In the days after asking Rydia out, my mind flew through several directions in a panicked frenzy as I tried to figure out what I should do about her. Do I stay the course and let her be my platonic date? Should I just sell the tickets and forget about this whole event? If anything, I could also have easily asked any other girl out.
Then again... actually, I wouldn't say "easily." At that time, asking a girl out was an epic challenge for me. But moving right along.
As the days to the night of the Broadway show dwindled down, there was one girl that I considered asking out. Her name was Nicole, and she was one of my fellow colleagues in the graphic design major at Hunter College. She was an okay girl; nothing to get excited about. The only thing that really stood out for her was her hipster flair that was commonplace in the art and design field. The downside to a commuter school is that most of the girls already have a significant other, so that made finding a date that much more difficult.
About two weeks before the show, I gave her a call and explained to her that I had tickets for Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and asked her if she would like to join me. She enthusiastically said yes, and rightfully so; she had never seen a Broadway play before, so that would have been an exciting first time for her. Come to think of it though, I don't think she ever got the hint that I was asking her out on a date.
Whatever the case was, everything looked like things might turn out just fine for me. The only problem was that I was trying to escape Rydia, and I knew that doing so was probably counterproductive on all counts. After all, our friends were all unanimously against her relationship with Marv, so many of them saw the potential for a lot of good coming out of me dating her. Rosa was especially curious about where this would all lead.
Since few secrets were ever kept sacred in our group, Rosa quickly caught onto me trying to slip away. I had a feeling that she would eventually get in touch with me to see what my progress was, and lo and behold, less than a week before the show, I was at home winding down when my phone rang.
"Hey, are you still taking Rydia out to see the show?," she asked.
"I dunno, I wasn't sure what to do, so I asked this girl in my class instead," I replied.
"What?! What about Rydia?"
"I just... it's just that I don't know what I should be doing."
By then, I was lost in a sea of emotional confusion. I continued on to explain how I've been struggling to find a good way to resolve this. It was a crazy idea to buy those tickets before actually asking anyone out, but the intent was to force myself to go through with a plan of action, and at that point, Nicole and I were all set for a dinner date that was just days away. What else could I possibly do? But then she then asked a question that pierced through the entire crazed frenzy that my mind was engulfed in, and made its way through to me.
"Who do you really want to go with?"
The answer was clear: it was Rydia. The tickets were meant for her, and deep down, I knew that there couldn't possibly be any other girl that I would want on that night out.
And so, I called Rydia that same night and asked her if she was still up for it. She said yes. Rosa placed me back on a road that I had wandered astray from, and I set the time, place, and date for dinner and the show. I have Rosa to thank for a lot of the little things that have greatly affected my life in a good way, and in doing what she did, I was all set for a date that really helped me figure myself out as a person.
As for Nicole, I felt bad having to brush her off, but thankfully, the excuse I came up with was plausible. The night of the show was very close to Christmas, so I told her that my folks made last-minutes plans to host a family gathering for the holidays, and that I had to sell the tickets to a friend of mine. The lie worked flawlessly, and that was the end of that.
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