One of my sister’s friends, to my sister, at a party tonight: “I think Sarah has a thing for your brother.”
My sister: “Nah, they’ve been that way for six years.”
The funny thing is, it’s true. We’ve always had a weird thing whereby officially, she’s my sister’s friend, but whenever she came over, she ended up spending more time with me than my sister. She was the first girl that I ever made romantic advances towards, which unfortunately were rejected. Still, for the last four years, there’s been some degree of carefully suppressed mutual attraction whenever we meet.
She’s everything I look for in a woman: smart, funny, independent, with enough shared interests that I can talk to her intelligently about subjects we are both interested in. And she’s completely unavailable, as for 8 months of the year we live two hours from each other and the rest of the time I’m running from one summer activity to another.
In the course of my life, I’ve known exactly two women posessing so many desirable qualities, and though I befriended both of them, I never dated either.
My big hope for the next 10 years is that I manage to meet a woman like her, but available. Perhaps even her, after college. Because she is the type of woman I hope eventually to marry.
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