"It's Gay-Ja-Vu"

Oh. Migod.

Lemme fill you guys in. Because, for serious, I have such news for you! You will laugh, you'll cry, you'll dance and sing! Don't touch that remote!

Okay, enough intro. Here's what happened........

After James came to visit me in Rhode Island this summer, he continued northeast and went to Maine. While there, he met a lad named Jon. They hung out, went out, and summer loving had them a blast.

Despite myself, I was furiously jealous. But I told myself it was okay because, hey, I'll never meet this guy. He's in Maine. Right? Of course right.

The world is too damn small.
I'm partying in Providence, and my friend Joe (who is a skanky mcslutterson, and he won't mind me saying that either :P) is trying to hook up with these two kids: Francis, from RI, and his friend Jon who is visiting from out of state.
I run into Francis and Jon a couple of times and then it comes out: Jon is from Maine.
I'm afraid to ask, but I figure....there's got to be a ton of Jons in Maine, right? No way is this the same one.
So I ask......"Do you know a James from Pennsylvania?"
"Tall guy?"
"Yeah."
"Ohmigod, I LOVE him!"
So not what I wanted to hear. I left the conversation, ranted to Rob (my boss at the Dark Lady who is also one of the few people in Providence who I think really knows the depth and breadth of this crush) about what had just happened and then tried to hate Jon.
It's not frikkin' possible. He's just nice. I can't hate on him, and I won't.

But of course, I can't keep my mouth shut. Jon says "Tell James I said hi!" So I did.
Next thing I know, James is on his way to Providence and he's gonna stay at my parents house. With me. NOT IN MY BED. He said things were over between him and Jon, but he had vacation time and he was going to Vermont anyways and he'd been planning on swinging by this place in New Hampshire that Jon goes and surprising him.....so he was gonna stop in Providence and see both of us instead.
I'm freaking out. First of all, there's that jealousy and the fact that Jon is unhateable at war with each other. Then there's the fact that Joe totally wants to hook up with Jon. All I can see is the drama I'm afraid is going to happen.

James shows up and watches The Illusionist with my mom, my grandmother, and I. Then we went out. I had to work at Dark Lady that night, but James went over to Mirabar. He came back, mildly intoxicated (he's cute when he's drunk, I have to say) when the night was ending. Some guy would not leave him alone, and ended up taking James outside with him when Dark Lady closed....I went over to Rob and was like "A guy just took James outside" and Rob hands me money and goes "GO!" Love that man so much. Like, really, it's ridiculous. If he weren't my boss and weren't taken and if there was any chemistry there at all...:-P

Anyways...next day, I have to help take down decorations with mom. Obviously, James should not be enlisted to help....so, I was good, and encouraged him to spend the day with Jon. My mom was proud of me, and you should be too. :P
I was also supposed to have a date that night...didn't end up happening, so I took James to the coffee shop it was supposed to be at. He'd never had tiramisu, so he had it. He offered to pay for me too, but I didn't let him because that totally wouldn't have been fair. Also, would have been very date-esque...and while I would've loved that, at the same time it didn't seem right.

So we went to the Dark Lady, where I was a little depressed to find that two of the guys there who've been single the whole time I've known them both came with boys attached that night. That's okay, I showed up with James...different sort of attached, but whatever.
We went to Mirabar. Jon and Francis (and Joe) were all there, along with a million other people I had to say good-bye too before I left the state (we'll get to that later, it's less important :P). I'm pleased to say that James danced with me most of the night. We didn't flirt much that I noticed, but he did do a lot of flirting. Because of that...things that were yet to come were quite shocking for me!

In the parking lot where we'd parked, we ran into Kevin who DJs at Dark Lady some time and he invited us to Bickfords with him and some of his friends. We accepted.
Anyways, through the course of the meal, as had been happening all weekend, many many people assumed we were either dating or hooking up. Kevin seriously wanted to know why I wasn't going to have sex with James that night, so I dragged him outside, explained the situation as best as I could (especially the part where James tells me about all the boys he likes and is talking to) and he gave me a sound fist-to-the-chest and a flick on the forehead to knock some sense into me.
That worked well.
Anyways, thankfully Kevin has some degree of tact and did his best to put a stop to the questions about James and I. This, however, opened the door for Brendan -- one of the pillars of Providence's gay community and also the most tactless queer I ever met (although I do love him most of the time) -- to proceed to mercilessly hit on James. We get it, he's hot. Not every guy in the world needs to express this all the time.

So James and I got home around 3:30 am. I had been planning on waking up at 10 am and leaving at 11 am. This would have worked if mom had remembered to finish the laundry. So I went to bed at 5 am.
Early in the expanse of laundrying, I noticed James still getting texts -- presumably from Devin, one of my friends who is a shot boy at Mirabar, who'd been texting him since we left the club. If it weren't Devin I'd probably be jealous too, but Devin is just so friendly it's even possible (albeit unlikely, but I'm telling myself this is what's going on) that Devin is just texting his new friend. Anyways, I teased him about how late he was still getting texts and how popular he was. He sent me a text that said "Shut up biotch" and I replied "Whatever. Either go to sleep or help keep me awake, bitch :P". His reply said something along the lines of "I'd invite you to sleep with me but I think it'd be awkward for your parents in the morning".
Whoooooooooaaaaaaaaa.
I said "I'd accept but for the same reason."
And thus that bout of flirting ended as James went to sleep and I did laundry.

The next morning, James left for Vermont and I, in turn, headed in the opposite direction, back to Pennsylvania, to collect my car and return my rental to Enterprise. One week before classes start.

I want to reiterate that there was no sex during the course of this past weekend. There has been no sex since...well, Thanksgiving break. I'm okay with that.

So, in comparison to Rhode Island, even in the winter, I've determined that central Pennsylvania? Boooooooooooring. I'm bored bored bored. So I've been IMing basically everyone who is on the buddy list of my new screenname (ps, yeah, I got a new one) except Jonathan Vargas cause I'm totally nervous to IM him. :P
That includes James.
Who, yesterday, randomly...well, here's an excerpt from our conversation:

Me (11:48:15 PM):	I'm so bored, I think I might be hungry just for something to do.
Monday, January 07, 2008
James (12:08:11 AM):	:-*
Me (12:08:55 AM):	:-) what's that for?
James (12:09:01 AM):	i dunno
Me (12:09:21 AM):	Yeah, okay. :-P
Me (12:12:27 AM):	Well :-* back atcha. :-)
Me (12:13:32 AM):	And maybe you can get a real one next time I see you ;-)
James (12:13:43 AM):	ok

Yeah, I got a little flustered and I think I ruined it. Oh well.

Umm...so, today I got my car back and returned the rental. I really need to clean my car, that's the plan for tomorrow. Well, today now....