I’m bored of writing in first person. The following post, from this point on, will be in third. So there.
On the cold, windy day of Wednesday last week, Skelly and Sir Sue decided they should have an evening out together, before Sir Sue moved back to University. Due to the cold weather, Sir Sue decided it to be appropriate to get a cab to the Spoons pub, Skelly certainly didn’t disagree with this notion. When Sir Sue arrived at Skelly’s house in the cab, she informed Skelly she had a pair of socks in her pocket. “Why have you got socks in your pocket?” Skelly asked. “I thought they were gloves.” Sir Sue replied.
During the journey, the taxi man felt it appropriate to talk to them both, telling them a story about his day and revealing that he was in fact, a little bit racist. They were glad to get out of the cab and into Spoons. As they sat down, Skelly suggested they try a cocktail as she looked through the menu. Sir Sue agreed and they settled on one called “Jelly Baby.” Both really enjoyed it, although when Skelly decided to try eat the lime afterwards, she was struck by its sourness.
A few moments later, Skelly found another drink she would like to try, Sir Sue informing her it was indeed quite tasty. Sir Sue settled for some bargain beer, which she quite liked. The drink Skelly had was magical. It was a sweet, pink sherbert drink, that tasted to lovely and sweet she felt the need to declare to Sir Sue after every mouthful that it was the nicest thing she had tasted. This influenced Sir Sue to have one also.
As lovely as Spoons was, the two decided to move on to another place, in which there was music and dancing. As they walked there they realised how cold it was. Arriving at Ye Olde Phoenix, they paid to get in and basked in the warmth. Skelly spotted some familiar faces, friends of her brother’s. She made a note to talk to them when she could. She and Sir Sue headed upstairs to the dancing room and immediately began to dance, although the music was not to their taste. The familiar faces were found in the dancing room minutes later and Skelly went over to talk to them. One she had met numerous times before (we shall call him Todd), recognised her and greeted her, introuducing her to a new person with whom she shook hands. Skelly got a bit bored of trying to listen to them talk so she went back to dance, before accompanying Sir Sue to the drinks vendor.
On their way back to the dance floor, Skelly bumped into a man who she vaguely recognised, although never having met him before, as another one of her brother’s friends. He somehow recognised her to be a sister of one of his friends, despite Todd not being there to tell him so. They shook hands warmly and Skelly felt a little partial to his tall, dark and handsome looks. His name was Tam. They spoke for a while, before Skelly and Sir Sue went to carry on dancing. There were songs on they liked now, which made them happy.
They danced and they danced, until they were informed the Ye Olde Phoenix was actually closing. This saddened them both. They left in a crowd of people, exiting to the street, enjoying the coolness of the winter air. As they walked towards a taxi, Skelly’s new friends were there. They greeted them happily and asked them if they wanted to go to the Tree Inn next door. Skelly and Sir Sue did. They stood outside the Inn for quite some time, talking about nothing. Skelly discovered Tam was Welsh. Tam discovered Skelly’s desire to be a Clinical Psychologist and also found out they earnt £22,000 a year to train. This impressed Tam and he joked that Skelly would be paying for a date. They laughed.
Skelly isn’t sure how the date issue got from a joke to being a bit more serious, she is hoping Sir Sue can. But that is what happened. Tam asked Skelly for her number, she gave it to him. In return, he gave her his. He then asked her to go on a date. Skelly thought he might still be joking, so she agreed in jest. They arranged a place and time for the following day. Eventually they all went into the Tree Inn. Tam asked Skelly if she wanted a drink, Skelly declined politely. They sat on the big comfy sofas, where the realisation hit Skelly that these were her brother’s friends and perhaps he would not be too happy with her hanging around with them or joking about going on a date with one of them. Todd found this funny and told her he was going to text her brother and tell him Tam was serenading her. Skelly took his phone of him and erased the said text before it could ever be sent. Todd then rang Skelly’s brother. Skelly wasn’t happy, until Sir Sue pointed out he might not actually be on the phone to him. So Skelly rang her brother to check. His phone rang and she felt triumphant. Until he phoned her back again to ask her why she was phoning. The cat was out of the bag. He didn’t seem to mind too much.
The next day, Skelly mentioned to her brother that she thought Tam was joking was he asked her on a date. She neglected to mention they swapped numbers and had arranged a time and place. Her brother agreed that he must have been joking. Skelly felt a little disappointed but didn’t mind so much. Much later, she checked her phone. Tam had sent her a text after she had left the Tree Inn, reminding her to text him. Skelly felt confused. She weighed up the evidence with Sir Sue and the FP and they both thought he wasn’t joking. She left the matter.
Her brother went out with Tam the following night. She got a text from Tam asking her out on another date. This was quickly followed by a text from her ogre brother telling her to say no because he wouldn’t be happy with it. Skelly asked him what was going on and her brother told her again it was a joke. This time it was obvious he was lying. Skelly text Tam back the next day, but heard nothing back from Tam. The FP argued that her brother may have told him to leave Skelly alone. This made Skelly annoyed.
Skelly is procrastinating now, she has work to be getting on with. This blog has gone on for too long, so she bids you farewell.
