Our First Date

Prior to our courtship, Jared was my home teacher.  As my home teacher, he would call to set up a time to come visit.  He'd bring his companion, Bryan Koopman along and they'd visit and ask if I needed assistance with anything.  As mentioned in an earlier post, I was attracted to Jared from the moment I laid eyes on him.  So, when he'd ask if there's anything that he could do for me, I wanted to say, "Yeah, let's go makeout."  However, having some amount of self control, I'd refrain and simply answer, 'no'.  Well, after a few months of being visited by Jared and Bryan.  I became good friends with Jared.  He'd call once a month to set up an appointment with me and we'd end up talking for hours.  In fact, one night, we talked from 8:30pm-2:00am!  After his relationship with Heather ended, I noticed he became more flirtatious  during our chats by phone and in person.  As one of his visits was coming to an end and I was walking him out to his car, he said, "You know there's a lot of guys that would like to date you."  I have no idea what I said after that.  Well, actually, that's a lie.  I do know what I said but it was stupid.  Therefore, I have no intention of sharing it on my blog.  Anyway, a few days later, there was a fireside at the Church.  Afterwards, Jared and I were hanging out.  When I got home later that night, there was a message on my cellphone.  He'd asked me on a date!  FINALLY!!!  The only problem was, I was still dating a guy.  Yeah, I know, I was a bit of a player.  Actually, you probably have no idea how big of a player I was--and, again, I have no intention of sharing that information on my public blog.  So, back to my story.  The night I received the call from Jared, I called him back and we talked for a few hours.  We were both extremely tired at work the next day.  Then again, when you're living life as an LDS single WHEN are you NOT tired at work the next day?!  hee hee  Two days later, I broke up with my boyfriend.  I won't go into detail on that because...it'll only show how much of a devil I am.  Later that week, on Saturday, I was working at Mervyn's until 9:30pm.  I rushed home from work and hurried to get ready for my date with hottest guy in town.  I wore tight (but not too tight) black pants with a burgundy sweater, black boots, and I wore my hair straight (that means I REALLY wanted to look good).  He showed up and I was ecstatic!  My parents were nervous because I'd mentioned fifty-thousand times how much I like Jared.  So, after chatting with them for a few moments we left.  He took me to dinner at Applebee's.  He had chicken strips with ranch dressing (he spilled a little on his shirt) and I ended up only having a brownie dessert.  He knew it would be a really late date so he just planned on taking me to a movie.  He'd cut out the newspaper clipping and asked if I'd enjoy seeing 'Elf'.  I definitely was interested in seeing that movie but--I was more interested in being with Jared. haha  We drove to the theatre, walked inside and observed an empty theatre.  The gates were closed behind the counter.   Jared told them we were there to see 'Elf'.  They looked at us rather strangely and said it wasn't playing.  What?!  It was only 11:20pm.  As far as we were concerned the movie had started at 11:10pm.  We walked back out to the car, Jared looked at the newspaper clipping another time and started laughing.  The movie 'Elf' was showing at that theatre.  However, it was an 11:10 AM showing not an 11:10pm. hahahhahahhahhahha  We got a good laugh out of that.  We drove to his house where we watched a movie, graded an "Anti-Mormon Literature paper"  he had received from someone and held hands on his parent's couch that we now own.  You can assume that more than kissing has been done on that couch now. hahahahhahha  Aren't you glad I told you?  By the way, he tried to kiss me a million times that night.  I was trying to play hard to get--and let me tell you, after liking the guy for 9 months before our first date------THAT WAS HARD!  Anyway, we kissed on the second date so it was fine.  Oh, and our second date took place on the following Tuesday, we saw the movie 'Elf' at 11:10 AM. :)