So, summer 2012 everything was looking rosy for me. Me and Annie kept our long distance flirting going on, I'd already started making plans to go visit her in September, and every now and then I was going to out at night to go hang out with my friend Pedro, who sometimes DJ'ed in a few different bars. You'll remember him, I'd worked with him at the music store some years before, and he eventually hooked up with my ex-girlfriend Ana - the one to whom I'd confessed my dream of one day having a baby girl called Cassandra, and with whom he had a baby girl called... Cassandra. But Pedro and me always got along really well, and we'd never let someone get between us.
And he had this group of Facebook friends and acquaintances with whom I interacted online as well, and it was always a pleasure to talk to them. So, in due time, the occasion for us all to get together and for everyone to meet each other came about. It was in one of Pedro's gigs, and I got to meet the whole crew : Miss Mary, a really nice guy who I'll call 'M.B.', and who was interested in the aforemetioned Miss Mary, and a couple of other girls : Marta and Sofia. I knew all of them online, but this is was my first time meeting them. By the time that night ended, I'd gained a new admirer - Marta.
Now, Marta wasn't shy about letting me know how interested in me she was, though I always rebuffed her. I told her the ongoing story between me and Annie, but still, that didn't deter her. But Marta... well, I just didn't - couldn't - look at her that way. I just wasn't attracted to her in any way, and it wasn't just that she was a big girl - and who am I to complain about anyone's size or weight when I'm usually far from my own ideal weight - but she had an abrasive, obssessive personality that was quite off-putting. And indeed, how could she - how could anyone, really - measure up to what I thought was on my horizon - Annie.
As for the other girl, Sofia, well... I knew Pedro was trying to win her affections, so I didn't really pay much attention to her. I found out then that they'd known each other for ages, lived right by each other, and that was pretty much it. There was no point in getting to know her much more than that. Funny how things turn out.
As summer moved on, and as my trip to be with Annie was fast approaching, Annie... well, I was going to say she panicked, but no, everything was rational and deliberate. Whatever doubts she had about me - about us - just proved to be far too much for her to deal with. And I have to say... it hurt. I'd really gotten my hopes up. But I should have known that Annie really would always be far out of my league.
So what happened a couple of days before I was scheduled to leave? Well, Sofia and I'd been talking online for the past few weeks, and we agreed to meet up in person - just the two of us.
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