I played hard to get this time and held off as long as I could. She kept on saying she was sorry and offered several times to meet with me again. When I finally did, I made it known to her that I had enough of her games. I didn’t answer her messages for the next couple of days. Disappointed, I took her to the mall and left saying that she should be able to find her way home on her own. On the way to the motel, she expressed second thoughts and asked if we could just go to the mall instead. She persisted and so I agreed, thinking that I had her. I said no, saying I could no longer trust her. When she asked how I felt, I told her I didn’t like the feeling of being made fun of and she apologized, promptly offering another meetup. She had a good laugh out of it for the next couple of days and I sort of played along, acting disappointed and eventually making myself scarce for a couple of days. Afterwards, she explained that she had led me on which upset me a bit. But I ended up waiting for her outside a church for an hour as she did an errand and attended a religious service. Then I got a text message from her saying that we can go out which got me really excited. She kept silent for a day and I thought that was the end of it. She asked me if we couldn’t just be friends and I said I’d find it hard. She asked me why I said what I said and I told her that I needed to be honest with her after waiting all those years and having little time left, with chance that we’d never see each other again. I messaged her after a couple of days, apologizing again and asking how she was. She immediately knew what I meant and expressed anger at my audacity asking: “What do you think of me?” I apologised for my honesty and I didn’t hear from her for two days. Feeling more confident, I said that I found her attractive and would be interested in going out with her for coffee again or something else like us being alone in a ‘quiet place’. She asked why I was so interested in her and what I wanted. I waited a couple of days before messaging her again. She was uneasy but responsive to my flirty innuendos. We had coffee and I accompanied her as she completed her errand with me throwing light compliments and some humor her way without really getting serious. She was nervous when we met up knowing that I was interested in more than just having coffee with her. She said she had an errand to run and, if I was fine with me coming along, we could have coffee. She then asked why I was so keen on getting her number and, emboldened by the fact that I just had a few months more of living there, I told her I had noticed her for quite a while and was hoping to get to know her and ask her out for coffee. A little later, I got a text message from her. She gave a flimsy reason of having lost my card in her bag.
After one week of not hearing her, I met her on the street – well actually, waited for her – and sort of casually asked why she hadn’t contacted me. I gave her my business card and asked if she could give me her number by sending me a text message or calling. I suddenly got bolder starting with introducing myself when I met her at school. That all changed when I was due to go overseas to take a job. I dreaded the thought of having an angry husband who can easily make life difficult for me so I stayed clear of her. But the fact that she was a neighbor kept me at bay. She often just wore t-shirts and jeans but she was hot.
I had been eyeing Jenna for over four years whenever she walked past our house as she took her two kids to and from school.