The sounds of the bookstore café had dimmed down to a low murmur. It was late in the evening. The holiday crowd finally emptied out of the store, leaving only a few stragglers behind. At one of the tables sat VitaBella and Guy. They sat and exchanged laughs, stories and experiences, over cups of tea and hot chocolate, through slightly tired eyes. The day had been one full of activity. They continued to talk, pausing once in awhile to people watch, until the barrister began clanging appliances in the sink, indirectly signaling that it was time to close.
VitaBella and Guy walked quickly through the night’s ridiculously cold air to the warmth of the car.
“I wish there was somewhere else we could go to talk,” said Guy as they closed the car doors.
VitaBella tried to think of places that would be open at this hour, a place that would be conducive to conversation. Living in an area that offered as much entertainment as a Hilary Duff album didn’t leave many options. So, thinking nothing more of Guy’s desire to continue to talk, she began to drive him home.
VitaBella drove through the quiet neighborhood and slowly pulled into the driveway.
“Well, I guess …uh… thanks for inviting me out today,” he said.
“No, problem, I’m really glad you came out. It was a lot of fun.”
“Alright, so . . .uh. . .yeah so… I guess, I’ll talk to you later?” Guy grabbed his belongings and placed his hand on the car door handle and then stopped. He turned around, “Yeah, so I guess I should go ahead and say it…”
VitaBella stared on, slightly confused, yet with a smile on her face because she’s an idiot. (Believe me, this we all know to be true.)
“I….I’m interested. I’m interested in getting to know you more. I don’t want to just be seen as your friend.” He continued, stumbling around with his words. He was a young professor: well-spoken in lecture and confident when instructing his students. Yet, here he sat, struggling to find the right words. He continued to tell VitaBella what he liked about her, how he had felt that they had a genuine connection. He had liked her for a little while and had previously contemplated spending more time with her in the summer.
VitaBella continued to stare with that dumb ass smile on her face. However, inside her highly intelligent mind, she thought, “omg omg omg omg omg omg omg.”
Her mind was racing. She thought back to the past week and the times they had spent together. Although the time they spent wasn’t great in quantity, they both had so much fun. She thought of the long conversations they had online, late into the night, both silly and serious, and how much they had in common. Of course, she had thought he was cute, and a man who could make her laugh like he did was most definitely hard not to crush on. Once Guy finished stumbling through his words and making his intentions known, there was silence. “Oh gawd, here it comes,” he thought as he looked at VitaBella’s dumbfounded smile, “it’s not going to be good.”
It took a brief moment, but VitaBella began. “I’m interested in getting to know you more, too.” Now it was her turn to fumble through her words, a result of the unexpected confession she had just heard. She was unprepared. He had caught her off guard.
After many ‘um’s and ‘uh’s, the conversation came to a close and it was time to leave. Silence ensued again until Guy spoke.
“You should go. It’s getting late. . . but I really don’t want to get out of this car right now.”
“Goodnight, Guy.” (And the VitaBella smile remained.)
Checking in on her this week while Cam is gone, she is p.o.'d right now!!
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It appears as though I will be making it to Hometown for Christmas after all! Somehow, if all continues to go well. I'll see you all when I return!
(forgive stoopid fontage plz, kthnx!)
Once again this Holiday Season, I have had requests for my Tequila Christmas Cake Recipe so here goes:
Please keep in your files as I am getting tired of typing this up every year!
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1 cup water
1 tsp. salt
1 cup brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle tequila
2 cups dried fruit
Sample the tequila to check quality Take a large bowl; check the
tequila again to be sure it is of the highest quality..Repeat.
Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy
bowl.Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.
At this point, it is best to make sure the tequila is sstill OK. Try
another cup just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy.Break 2 eegs and add to the bowl and chuck iin the cup of dried
fruit.Pick the fruit up off the floor.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit getas stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a
drewscriver.Sample the tequila to test for tonsisticity.
Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something.
Check the tequila.
Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Don't forget to beat off the turner
Finally, throw the bowl through the window.
Finish the tequila and wipe the counter with the cat.
Cherry Christmas
The snow is impeding my travel plans. My flight is tomorrow at 6:20pm. Flights as late as 22:30pm tomorrow are already canceled, even though it's stopped actually snowing.
I can't sleep.
If I can't make it to Hometown I'm going to have a mental breakdown. I don't know what I'm going to do, but all the threads that are keeping me sane are all going to snap.
also irrational
aggravating
stupid
stupid
insulting
I want the last two hours of my life back. with like 2300% interest.
LLV is about 'an alcoholic determined to drink himself to death and a prostitute...'
alcoholics and prostitutes should have picketed the movie. for giving them a bad name. talk about defaming.
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