CHAPTER 3 THINGS GET SERIOUS

CHAPTER 3 THINGS GET SERIOUS

I met her years back in high school, she was younger than me and we never really noticed each other. Through our mutual associates we ended up becoming friends but nothing ever sparked. Well of course I thought she was hot but I never imagined anything would happen between us. Fortunately after high school all that would change. I remember our first kiss was on New Year’s Eve of the millennium. From then on we were instantly into each other, it was almost as if we had always wanted each other we just didn’t know it until now. After a few weeks of both us trying to play it cool with the other, we were officially a couple. I had never felt like this before. Her touch. Her voice. Her smell was my whole world. She had this Latin flavor to her that just drove me wild. She always wore sexy, yet classy, high heels and by the way she had very nice feet (a not so unusual prerequisite I have for dating anyone).

You could always hear her walking into a room but even more than that you could feel her presence; she was one of those truly hot women that could raise the temperature just by being there. But enough about my infatuation with her the point is that we were one of those extremely happy young couples that make you want to vomit all over yourself. Which I totally understand now. She was just finishing high school, I was still in community college and we had the whole world in front of us. We made plans for such a great future together and we followed through on all of them and lived happily ever after. THE END.

…Ok so maybe that last part was a lie.

We actually didn’t follow through on any of those plans. I guess what they said in MR and MRS Smith is true happy endings are just stories that haven’t finished yet. Luisa was always a dreamer and had many aspirations one of which was going to college in Miami Florida, and who was I to hold her back. Not a girl like that she was destined for bigger and better things.

We spend an amazing summer together, one of the best of my life. Not a care in the world, no real bills, no responsibilities because all we would do with our spare time was have amazing passionate sex. I still smoked a lot of pot and as for Luisa she never smoked herself but did not care that I did at all. In fact she used to like to give me blowjobs while I smoked my blunts and yes it was as good as it sounds. My life was so simple then unfortunately I did not appreciate it as much as I should have because in the flight of life time adds nothing but more turbulence. As for us, our original plan was to break up and rock the old cliché of just being friends. But we were way too young and in love to make a sane logical decision like that. Just a week before she leaves for school we decide to stay together and just “see what happens”. Funny. Now that I think of that I guess those are famous last words for a lot of couples.

I know she was leaving to better herself and it is very selfish to not want that for someone you love. But I just kept thinking to myself that another girl has left me and this time I actually care. Except I didn’t just care. I was devastated. I missed her so much. I became one of those guys that I used to make fun of because they were way too into their girlfriend. At first I would go visit her as much as I could afford to do, which was not that often. Also of course we did what all long distance relationships do to stay afloat: We had tons of phone sex. But this was not enough to quench my thirst for her, and after my third trip down to Miami in about six months I decide that Mia is the place for me. I wait another six months to get my associates degree from the local community college.

Basically meaning that I came up with enough money to go through two years of parking expenses, book costs and a fair amount for each class. As it is becoming obvious I hated school, I was way too into the real world that I was getting a taste of. It probably would have been a better idea for me to stay up in Virginia and finish school but everything in me told me to just get up and leave. Even though I knew it was a bad idea to leave my family, my friends and a town that took me a long time to get connected in but my gut said go. And if Doyle Brunson’s Super Systems (the true poker bible) taught me anything it was to trust your instinct, your true instinct that is. The first feeling you have not the thoughts that come afterwards which are corrupted by insecurities, doubts and other fears we institute in our minds because that is what society tells us to be concerned with.

As luck would have it a very good friend of mine from high school also wanted to move to Miami. He was a great guy and one of my best wingmen when I was single so this was a perfect scenario. So I take care of a few minor details, save as much money as I possibly can and we pack up our lives and hit 95 south. All the way actually to the 2nd to last exit right in downtown Miami. I enroll in the community college down there once again just to keep my parents quite. My buddy and I rented out a little apartment right in the heart of downtown, ten minutes from South Beach and some other amazing places. Unfortunately we were about five minutes away from the ghetto and the local soup kitchen so there were a lot of homeless bums around my place. But none of this mattered to me I was near Luisa and life was good. It was the first time we both had our own places so we pretty much lived together.

We were both in school and both serving at local restaurants (and in Miami that means great money for a twenty year old). It was the first time in my young life that I was actually including someone in my plans for the future and it was a good feeling. She satisfied all my sexual needs. She even almost let me have a threesome with her and another girl. But you will hear about all that later. We were so happy and I truly thought we would stay together forever but like the song says forever never seems that long until your grown. The good feelings only lasted so long and those feelings were then followed by fear of commitment and being tied down.

Also it is not easy to live in the best looking city in the nation (sorry LA) and try to be in a monogamous relationship. Everything was gravy for about a year with us but then slowly and surely things start to go sour, I wonder if gravy can go sour I hope so or this analogy doesn’t really work. We both have different groups of friends, we argue a lot over the most minuscule things, she seems to get mad at me for no reason and I’m sure she thought the same of me. I soon find myself not spending too many nights with my first true love, I noticed that I’m totally checking out all these fine girls in Miami where before I would go out of my way to ignore them thinking to myself she has nothing on my girl. Well I decide to take a break from Florida for my winter vacation and head up north for few weeks. This was the beginning of the end for us.



As soon as I get back there I bump into Natalie. Remember her? She took my flower in the first chapter, and remember I said we would see her again. Well I’m no liar but I am a cheater because Nat and I hooked up that first week I was back. To me it was a purely sexual experience but it seemed more to her. Natalie had recently graduated college and was ready to settle down with someone, but needless to say she was barking up the wrong tree. She knew I had a girlfriend but she also, thanks to my big mouth, knew we were in turmoil. I guess she just assumed I would leave Luisa and move back up to DC to be with her. I am never shocked by the audacity of some women but she was taking the cake. We slept together twice in two weeks and she thinks I’m going to drop my life for her, and mind you I never led her on to believe this was anything but a little fling if anything I told her that I wanted to work things out with Luisa not end them. Well of course I wasn’t going to give up my steak dinner for a pork chop and when Natalie figured this out she did what all scorned women do. She got very angry and then got her revenge.

Ok so this part is a pretty long story but I’ll try to make it short. After I let Nat know that she was just a fling she first yells, cusses me out and proceeds to tell me what a horrible person I am and that karma would kick me in my ass. All that was ok because I just brushed it right off, it’s what she did next that really kicked me in my ass. Natalie somehow finds out Luisa’s instant message screen name and contacts her. She told her everything plus a lot of bullshit, basically all the cheating I did with her except in her version it was me that wanted to pursue a relationship. I tried to tell Luisa that she was just my crazy ex but for some reason Luisa could always tell when I was lying, so I finally break down and tell her the truth. I tried to get her to listen to me and the fact that I only wanted to be with her but it was too little too late. By the time I got back to Miami Luisa told me she had hooked up with someone else and we were finished. It was a crazy break up that included a lot of yelling and crying, and all that was followed by us not talking at all. We eventually became friends again even though by then we were two totally different people. But once again this was not the last we are going to see of my ex girlfriend.


CHAPTER 4 THINGS GET CRAZY