A Begger's Night Treat

So last night was another exciting “non-date” with Maikol…

I show up at Flickinger to see the guys in the parking lot all dressed like prisoners with $5 footlong shirts on underneath…I mean seriously? I feel like there is some joke about advertising your footlong as a prisoner but I can’t think of anything very clever….I have no costume because I had no idea this was a costume party…

We went to an Iranian Halloween Party…I have no idea how he knows all of these random people but we end up in Williamsville at an FW post filled with Iranians and some crazy bangra-ish sounding music…the boys are immediately semi-uncomfortable because guys dance with guys…and in a weird shimmy drop it low kind of fashion, Ricardo couldn’t handle it…he stuck to my side like we both swallowed magnets…Jose and Maikol tried dancing with a few people but mostly stuck to the wall. Suddenly a strange woman comes up grabs my hand and starts dancing with me…she’s new to the country and from Spain and she wants me to teach her how to dance like an American…except the way she’s dancing with me makes it seem like she wants to have my baby instead…also she asks how much Spanish I speak and am I from America (story of my life: everyone thinks I am Latino) so after awkward Lambada style dancing with some American moves thrown in Ricardo grabbed me for a picture…for that I was thankful

So we stayed a bit longer and then decided to head out on the town…
We started off near South Campus at the Steer….whores abounded…seriously Halloween is the one holiday where it’s socially acceptable for guys to dress as women and women to dress as whores…the Steer was kind of lame though and they charged $3 cover…seriously in Buffalo? Ummm it’s not amazing enough here to charge covers…especially since it was dead inside.

We drank for a bit and watched the parade of costumes go by, the boys tried guessing my age again…seriously why does it matter? I think Jose really wants to know because he just turned 29 but seriously should a lady ever tell her age?

So we’re hanging out by the window and Maikol looks at me and asks if I am dating anyone…I pause for a moment because I am thinking….”umm besides you?” but instead answer no and he high fives me….like we just won a game of foosball….and he says oh good because I’m not either….so of course you know my girl wheels are spinning…I’m thinking why would he ask? Is he going to ask me out for real? Was he dating someone else? But instead I just sip my rum and diet

The Steer was pretty dead so we leave for a new bar…as we’re walking out I start talking to Maikol about random stuff and then decide to slip the dating question in…well I ask why he asked me, I don’t ask him to date me…I’m not that ballsy…and he says “well I was kind of dating someone else but it didn’t work out, we didn’t have anything to talk about and she just didn’t seem interested” I feel like this should have been some AHA moment but instead I just feel more confused…he goes on to say that he doesn’t know if he even has enough time to really seriously date someone and I look at him stunned and he asks me what I think…so I say that I think he has enough time, with the right person it’ll work and it usually works if people are friends first…and then it’s his turn to just look at me…

I’m at a loss on this one…

So we head to Average Joes and its super packed so that’s always exciting…so we end up in the middle of chaos…when this random guy (dressed in an all jean outfit with his shirt unbuttoned) comes up to me and starts freak dancing me while I am just standing there drinking…I look at Jose and he just shrugs his shoulders and I try to scoot away

So we’re drinking and joking and taking pics…I’m getting super drunk at this point…and the random guy comes back and tries to put my necklace in his mouth (its short length so his mouth is closing in on my neck) while he’s asking if it’s made of candy and can he eat it. I am like horrified and push him back and he comes back in and Maikol pushes him away and says something..I can’t hear because everyone is screaming to words to Sweet Caroline

All of a sudden Bennert is behind me in a Scottish kilt and full ensemble and he’s all what are you doing here…I haven’t seen him since the July 4th rooftop party so I am pretty surprised as well. I look around but I don’t see his bff/partner in crime Doug (the former object of my affection) so I’m good and go back to dancing around when someone grabs my hand and tries to pull me away from the boys…this crazy ass drunk girl is all you’re so beautiful, come dance with me…and I think seriously is there a full moon, how do I get every weirdo within the metropolitan area …she won’t leave me alone so I pass her off to Ricardo and she is out of control…she is on the verge of crying drunk and keeps saying her friend left her and I tell her to get a glass of water because she is out of control to which she responds by falling on the floor. Someone helps her up and she decides to sleep on the pool table…good times
So I suddenly see Doug and I think WTF…I feel like I have to say hello and pretend things are fine…and then I realize I don’t need t pretend at all because things are fine, plus I have my posse of boys to watch my back

So we make eye contact and I wave and he comes over and shakes my hand and tells me how great it is to see me and what am I doing here and we talk about planning…all the whole the guys are standing like 2 feet away…so I introduce them and he tells them how I am the greatest person ever and I keep the planning department together and he wouldn’t have graduated without me (which is probably true, but another story) so then Bennert comes over and we’re all talking and then Doug play hits me and Bennert and walks away…like hits us in the face…seriously WTF

So I walk next to Maikol again and I tell him they’re from my program and that I can’t stand that kid Doug and he’s all “it didn’t look like you hated him” and just looks at me…I say I was just being nice but he doesn’t look like he is buying it…I kind of like the territorial look

The rest of the evening is a little fuzzy because of all the free shots I had…the guys didn’t like them so I drank them all…bad idea

We end up back in the parking lot at Flickinger and Maikol goes to drop me off at my car and I am like seriously you think I should drive and he looks at me and says no he’ll drive me home…so I look at Jose and say I can just stay on his couch for a few hours and he says that’s fine…Maikol says no I can’t stay there he’ll just drive me home and pick me up tomorrow to get my car. I say its too far for him to drive and he says its his job to make sure I make it home safe which I think is kind of sweet. So Jose drives my car closer to his building and we all chat in the lot for a moment and I get back in the car and ask Maikol if he’s sure and he says yes so we drive to my house, he makes me give him my address because apparently he assumes I can’t give directions to my own house (I’m tipsy but not that drunk)

I continue to question whether he really wants to do this and will he tell me a story (I’m feeling a little nauseous at this point) and he tells me to just sit back and relax and focus on the ride

So he tells me about his grandmother dying, I didn’t know she had been sick really, I knew she was in the hospital for surgery but I didn’t think it was dire. He simply explained that while he was sad she was gone but he was glad that she wasn’t suffering anymore…and then switched the topic to happier things…his mom coming and how I am going to be one of the first people she meets and that I’ll be able to speak to her in Spanish by then and she’s going to try to speak English to her and he’s going to take her to all of these fun places and wishes she could stay forever and his brother is coming to Colorado so he hopes he can see him…we talked about a few other things, nothing that sticks out and he dropped me off and offered to pick me up tomorrow for Jose’s birthday party

We’ll see what’s up later tonight