The rest of the break

I spent that night with my best friend, Jennifer. I told her that, although I stayed at the party with him, I did not like David "like that". I had always liked guys that I had known most of my life, who's families I knew and who I was already comfortable with on a friend level. It was weird to me to imagine dating anyone who wasn't that. I went through the rest of the break convincing myself, and others, that I had no interest in David. Towards the end of the break, I found out that David was having the basketball team over to his parent's house (because they have a big basement with a big screen TV) to watch a football game. I was going out to dinner with a friend who dated a guy on the basketball team and we decided to go crash the party. We looked David's parents' address up on the Internet and then drove around and around looking for it. They have a "North" at the beginning of their street name and we didn't realize that was significant in the actual address, because it was just listed as "N.". There is a street about 1/2 a mile from them named the same thing only without the "North" and that's what we had typed in on the Internet to find the directions. Fortunately, there is no house on that street with the same number, or we would have shown up at a stranger's house late at night! Finally, we called the guys and they had to ask David about it, and then we realized our oversight. Once we got there I was so cool and totally aloof and pretty much ignored David the whole time...that way he was aware that I didn't like him "like that". Smooth, I know. The only interaction we had that night was when he snuck up behind me and bent down and said pretty loudly to the side of my face, "North!". And I jumped out of my chair really quickly like I was scared out of my mind. And he said, "it always helps if you have the name of the street right." I just rolled my eyes and went back to my conversation...see how I was still playing it cool? I also went on a tour of his parents' house that he took me and some other people on. But, other than that, I kept our contact to a minimum. After that party though and seeing him again, I was starting to let myself think more and more about the possibility of the two of us together.

The only other time I was around David before I went back to school was at a basketball game. I knew a lot of the families were going out to dinner after the game and I was sure that David would go with us. After the game, I saw my parents talking to David. I made my way over there, and right as I got to them they said "bye" and David turned and walked away. I felt a little bit of disappointment. After all, how would I play hard to get if he was walking away before I could start to be aloof? I asked my parents, just real cool like and very nonchalantly, if David was coming with everyone to eat. They said that he had some family thing to go to, so he couldn't come. That was it, my last chance to see him before I went back to school and he wasn't coming.