okay... so some advice and encouragement needed. also, this is a very long read. i apologise in advance.
me and my last girlfriend broke up at the end of january, as discussed in various other threads. now, that was pretty bad, but i did the usual thing and started going out with my mates more, made easier by the fact my best mate's a dj and got me in free to his club.
there were two girls i met in those first few weeks, kelly and ciara. i spent a while talking to kelly but didn't seem to be getting anywhere, ciara was being far more receptive so i invited her out for my birthday and then asked her out. unfortunately, between me asking her out and us going out, she started seeing someone else. still, she met me as we'd arranged and apologised face to face and we actually had quite a nice evening. and then i went home and slept with my ex, because that's, of course, the healthy thing to do.
after that, my ex pretty much made sure that my attention was drawn towards her the majority of the time, despite saying i needed to get over her and move on she'd tease me almost constantly. eventually i moved out and, although we were still spending every day together, it was slightly easier. eventually she moved back to her parents and we went down to speaking only once or twice a week. for at least an hour, admittedly, but it was better, i was going out, thinking about her less and generally feeling pretty bulletproof.
by this point, i'd become really good friends with ciara and had been getting to know her boyfriend pretty well. i still saw kelly every week but because i still felt really messed up over my ex, i wasn't making the effort to talk her, or anyone else really. plus, she's a student so she eneded up going home for the summer.
a couple of months ago, the guy that my ex left me for broke up with her and we started talking a lot more, twice a day on average. she'd calle me while she was on lunch at work and i'd call her in the evening. not long after that, she came back to cardiff to visit me and then two weeks after that, i went back to london to visit her. the number of phone calls increased to the point where she'd occaisionally call me in the morning before work and would without fail call me at least once more after that. A couple of weeks ago, I went to stay with her in her new student house because the other girls hadn't moved in yet and she was finding it hard settling in. 5 days together was actually very nice and i realised how much i missed her company. one thing became obvious from that, however, despite the fact i wasn't over her, she wasn't interested in getting back together in the slightest.
so this is now about three weeks later and enrollment was on saturday. queue 4 phone calls, each of which being quite ratty, stressed and unhappy, the final one being at about half past 11 when i was out at a club with my mates. i was a bit bored and plus i'm far too nice to her so cue me taking out half an hour of my night to stand outside the club on the phone to her crying at me and trying to cheer her up, looking at things from every angle i could and seemingly only making her more upset. eventually, i got fed up and pointed out that one of the reasons she broke up with me, she said, was that she wanted to learn to stand on her own two feet but all she'd done since was use aj as a crutch and since he broke up with her, she's been depending on me a lot with little thanks. so she said she wouldn't call me anymore. ever. i sighed. fine, okay, whatever.
now, this probably isn't something i would have done if not for the fact that kelly came back to uni last week and i ended up pulling her on friday. i was utterly trashed and feel really bad that i wasn't more sober and in control plus i totally forgot to ask for her number but did promise i'd be out next week and asked her to come out the next night.
now, she's sort of friends with my best mate (the dj) and we essentially met through him. we're friends on myspace, so despite the fact we didn't exchange numbers, she could still contact me through there or through my mate. i even dropped her a quick message to say hello and ask how her weekend was.
i'm probably being far too overly analytical but the fact that i haven't heard from her is making me really paranoid. probably something to do with the fact that i'm fairly convinced she's far too hot for me. i dunno. i should probably just play it cool and wait until friday when she'll be out again, no doubt. i'm going to see some bands tomorrow night and that seemed like a good opportunity to ask her out... i dunno...
anyway, my myspace profile's
www.myspace.com/elegia_xo. kelly's number 16 (Smelzo Pants) on my top friends (and, just for the record, the above mentioned ex is number 1(*Sam*). as an interesting side note, my first serious girlfriend is also on there, Trouble. she got married over the weekend. seems strange that i've got an ex who's now married. bit less odd, considering she's 8 years older than me (and hot), but still...

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