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Sunday, 21 September 2008, 22:09
What a night...
It all went pretty well really, minus all the drama. Ended up having a great birthday, got my car from Mum and Dad, Mikey got me some vouchers, the guys got me enough vodka and beer to drown an elephant, also pretty cool.
I was a bit nervous about the party beforehand, hadn't heard from Summer and wondered whether she was going to make a scene. Everything was going really well, all the guys turned up and it was more or less just family and close friends for the meal. Mum had done the layouts for the tables, and it ended up that Lilly was sat next to me, in Summer's place, seems as Jordon had a place next to his girlfriend and all that. Ollie and Lauren turned up and I was a bit disappointed not to see Lilly there. Turns out Ollie knew she was going to be late but didn't want to tell me, instead wanting to see if I worked up a sweat about it.
I saw her before she saw me. She was walking down the steps down to the dining area, looking great in a long gold dress. She looked pretty uneasy and shy, and suddenly Ollie came bounding over to me and seeing what I was looking at, slapped me pretty hard on the back. Coughing fit follows, making Lilly look up, her eyes rounding as she recognised my face from the other day [also pretty cool]. Ollie introduced her to me and we had five minutes of Lilly not knowing me and Ollie were friends, and Ollie joking that he didn't know his best friend looked so good in a dress, all the while Lilly's eyes locked on mine. So when Ollie joked he would give us some "private time" together, I knew what was coming.
To be fair, she did say "happy birthday" before she said "so, you're the birthday boy... and Summer's boyfriend." her eyes were pretty questioning, silently asking why I asked for her number when I had a girlfriend. I started to explain how me and Summer weren't together any more [in my eyes] but the food started arriving so we had to get back to the table, not before Mum called me over and asked who my "beautiful friend" was. The answer was: "I'm Lilly, Josh's new friend" so she couldn't have been that bitter about the Summer thing. But she wasn't the type to milk it in either. All of a sudden Lilly and Mum were deep in conversation about... shopping. They were laughing and joking and when I was back at the table I saw them keep glancing over at me, making me blush and look down at my food, cue more laughing.
She didn't say anything about being placed next to me, instead catching up with Lauren for a bit before turning back to me reminding me about sending her flying the other day. Cue more blushing, making me feel like a right idiot. I tried to be as smooth as possible, I'm quite a confident bloke and can sort of keep it up when I'm feeling a bit soft. I think she bought it anyway.
The dinner went really well and after saying goodbye to all the people who weren't staying for the party, it was time to move rooms and the Mums were rushing around making sure presents and cakes and buffet foods were ready etc etc. I hung around with the guys for a bit but couldn't help noticing everyone swarming around Lilly and Lauren, telling them how great they looked and for a split second I wondered whether starting to like Lilly so much was a good idea, what with the whole high maintenence, big social circle thing. But I'm pretty sure she's nothing like Summer. Who still hadn't made an appearance. Didn't bump into Lilly for an hour or so later when everyone was getting pretty merry and starting to dance and mess around. She was sitting by down next to Mikey, talking to him in sign and helping him eat his food. I saw that Mum was also looking at them, and I was pretty pleased. Mikey looked so happy, laughing his head off at something she was saying. Summer never once took time out of her 'hectic schedule' to sit down and talk to my ill kid brother. She even resented him, for slowing down outings and trips yadda yadda. Anyway, so Mikey spots me and beckons me over, so I grabbed a glass of champagne and some juice and headed over, sitting down next to Lilly, before Mikey made some excuse to go over and see his friends he had brought to the party. Nicely done.
I can't remember who started the conversation, maybe me admiring her ability to sign, but soon we were laughing, even making fun of Summer at some stage. And it was all going swimmingly well until one of the guys barged into me and my champagne spilled all over Lilly's dress. I was mortified, but she wasn't too fussed, and I tried to laugh it off by saying my bill was going to be huge by the time I got to take her out. Cue a bit of a flirting, which made her smile and blush a little. She looked really gorgeous, her hair was long and wavy and she pulled off that whole effortlessly beautiful thing. I couldn't help looking at her but she did look amazing.
Everyone knows that she's Summer's rival but no one had a bad word to say about her. I'm guessing everyone was gossiping, and I've had a few messages today asking what's going on, but everyone thinks she's great. Saying that, everyone seemed to know everything about her, which made me wonder why I hadn't been keeping up for the past two years. None of Summer's friends were there to rub it in, but the name Jamie did pop up a few times and each time Lilly seemed to shy away from the topic. Which was the only thing I think that stopped me from kissing her. Whatever happened between them, she was happy to move on but still pretty sad, and it was gonna probably take her a while to get out of it.
Anyway, I did ask her to dance. And she didn't refuse. So I took her hand and we got up and danced, with her hand on my chest and mine around her back yadda yadda [calm down Josh] and it was great. And she looked great and smelled great and danced great really close to me and it was all great.
Until I saw Summer. With Jamie. Hand in hand, waltzing into the ballroom with a huge grin on her face. Wearing the dress I had bought her. I tried to divert Lilly's attention by whispering something into her ear, trying to get her to look at me, but it was too late. She watched as Summer grabbed her ex boyfriend on the dance floor and kissed him, in front of her, me, everyone. And they weren't even pulling back. Just totally went for it and I could feel myself getting angrier, and Lilly got more upset. Suddenly Summer pulled back, looked at the both of us, and said something, I don't even know what, but it was enough for me to pull a protective arm around Lilly and try to take her out of the situation, although she moved from under me and practically ran out of the hall, followed by Lauren, Ollie, and last but not least Jamie.
I stormed over to talk to Summer, but was beaten by my Mum who took her scrawny wrist and yanked her out of the room. I went straight out in the direction of the group to see Lilly walking away by herself towards the lake, Lauren pacing, and Ollie trying to stop Jamie from running after her. I grabbed the collar of his shirt and yanked him to the floor, trying not to get too angry but what was I supposed to do? He had just kissed my girlfriend when we hadn't properly broken up yet. But he had done it purposely to spite Lilly. I yelled at him but my brother came out and stopped me from doing anything stupid, pulling me away and not letting me go back. I stalked away in the direction that I saw Lilly go in, but couldn't find her anywhere. Bearing in mind I was drunk and angry, I kicked a few trees and yelled a bit out of frustration. I should have known Summer was going to do something like that, and if I had thought properly, I could have stopped her from even coming in the place. I looked up to see Lilly watching me, sat on the bank with her legs dangling over the edge. I looked at her for a second before deciding to go over, sitting next to her and noticing her furiously trying to wipe her tears away.
I didn't really know what to say apart from apologise to her, but she said it wasn't my fault. She also knew Summer was going to do something like that, and we should have known it wouldn't have been beyond her to hurt Lilly in the best way she can. "Besides," she said "she did see me dancing with her boyfriend." I corrected her, saying I was her ex boyfriend. Cos it was over from that point. We had a bit of a deep conversation about eveyrthing that happened between her and Jamie, and I felt really bad for her. I had a bit of a chat about Summer too, and how I didn't realise what had gone on between all of them. Lilly didn't look at me once because she was so upset, and I offered to walk her back to her room. When we got up there she turned to me and I felt really bad for her, I didn't really want her to stay by herself but she was sharing with Ollie and I guessed he wouldn't be too long. I offered to give her a hug and she's really small and petite, more than I thought she was. I left her and joined the guys on the grass outside for a few more beers, thankfully with no Summer in sight, and we got to bed about 5am.
Anyway, so now I really like her. Actually, I think she's amazing. And I feel bad for her, and I want to help her, but I don't know what's going to happen from now. I've turned my phone off today cos I don't wanna deal with any people who want to know the goss. But I do still have Lilly's number, and I am tempted to ring it just to see how she is.
We'll see.
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Sunday, 21 September 2008, 22:09
What a night...
It all went pretty well really, minus all the drama. Ended up having a great birthday, got my car from Mum and Dad, Mikey got me some vouchers, the guys got me enough vodka and beer to drown an elephant, also pretty cool.
I was a bit nervous about the party beforehand, hadn't heard from Summer and wondered whether she was going to make a scene. Everything was going really well, all the guys turned up and it was more or less just family and close friends for the meal. Mum had done the layouts for the tables, and it ended up that Lilly was sat next to me, in Summer's place, seems as Jordon had a place next to his girlfriend and all that. Ollie and Lauren turned up and I was a bit disappointed not to see Lilly there. Turns out Ollie knew she was going to be late but didn't want to tell me, instead wanting to see if I worked up a sweat about it.
I saw her before she saw me. She was walking down the steps down to the dining area, looking great in a long gold dress. She looked pretty uneasy and shy, and suddenly Ollie came bounding over to me and seeing what I was looking at, slapped me pretty hard on the back. Coughing fit follows, making Lilly look up, her eyes rounding as she recognised my face from the other day [also pretty cool]. Ollie introduced her to me and we had five minutes of Lilly not knowing me and Ollie were friends, and Ollie joking that he didn't know his best friend looked so good in a dress, all the while Lilly's eyes locked on mine. So when Ollie joked he would give us some "private time" together, I knew what was coming.
To be fair, she did say "happy birthday" before she said "so, you're the birthday boy... and Summer's boyfriend." her eyes were pretty questioning, silently asking why I asked for her number when I had a girlfriend. I started to explain how me and Summer weren't together any more [in my eyes] but the food started arriving so we had to get back to the table, not before Mum called me over and asked who my "beautiful friend" was. The answer was: "I'm Lilly, Josh's new friend" so she couldn't have been that bitter about the Summer thing. But she wasn't the type to milk it in either. All of a sudden Lilly and Mum were deep in conversation about... shopping. They were laughing and joking and when I was back at the table I saw them keep glancing over at me, making me blush and look down at my food, cue more laughing.
She didn't say anything about being placed next to me, instead catching up with Lauren for a bit before turning back to me reminding me about sending her flying the other day. Cue more blushing, making me feel like a right idiot. I tried to be as smooth as possible, I'm quite a confident bloke and can sort of keep it up when I'm feeling a bit soft. I think she bought it anyway.
The dinner went really well and after saying goodbye to all the people who weren't staying for the party, it was time to move rooms and the Mums were rushing around making sure presents and cakes and buffet foods were ready etc etc. I hung around with the guys for a bit but couldn't help noticing everyone swarming around Lilly and Lauren, telling them how great they looked and for a split second I wondered whether starting to like Lilly so much was a good idea, what with the whole high maintenence, big social circle thing. But I'm pretty sure she's nothing like Summer. Who still hadn't made an appearance. Didn't bump into Lilly for an hour or so later when everyone was getting pretty merry and starting to dance and mess around. She was sitting by down next to Mikey, talking to him in sign and helping him eat his food. I saw that Mum was also looking at them, and I was pretty pleased. Mikey looked so happy, laughing his head off at something she was saying. Summer never once took time out of her 'hectic schedule' to sit down and talk to my ill kid brother. She even resented him, for slowing down outings and trips yadda yadda. Anyway, so Mikey spots me and beckons me over, so I grabbed a glass of champagne and some juice and headed over, sitting down next to Lilly, before Mikey made some excuse to go over and see his friends he had brought to the party. Nicely done.
I can't remember who started the conversation, maybe me admiring her ability to sign, but soon we were laughing, even making fun of Summer at some stage. And it was all going swimmingly well until one of the guys barged into me and my champagne spilled all over Lilly's dress. I was mortified, but she wasn't too fussed, and I tried to laugh it off by saying my bill was going to be huge by the time I got to take her out. Cue a bit of a flirting, which made her smile and blush a little. She looked really gorgeous, her hair was long and wavy and she pulled off that whole effortlessly beautiful thing. I couldn't help looking at her but she did look amazing.
Everyone knows that she's Summer's rival but no one had a bad word to say about her. I'm guessing everyone was gossiping, and I've had a few messages today asking what's going on, but everyone thinks she's great. Saying that, everyone seemed to know everything about her, which made me wonder why I hadn't been keeping up for the past two years. None of Summer's friends were there to rub it in, but the name Jamie did pop up a few times and each time Lilly seemed to shy away from the topic. Which was the only thing I think that stopped me from kissing her. Whatever happened between them, she was happy to move on but still pretty sad, and it was gonna probably take her a while to get out of it.
Anyway, I did ask her to dance. And she didn't refuse. So I took her hand and we got up and danced, with her hand on my chest and mine around her back yadda yadda [calm down Josh] and it was great. And she looked great and smelled great and danced great really close to me and it was all great.
Until I saw Summer. With Jamie. Hand in hand, waltzing into the ballroom with a huge grin on her face. Wearing the dress I had bought her. I tried to divert Lilly's attention by whispering something into her ear, trying to get her to look at me, but it was too late. She watched as Summer grabbed her ex boyfriend on the dance floor and kissed him, in front of her, me, everyone. And they weren't even pulling back. Just totally went for it and I could feel myself getting angrier, and Lilly got more upset. Suddenly Summer pulled back, looked at the both of us, and said something, I don't even know what, but it was enough for me to pull a protective arm around Lilly and try to take her out of the situation, although she moved from under me and practically ran out of the hall, followed by Lauren, Ollie, and last but not least Jamie.
I stormed over to talk to Summer, but was beaten by my Mum who took her scrawny wrist and yanked her out of the room. I went straight out in the direction of the group to see Lilly walking away by herself towards the lake, Lauren pacing, and Ollie trying to stop Jamie from running after her. I grabbed the collar of his shirt and yanked him to the floor, trying not to get too angry but what was I supposed to do? He had just kissed my girlfriend when we hadn't properly broken up yet. But he had done it purposely to spite Lilly. I yelled at him but my brother came out and stopped me from doing anything stupid, pulling me away and not letting me go back. I stalked away in the direction that I saw Lilly go in, but couldn't find her anywhere. Bearing in mind I was drunk and angry, I kicked a few trees and yelled a bit out of frustration. I should have known Summer was going to do something like that, and if I had thought properly, I could have stopped her from even coming in the place. I looked up to see Lilly watching me, sat on the bank with her legs dangling over the edge. I looked at her for a second before deciding to go over, sitting next to her and noticing her furiously trying to wipe her tears away.
I didn't really know what to say apart from apologise to her, but she said it wasn't my fault. She also knew Summer was going to do something like that, and we should have known it wouldn't have been beyond her to hurt Lilly in the best way she can. "Besides," she said "she did see me dancing with her boyfriend." I corrected her, saying I was her ex boyfriend. Cos it was over from that point. We had a bit of a deep conversation about eveyrthing that happened between her and Jamie, and I felt really bad for her. I had a bit of a chat about Summer too, and how I didn't realise what had gone on between all of them. Lilly didn't look at me once because she was so upset, and I offered to walk her back to her room. When we got up there she turned to me and I felt really bad for her, I didn't really want her to stay by herself but she was sharing with Ollie and I guessed he wouldn't be too long. I offered to give her a hug and she's really small and petite, more than I thought she was. I left her and joined the guys on the grass outside for a few more beers, thankfully with no Summer in sight, and we got to bed about 5am.
Anyway, so now I really like her. Actually, I think she's amazing. And I feel bad for her, and I want to help her, but I don't know what's going to happen from now. I've turned my phone off today cos I don't wanna deal with any people who want to know the goss. But I do still have Lilly's number, and I am tempted to ring it just to see how she is.
We'll see.
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I'm Josh. I'm 21, from Cambridge, UK. I'm going into my third year at Sheffield Hallam university, studying law, something that I was pretty much pushed into by my parents.
I guess I should mention my girlfriend, Summer, she'll go crazy if I don't tell you about her. We've been together for eight months now, she's hot.
I spend most of my free time playing sports - rugby, football, tennis, hockey. If I'm not running around I'm at the gym, and hanging out with the guys. It's an easy life, eh :)
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