Part Two!

Well, as you can see it is not tomorrow... I blame it on my parents. I was supposed to write the next part of the story on the drive back from Spokane but instead I drove the whole six hours and then Monday I was running around doing things for them ‘cause that’s just the kind of wonderful daughter I am.

(Ok… so it took a few days to write it too…enjoy the reading! And it may be a mile long but don’t give up. I promise it’s awesome. I wrote it so it has to be, right?

Now, to pick up where we left off…

Kayla went to a movie with the boys and after that she spent almost every Sunday evening at their apartment playing games. They were all so much fun it was ridiculous. Every night Kayla would leave thinking “Too bad Kevin has a girlfriend. He’s tall and cute and best of all, he is REALLY funny!” (His sense of humor was incredibly similar to her own, so how could he not be funny?) Of course she didn’t really know that he had a girlfriend, but remember, she was a creeper and she had learned all sorts of things about him without his knowing it and one of those things was that he had a girlfriend.

Kayla couldn’t quite figure out what was going on with this apartment of boys. Tyler had asked for her number and was always the one to invite her to do things. That was until another one of their roommates, Tanner, texted her out of the blue and started texting her to do things, but most importantly she still couldn’t figure out if Kevin really had a girlfriend. (Her friends pointed out that if he did have a girlfriend then it was extremely suspicious that he would spend almost every weekend with her.) She wondered how good of friends they even were, I mean she still didn’t have his phone number and as far as she knew he didn’t have hers. Anytime she would invite the guys to go do things (like visiting IHOP at 2:00am on a Tuesday – which they tried to get out of, but thank goodness for text messages that don’t come through when they are supposed to) she would send a message to Tyler and Tanner and ask them both to make sure that Kevin knew about it and that he was invited. It was all very strange. Kayla was certainly curious why this boy (Kevin) didn’t seem to want her number when she definitely wanted his – if only to make sure that she could invite him to all the activities because she always seemed to have more fun when he was there. Hmm…dilemma…

Halloween was coming up, and one night while she was over visiting the guys apartment to play card games she mentioned that it would be strange to not be able to do a haunted corn maze since she had been doing one for years back home. That night they all decided that they should go to the haunted corn maze nearby. Oddly, it was actually Kayla that was kind of heading the activity – this was surprising since in the not too distant past she was afraid to even talk to guys, she spent most of her time alone, and she would never have dreamed of inviting anyone anywhere because she was terrified of rejection. The group for the visit to the corn maze included Kayla’s roommates from the previous year, the new apartment of guys she had met as well as a few other miscellaneous people.

Upon arrival at Cornbilly’s the group purchased their wristbands and headed off to have a great time of running through a darkened maze while having being scared half to death. Kayla’s old roommates were too scared to do the haunted maze so they took off towards the regular corn maze leaving Kayla with the Kevin, Tyler and Tanner. They all wanted to go to the haunted maze so they hiked over there only to find that the maze was only open on the weekends and they were there on a Thursday. Of course.

Still wanting to do a maze they headed back to where they had started but now they were separated from the other group. They probably would have been able to get through a lot faster if the darn boys hadn’t kept cutting through the walls (which, by the way, was against the rules). There were two sections of the maze and they kept starting in one and ending up in the other. Darn boys and their need to cut corners. It took them about a year and a half to get through the maze but Kayla started to think this may have been a part of Kevin’s plan because with their long legs they kept pulling ahead of the other two in their group and they walked through most of the maze side by side. (Kayla was pretty sure at this point that Kevin didn’t have a girlfriend anymore, by the way.) Kayla had a great time talking to Kevin. It only made her realize how much fun he was and how much she enjoyed having him as a friend. It also reminded her that she didn’t have his number and she resolved to ask for it when it wouldn’t be too awkward. She just needed to be casual. Riiiiggghhttt….Eventually they cut through enough walls to get to an exit (the wrong one mind you) and they decided to enjoys some of the other attractions such as the giant blow up Lizard.

The idea of the blow up Lizard was this: You enter the mouth and work your way through its insides until you eventually walk out from beneath its tail. Strange concept, but surprisingly fun. It was pitch dark, and there were random inflated walls all over the place. For a scardy cat like Kayla it was somewhat terrifying to be stumbling through the dark, bouncing off walls. And she couldn’t help but scream when someone unexpectedly popped out from behind a wall. At least these people hadn’t intended to be scary – Kevin on the other hand kept trying to get away from the group so he could hide behind the walls and scare them. At one point he even resorted to crawling on his hands and knees to get away but Kayla caught him every time. He thinks he’s so sneaky. THINK AGAIN!

When they finally met up with the other half of their group they decided, with much urging from Kevin, that they should all go through the monster again. Why you ask? Because, they had spent fourteen dollars to get in to this place and they weren’t going to leave until they had some serious fun! In they went. This time Kayla didn’t do quite as good a job of keeping track of Kevin and as soon as she noticed he was gone she became very jumpy as she approached each corner. And for good reason. As she rounded one of the corners somewhere near the heart of the beast someone jumped out and grabbed her waist! She was preparing to beat the crap out of the creeper who touched her when she spun around and realized it was just silly old Kevin. Once she realized it was just her friend she punched him in the gut, laughed and ran away. (It wasn’t the most graceful run away in history as she bounced off a few walls…but it got her away from the mean boy so…)

By the time they finished playing on the various contraptions out in the cold October air it was about 1:00. Perfect time for breakfast! (Is there ever a time that’s not perfect for breakfast though?) To IHOP! As Kayla and Kevin were walking to the table Kayla decided it would be a good time to casually bring up the fact that she didn’t have his number. The conversation went a little like this:

Kayla: “So, I’m beginning to wonder if we’re really friends. I mean I have the numbers of both your roommates but I don’t have yours.”

Kevin: “Yeah, I don’t really give out my number.” *big cheesy grin* (In his head: ha ha! I so funny! I tease her and she will fall for me for sure!)

*awkward silence*

Kayla: “Ok. I guess we’re not friends then…That’s cool. (In her head: So… does he really not want to give me his number…or is he just teasing me? I guess I’ll tease back and see what happens) I guess you don’t need my number then either. Good. We’ll keep things the way they are then.”

Kevin:”That’s perfect. I don’t really need yours”

*they walk awkwardly to the table while chuckling uncomfortably*

Kayla: (In her head: this did not go as planned)

As they all moved to the table it’s not really clear who sat by whom but they did indeed end up sitting next to one another. However, they ended up sitting uncomfortably at the table for a few minutes while looking at the menus and Kayla needed to fidget so she ripped off her wristband and started folding it and playing with it. After a few more minutes of uncomfortable silence (the teasing had definitely taken a wrong turn somewhere) Kayla finally decided she needed to break the tension so she whipped a pen out of her purse, wrote her number on the wristband and pushed it in front of Kevin as she said “well, someone’s going to have to bend.” You see, she really wanted to have his number but she figured as long as he had hers that was something. They spent the rest of breakfast joking and laughing and generally having a great time. Finally Kevin asked to borrow Kayla’s pen and he started writing on his napkin. He wouldn’t let her see as he was writing so she figured he might actually be giving her his number. When he kind of pushed the napkin between them she got really excited but then said it wasn’t for her, it was for Steve, their waiter. Hmmm… should she be worried about this boy? Finally she got up the courage to grab the napkin and take a look and sure enough, it was written for Steve. In fact it said: “Hey Steve, if you’re looking for a good time call Kevin at: 208-313-248_.” She laughed, hoped it was a joke and stuck the napkin in her purse as she they were walking out of the restaurant. (Kayla kept the napkin for a long time until one day it disappeared in her black hole of a room - - Kevin however still has the wristband she gave him - - he is much more romantic than she, for instance he always remembers how long they’ve been dating, Kayla not so much.)

Kayla safely drove the boys home, although you might hear a different story from the boys who were a little scared by her excellent U-turn skills. As she was locking her car she looked over and was shocked to see that Kevin was still standing on the other side of her car. (The strangest part was that this wasn’t the first time this had happened to Kayla this year – although she turned down the first guy to go to that first movie with Kevin and his roommates…) Kevin looked a tad bit uncomfortable as he blurted out “So, some friends and I are going four-wheeling this Saturday and I was wondering if you would want to go.” Kayla hesitantly responded that it sounded really fun. She was ‘hesitant’ for a couple of reasons. First, she wasn’t sure it was a date and second, if this was a date it would be the third date of her entire life and the first two were less than stellar. However, she always had an amazing time with him in the past and no matter what she was sure she would have a good time if it actually pulled through. The next day she was extremely excited and she couldn’t wait until Saturday to see if it would really happen.

Yes, it’s true you’ve made it to the end of this ridiculously long blog post and the adorable couple still has not been on their first date. I guess you’ll just have to wait until I get my butt in gear again and get around to finishing the story… I figure I should give you a little time to recover from the length of this one first though so I figure I’m off the hook for at least another week right?