Saturday, July 28, 2007

Amanda

It's been a while, what with moving and everything else, but finally, an update!

Amanda. No longer interested. Yes, she's amazing in bed, but after our last meeting, we agreed to go out. I met her from work, and she left a change of clothes there for the next day, saying "I'm not even going to ask if I'm staying at yours tonight - it's pretty much a given, isn't it?" Sounds good so far. We went to Jaks - she had no money, so I paid and bought her drinks. She was being friendly with my mates, but not so much with me - in fact, when I put my arm around her once, she pulled away.

About half an hour in, she starts chatting with this group of lads. She's blatantly interested, but seems confused. We go outside so she can have a smoke (thanks, smoking ban), and the first words out of her mouth are "We need to get you laid tonight", which pretty much says it all.

I just said "Look, you've clearly pulled, so just go with it if that's what you want." About 10 minutes later I went to the toilets, and when I got back, I saw her with her tongue down this guys throat. I just left them to it.

Now don't get me wrong. Amanda made it clear that she was single, and that we were just fuck buddies. Although I think we've got potential to be more, I'm fine with that. What I'm not fine with is going out with someone, and then purposely ditching that person to go with someone else. Fuck buddy or just a friend, if you're out as just the two of you, common courtesy says you don't just ditch that person.

More importantly though, Amanda made one thing very clear that night: I'm always going to be her second best - the one she comes to when either her current boyfriend has dumped her, or just when she can't find anyone else and feels horny. I'm fine with that concept, apart from two things: I like her, and this has potential to get dangerous and painful; and although I don't mind being a fallback shag for when she's been out with other people and hasn't pulled, I draw the line at coming second to a stranger when it's me she's out with.

I think every relationship should have an 'our song.' Granted, Amanda and me have never had a proper relationship, but this has been going on and off pretty much since I broke up with Tracy, so I think it's deserving of it's own song. And here it is: