Blessings: Part 2

“...so, he stayed till one in the morning. What happened next?”

“He slept over.”

“...and?”

“In my bed. Which I shared with him. Yeah, we cuddled, and etc. Good way to start 2010.”

“Brian!”

“Well, we kept it very G. Our shorts were on the whole time. No one whipped out their dicks.”

“Wow, I’m impressed.”

“I’m not usually the one that whips it out first anyway.”

“Oh yeah, I forget that sometimes. So, how do you feel about him now?”

“I think there’s actually something there. It’s not a lost cause.”

“Are you guys going to be together now?”

“He decided that we should have a few weeks to think about things. If my feelings don’t fade, which I don’t think they won’t, then we’ll probably make it official.”

“Wow.”

“Yeah.”

“Wow. How long has it been since the breakup?”

“Four months.”

“What happened to waiting for a really long time? You just couldn’t stand being single? Does it feel good to be back? Does this thing right now have a future?”

“I’m not thinking about the future. I think my new life philosophy is, if I have a chance to make my present better than it could be, I’m going to take that chance. This has nothing to do with me not wanting to be single. This has to do with me being happier than I had thought I’d be.”

“Ok. Sounds good.”

“...Trung, is that it?”

“What do you mean, Brian?”

“You’re okay with this?”

“Yeah.”

“You sure? We’ve already established that I’m not worried about me and you, but rather, just you. You’re fine?”

“Yeah, Brian, don’t worry. Like I said before, I just want to be your really good close friend now. You can talk to me about this stuff. You can come to me when you need advice. You can come to me if you need to complain about other guys. It won’t bother me.”

“Ok. I believe you. We’re friends.”

Ten minutes earlier -

“Brian, I was doing fine. I was doing great. I was moving on and everything. But then, you told me about how you were jealous of John. At first, I thought it was cute, but then, I started to think about it more. Why? Why were you jealous about John? Were you hung up on me? Hearing that you were jealous resurfaced so many emotions. I need you to explain why; what’s going through your head?”

“I’m not going to lie; I still thought there was some sense of us, and I couldn’t let go of it. I couldn’t move on.”

“And what about now?”

“Remember the night when I exploded on you? Two days before our two-year anniversary mark? That was when I realized I had to let go. I knew that the way I kept on clinging onto you wasn’t emotionally healthy for either of us. I was still hurting you and myself.”

“Ok, there we go. That’s all I wanted to know. See how much better it is when you open up to me?”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“Alright, now tell me how your date went last night.”

“It wasn’t a date.”

“Sure. Did you guys fuck?”