4.28.2005
in the event of a clash......listening to: Hysteria, Absolution by Muse [the drumming is excellent in this song]
reading: not anything really, no time!
thinking about: don't ask
Geez, my sister is so weird. And funny. She sent me an e-mail of stuff to do on my day off [and the last thing on the list was to "stop day-dreaming about Rob" - oh come now lol], which I had already spent half the day sleeping and it felt EXCELLEEEEEEENT. Seriously. I haven't felt this awesome in a looooong time. Sleep is so wonderful. Ah. It's even better when you get to sleep WHEN you want and however LONG you want, and not having to worry about going to work the next day. That's just the worst part of it. You always have this nagging bit in the back of your head saying, "Crap - better go sleep now 'cuz I have to wake up at the butt-crack of dawn the next day..."
So anyways. I worked with Rob yesterday. Yes, yes, again. My boss fired two other servers for not coming in and letting him know about it. Those losers. But so now we have to go and fill in the shifts that are missing. Bloody great. Wouldn't you say? And I have to work with Rob tomorrow as well. I only got one day off this week. *sigh* Ah well. Dyed my hair burgundy. I had blonde/brownish streaks in it so the red looks more streaky in the light. Rob tells me he dyed his hair burgundy and black once too and I was like, "huh, weird" You know, just imagining it on him is kinda weird haha. So after I got off of work and done cleaning out the car, I check my phone and see that I had one missed call. And it was him. I call him back and ask if he just called. He confirms it, saying that he needed someone to work for him today [Thursday] since there's this group that wanted him to go up with them to Seattle, some big group but was kind of "underground" or something, not mediocre, yet not quite mainstream, you'd have to be in certain lines to know about it, ya know? "But if you don't want to, if you're too tired than that's totally fine," he says.
"It's not only that," I say. "It's also because my sister's taking the car tomorrow."
"Is that why you cleaned it out?"
"Yeah," Wow, good reasoning, haha, but the biggest reason was because it WAS dirty, and his car was cleaner and I felt like an idiot, lol. Whatever.
So later on we end up hanging out with his friend Josie [who is totally awesome by the way] whom was a little goofy, but I believed she would get along quite well with Shanna's sisters Liza and Rachel - THEY are total goofs and kooks, they're almost like escapees, lol. Josie seemed sane compared to them, lol. Rob tells me Josie also brought a friend along as we were walking toward his car at around 8:40 ish that she met on the bus or something like that. Pretty funny - she was 21 with a very revealing shirt and made her chest pop out like Pepsi, but eh. To each their own. LOL It was funny when he rang our doorbell and of course he was tall enough to look into the door windows to which I have to go on my toes to look through, and he was making these faces and ringing the doorbell more than once. I almost forgot my keys and had to go back in and I said bye to Jeff.
Rob was like, "Oh, if I knew you weren't alone in the house, I would have only rang the doorbell once." Haha oh well. The night weather was almost perfect. It wasn't hot, it wasn't cold either, just a cool breeze, the sky a graying blue. I could smell rain even though I couldn't feel it. "Aren't you cold?" I asked him as we walked toward his car, just for the sake of asking a question. "Hell no," he replies. "It feels so nice out here." I agreed and he updates me of the darkened shadows of heads in the backseat of his car.
For some reason, the fact that I wasn't the only person going with him to wherever didn't bother me as much as I thought it would. In fact, it made me slightly more comfortable. To hear voices and conversations going on behind us as he drove the car and spoke only to me made me more at ease, somehow. His dusty blue Cadillac WAS like a boat as he had previously once told me, but I liked it. But I didn't let on as much as I would have. He was muttering about my early curfew and I just smiled, amused at the fact that he cared and respected the time in which he would have to return me to the house but he thought the time we had to hang out was short. It was true though. And Josie and the girl in the back asked me how old I was, and you know, blah blah blah. But I felt like they could poke fun at my early curfew as much as they wanted. I didn't care. Just as long as I got to sit in the front seat with Rob, instead of in the backseat. That totally made my day as I sat back and rolled down the windows, my hand held out and flying against the wind, my hair randomly whiplashing against my skull. These would be what I called good times as both Rob and I saw lightning illuminate the darkening sky at the same time and yelled out simultaneously. THAT was awesome, I would have to say, mmmhm.
"Maybe we should just go park somewhere and have a picnic and watch the lightning," He was grinning at me. "Haha, I'm all trying to be cheap now."
"That'd be fine with me," I said honestly. Then it started raining a little and I commented on that. "It was all sunny today and now it's raining again."
"Yep, Portland tends to do that," He replies.
"But it feels nice," I say, my hand outstretched to catch the cool drops that fell from overhead.
He glanced a little toward me and nodded slightly. "Yeah," he half smiled. "Yeah it does." Who knows what he was thinking at the moment. So we were having our own little conversation in the front and we didn't realize it but Josie was telling us to roll up the window because she was getting slightly drenched. I thought about how quietly we were talking with each other and she was practically yelling her head off and we couldn't hear her. How weird, and I quickly apologized over and over and Rob pushed the button that rolled up the window. I was slightly embarrassed, not to mention.
So we went to PSU where Josie told us they had pool and air hockey, including cosmic bowling and arcade games. We got out of the car and the two girls quickly made it across the street ahead of us, and I almost went after them when Rob caught a hold of my sweater and dragged me back from the street. "OFF the road," He orders and I laughed at how worried he looked. I knew there were cars coming, but it was funny all the same as I had to adjust my sweater that hung off my shoulder because of his manhandling. I'm kidding.
So we ran after the girls, getting a little rained on and I was surprised at how far Rob hung back from the chicklets, so I slowed down too, not wanting to leave him too far behind. The girls went ahead and I looked behind me once we were in the building and he made a gesture to go through this one door, as though to sneak off somewhere and leave the girls behind. I shook my head and laughed silently. Yeah right. Maybe later. lol
He waited around the corner as the girls went to the loo and I waited outside the Women's bathroom, looking at various flyers stuck on corkscrew bulletins, and they came out and I walked with them, seemingly as though I had been in the loo with them all along and we Rob sitting against the wall in front of the men's. He looked tired but we rushed ahead anyway. We went and played pool, Rob and I against Josie and her friend. I sucked at it, but then again, so did he. The 21 year old was pretty damn good, but then again, she WAS 21. In the middle of playing pool, she takes off her outer shirt and letting it all hang out, and I try to glance at where Rob's eyes were, and of course he would look, I would look too, haha but whatever. He didn't pay that much attention to her, it was weird. And of course Josie, almost my height with dirty blonde/brown hair with turquoise streaks in the back and front, was a bit goofy but I liked her. She made things easier to flow with. Rob buys some candy - Charleston and Laffy Taffy while Josie gets some Mug rootbeer, and the girl gets some M&M's. I didn't have to pay a cent! LOL
While Rob went and bought another game of pool, I went and tried on his hat and the NY insignia on it. I didn't think he would catch me; I figured I'd have it put back by the time he came back, but I was adjusting it and I look up and there he was looking at me, and I self-consciously rip the hat off and throw it against the wall where it was before, and it hits the window and drops to the floor. Everybody laughs and I have the guilty/embarrassed look. Ah well. Later on he gets the hat and dusts it off, giving me this meaningful look like "why youuu...." I just shrug and chuckle. It was weird though, during the pool game. We'd be standing side by side and I feel him staring at me and I look over, glaring at him. "What're you looking at?" I say, swatting him on the arm and he just shakes his head, chuckling. What the hell does that mean??
Once more I go over to him and try to get another bite of his Charleston, and he gives me a questioning look before he gives it to me. "How about a 'please,' or a kiss or something?" In exchange for the candy, and as I chew thoughtfully I say, "How about please?" and I smile and walk away. A kiss huh? Ha. While it wasn't either of us who was taking their shot at pool, he'd be doing the Kung Fu Hustle Axe dance while he's looking at me and I'd be laughing to myself. He does it really well, I swear to god and it's hilarious as hell. Then while I'm taking the shot, he'd be doing his Frodo Baggins impression and almost making me miss a shot. I swear he gets his jollies by making me laugh. Ah well. Once when I was talking to him, my throat was acting up again, and broke in the middle of my sentence and I say that I'm starting to lose my voice. "It's okay," he says solemnly, looking me in the eye. "You don't need to talk anyway," and I kick him slightly, and he laughs and says, "No! I didn't mean it that way -" I knew he didn't, I just wanted to make it seem like he did. Before he made some comment that I can't remember, and I accidently hit him with my pool stick in between the legs. HILARIOUS. He's all, "Hey now, I don't need anything stuck in between my legs."
"Well, good for you," was all I could think of to say.
Towards the end of the second game of pool, he says he doesn't want to play anymore and goes over and tries his hand at the arcade games. The girls amuse themselves with air hockey while I go over and observe him. "What are you playing?" I ask, watching him point the gun at the screen. "Area 51" he says and aims at aliens, joking around as he shoots at their crotchal area. "See, that's the spot you get them, right there..." and I just laugh my ass off. Must be the caffeine.
"Why don't you hold it gangsta style?" I say, referring to the gun, and he does and shakes his head, saying, "It's hard though, aiming with it like that," making me laugh harder. *sigh*
After he loses the game, he asks if I want to play a game with him. "Okay," I agree. "Which one?" He gives me a choice of two of the fighting games and I say it doesn't matter to me, so he chooses the Marvel fighting game, consisting of Marvel characters of the comics. He leans down to my level, looks over at me, then at the screen, almost mocking my height, lol. I choose to be a team of Spiderman and Wolverine, and he chooses...Well, I just know one's a girl, and the other is Cyclops, lol. Must be the caffeine or something, but I just start punching all six buttons simultaneously, and he's losing. Who knows if he's letting me win though. "I'm just winging it," I say. "Just punching buttons - it's just what caffeine does to me."
"But you're really good at it, the whole winging it and punching buttons thing," He comments and I just shrug. "Ah, Wolverine and Cyclops are arch enemies, you know."
"Of course, because of Jean," I say and he seems amazed.
"Oh, so you know the story huh," He quietly exclaims since he thinks he's the only one who has read Marvel comics before, and I'm like, "of course I do, hehe. I wanna be The Phoenix, because she can do anything."
"Yeah, the Phoenix is tight," He agrees. Once I beat him, I am challenged by a different opponent and beat him too. After that I look over at Rob as he's watching my progress and I back away from the controls. "Here," I say, physically moving him by my hands on his back and pushing and pulling him to where I was. "You do it!" I didn't want him to get bored just standing there and watching me. So he's like, "Oh-kay," and starts pushing buttons and I help him a little, by punching buttons right along with him and we yell at the screen at the same time. For a little while I forget about the other girls we came here with.
Once it was all over, we start walking toward the pool table area where the air hockey was, and he says, "That was intense, Miriam. Very intense." I just smile and agree. "Yeah. Yeah it was."
We start heading back toward the car since it was 10 already, and we started walking off without the girls, so I stepped in front of this gigantic fan to cool myself off and he just stood there, watching me. To pass the silence, I started talking about rapping really fast, like Twista, and that gets him going. He says he's been rapping for 2 years, etc. We come to this long hallway with slight curving hills and earlier we saw chairs with wheels and we talk about how cool it would be if we got some of those and wheeled it down that hallway. I just knew we would do that next time, because earlier he tested one of the chairs out and flew on it, then banged against a wall. It was SO funny.
We start heading for the car outside, taking the long way there since we were on the other side of the building, and I made to go cross the street because the girls were already there and didn't see him move in front of me so I just ran into him. He was all, "What the -" And I just shook my head and said, "I was gonna push you out into the street, sorry --" Then suddenly he stopped, and so I stopped also and he says, "Listen," and he puts his hand on my neck for like, two seconds, and I turned away quickly as a car was passing by us and I saw our chance to cross the road, so we did. We walked side by side to the car with the girls a little ways behind us, and I didn't say anything about it again but instead asked him where he put the car, and he points up ahead and says, "I think I put it where that blue Cadillac is," and I just mumble "retard" as I smile and look away, commenting on this big metal structure/art piece to our left. I have no idea what it was. So anyways, yeah.
So. Of course I've wondered who Josie was to Rob. On the ride home, he tells her something about how everybody would be over at Josie's bedroom tonight, and she was like, "What? Come on now, Rob, be nice," or something to that extent, and he says, "I'm just messing with you, Josie - You're the only person I'd feel comfortable teasing you in that way, so take it as a sign of our friendship," And I was smiling at myself in the window. Friendship, ah, what a wonderful word, lol. Oh yeah, there's this thing that takes your picture if you cross the line at a red light, and guess what. That's what happened to Rob. LOL IT was SOOO funny, ah well. He needed a lesson, seriously.
Almost during the whole ride home we all talked in British accents, it was soo funny! "yes, Suh, Very good, suh" Rob says, then Josie starts singing that one song from the Labyrinth, "Voodoo, you do, remind me of the babe..." and I was all, "Yep, David Bowie. He wore the tightest pants ever." And she laughs and says, "Hell yeah, you could see his package," and I look over and Rob's all shaking his head, muttering to himself, "This is the weirdest conversation ever." and I go on about the movie, and Josie and I agree on the little worm with the scarf and hat saying, "Don't go that way! If you go that way, you'd have gone straight to the castle!" HAHAHAA Anyways.
I tell him that Rosalba wanted me to tell him something in Spanish, but I forgot what it was. "It probably was something like 'Marry Me' or something," He retorts and I give him my unamused look. "But yeah, I asked her to tell me like, five times, but I forgot it anyway."
"That's the same way I am," He says. But the funny thing was, I knew exactly what it was she said. She wanted me to tell him, "Give me a piece of your heart," in Spanish or something to that effect. It sounded too loaded with cheese, but what can you do? LOL we get to my house and he tells me he'll see me at work on Friday, and I get out and Josie gets into the front with him and I close the door for her.
That was my night. Great night, eh? Hehe. ;)
;it's something sophiscated.
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