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The Firefighter - First Date
What better inaugural post than about the person I dated that gave me the stories to want to make this blog?
I met K on Tinder (I know, but there aren't many options here). Immediately she was so sweet and flirty which I took very well to. It wasn't long after we started texting that we set up our first date.
Dinner and a movie. Simple, right? Summer 2023, we were going to see the Barbie Movie after going to dinner at her favorite Mexican place. I remember being so nervous because I thought she was so cool. K showed up riding a motorcycle, wearing a leather jacket, and I was smitten.
The food at this place was fantastic. It's been a long time now so I can't remember what we ate, but I have been back there since and it's always amazing. It was there, though, that I should've started noticing the red flags.
It started when she wanted to change the movie I had picked out. That's fine! She didn't want to see the Barbie Movie, I'm not one to force people into things. However there were many times she could have said so. But that was also the opening weekend for the newest Saw movie, Jigsaw, so I thought 'I love the Saw movies! Let's do it!'.
We went to the shopping center where the movie theater was and walked around for a while as we had at least an hour to kill before the 10p showing. K was so chivalrous, even now I think about it and want that in a partner. She would insist on opening doors for me and walking on the outside of the sidewalk closest to the road. Really made me feel like a special lady. She even walked me to my car at the restaurant and waited for me to get in and start it before going to her motorcycle.
So we see this movie, it's pretty good, we had a really good time with the story and gore, and I talked her through some of the elements of the movie that were part of the other movies in that series (they were a pretty big favorite of mine. Knowing this person would change that.) And once it was done, K again walked me to my car.
The date was over, but we did that thing I'm sure a lot of lesbians on first dates do. We lingered by my car, finding anything to talk about for just a few moments, waiting for the other to make a move. Then she asked me if I wanted a kiss.
Naturally I said yes. Of course I said yes! She was so cool and sweet, how could I not? But something to know about me, I do not have the most experience. Before that I had only ever been in one relationship which didn't even involve kissing. The only kisses I'd ever gotten were through games or this one kind of traumatizing New Year's party when I was 16 or 17. So my biggest problem was I didn't know how to go about it! And I was nervous. Beyond nervous! And I said so.
K nodded when I told her I wasn't sure what to do and took my hands in hers. She said "I want you to close your eyes and count backwards from 10." I began to count. When I got to 6, she kissed me.
I will think about that kiss forever.
All the way home I couldn't stop smiling. No one had ever made me feel like that before. Like... like I was special and desirable. Maybe that's why I ignored a lot of the issues going forward. I was chasing that feeling she gave me on our first date.
I never felt that way with K again.
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