The Conclusion

My second date with Chemistry.com guy was this past Friday and started off well enough. I met him at his place near downtown Denver and then he drove us to dinner at a fairly new Italian restaurant called Osteria Marco. We ordered a bottle of wine at the bar and then moved to our table shortly after we arrived. We enjoyed pleasant conversation over yummy salad and pizza. (The food was great, but the atmosphere was a little more noisy than romantic.) Then we decided to lighten things up and have a little fun and went to a pool hall. I got my butt kicked repeatedly, but we had a good time. Afterwards he drove us back to his place where he invited me to come up. I joined him in his loft and we cuddled on the couch and watched "The Good Shepherd".

Then I did the unthinkable....I FELL ASLEEP! It wasn't even that late, must have been the wine and the comfort of his arms around me. Being the gentleman that he was, when I woke up at the end of the movie, he invited me to stay the night so I didn't have to drive home half asleep. I agreed to stay and joined him in his bed for a nice night of cuddling and snuggling - nothing else happened. However, I was so comfortable with him, and he with me, that we stayed in bed until noon the next day.

By noon I was receiving messages from my roommates who were thinking awful things about why I hadn't come home yet. I felt horrible! I had left my purse downstairs in the kitchen and didn't hear my phone ring. I text them back immediately to let them know I still lived and was on my way home. He walked me to my car and we said goodbye and that was that. There was no "I'll call you" from him and no "Give me a call some time" from me. I thought that was a little strange.

By Monday I still hadn't heard from him, so I assumed it was because I fell asleep and stayed over and there was no fooling around at all. I feared I had given him the impression that I wasn't interested. So I emailed him and told him I'd had fun on Friday and would like to see him again if he was still interested. The email I got back, I hadn't expected at all! Apparently Chemistry.com guy went on another date on Saturday with his best friend's girlfriend's friend who had recently moved to Denver. They'd all been hanging out a lot recently and he decided he'd like to try taking it to the next level. He told me he'd had a lot of fun with me and liked me, but he didn't want to date two girls at the same time and he wanted to see where things might go with this other girl.

Fair enough. I still wasn't sure about how I felt with him, other than comfortable. I certainly appreciate his honesty. Plus, if he hadn't told me that I probably would have gone girlie psycho and blamed myself for fucking everything up. Anyway, back to the drawing board.