HAD to talk to her. She"d respond happily some days, and some days she"d wait or ignore me completely. I"d always say "well thanks for the reply" or something like that.
The reason I included Jerry in this, is because at one point I confronted him... I saw that she sent him a facebook message saying she had a dream about him. It was nothing sexual, I can"t remember the context. He replies back trying to be humorous about interpreting her dream, but incorporating in it that I am controlling and talking other shit about me. I later found out from my close friends that he said she told him on that balcony that she was attracted to him, but could never do anything because of me. (I don"t believe this to be true btw, because my cousin lies about a lot of shit.) After I talked to both of them about my issues with them talking to eachother, they had a chat on facebook, I have no idea what it said, but I saw she sent him a message saying, "Make sure you close the chat window!" Whenever we all hang out, he does actively flirt with her in front of my face. She seems to flirt back, unless she"s just being friendly. I know she craves attention, because she flirts with all of my friends or so it seems to me. Unless this is just common behavior and I"m some paranoid freak.
Fast forward toNOW, 1 to 2 years have passed.
She texted me on New Years Eve saying Happy New Year.. I replied, said we need to hang out soon and she needs to see my new house. (I currently live with Jerry and his brother) She doesn"t believe it"s been so long since we last hung out.
2 months later I ask her to go to a wedding with me. Mine and Jackie"s cousin is getting married, and I know she wouldn"t come solo without Jackie... the main reason being I know she still has the same boyfriend of 7-8 years now, and if she"s with my cousin then she has an excuse. She says she wanted to go and she"s excited. She asked me what color shirt I was wearing, went out and bought a dress and everything. I was pretty excited about this.
So now it"s March, day of the wedding... they show up. We go to the wedding, come back to my house for drinks before the reception. We go to the reception... she told me I look better than both of my cousins (Jerry and his brother). We saw people dancing, she looked at Jerry and said, "he"s so into himself, look." I hope this means she"s turned off by that. We talked a lot, unlike any other time we hung out before... she asked me "Do you want to get married?" I can"t tell if she"s testing me or just making conversation. I respond with, "yeah, I just haven"t found the right girl, it"s tough." I asked her, but what I really wanted to ask was "Do you want to marry the person you"re with?"
Anyways, we leave the reception, go back to my house... talk for a bit, play some music. She already knows she"s sleeping in my room. I give her shit to sleep in. We lay in bed and talk for a while, which is uncommon in the past as we"d have been too trashed. I turn off the light as if it"s time to sleep, and she said something else... so I responded.. then said, "I don"t really want to overstep my bounds, but can I kiss you?" She said "I was just thinking about that." So I did... THE SAME THING HAPPENS. We make out, I take her shirt off, bra off... she helps me do this. I didn"t spend too much time messing around, but I guess I should have. I thought if I went quickly she wouldn"t stop me again... but BAM. As soon as I went to go under her pants she stopped me. I"m thinking FUCK. And I literally pleaded with her this time to no avail. I told her I wanted her so badly, and for so long. I said, "you want to do this though." She replied with "yeah, but what would you think of me? I can"t because of the situation I"m in right now." And she sounds extremely sincere. So I don"t know how to take this. Regardless, she lays on my chest and falls asleep.. I ask her if she"d rather lay on a pillow. She said, "no I"m good if you are."
I have no clue how the fuck I could do this any differently? She wants to fuck, it"s obvious.. then once it"s about to happen the deal is off. I don"t get how you can go that far for nothing. She"s already cheating on her boyfriend by even going to the damn wedding with me.
Anyways, that morning they leave.. her phone is fucked, I tell her to text me when she gets it working..
2 days later she texts me... we talk for a bit.. I said "I had a really really good time with you, glad you came." she said "I had a really really good time with you Thanks for inviting me." 3 hours pass and she texts me again about this awesome chicken dish she made. I respond accordingly... then leave it alone. Another hour passes and she texts me again just saying my name... so I ask what"s up. She said she just wanted to tell me how great I looked and she didn"t tell me to the extent that she wanted to. I complimented her again, and said I likely told her enough. And she said I did, but "15 times would have been better "
I didn"t text her for a week after this. I"m trying to play it cool. She texted me last monday to see if I did anything on St Patty"s Day.. I said yeah and was pretty upbeat.. she just laughed at a few things I said but didn"t seem entirely too interested in having a conversation.
Finally I initiated a text with her last week on Wednesday. She didn"t respond for like a few hours, but she works during the day. When she texted me back finally, she was pretty responsive. But leading up to that, I was like "fuck, should I be texting her more? Does she think I"m not interested?" I asked her if she wanted to hang out this weekend and she said she was going out of town for a bachelorette party, but she said "how about next weekend?"
MY QUESTION IS: What do I do moving forward? The general consensus I"m sure will tell me this girl is not worth my time. But for all I"ve gone through, it"s just so hard to give this up. It drains me every day thinking about it though. I wish there were an easy way for me to forget this.. but the option is there for me to continue hanging out with her and be a changed person. Where it goes from there, I have no idea. I do know she lives with her boyfriend of 7-8 years now, and from what she does with me, indicates she doesn"t think very highly of him. I know she wants out and she"s trapped. If she broke up with him she has nowhere to go at this point. Both of her parents are out of state.
She said she"d hang out this weekend when we texted last week. Should I text her tomorrow and confirm that or wait for her to see if she says anything? Obviously I"m on the edge of my seat to see if and when she"ll text me next... but I"m staying cool and not going overboard by texting her constantly.