Another Saturday night

Friday evening last, I arrived home from college for the summer [[and it couldn't have come too soon]]. I called the Ideal later that evening when I was heading over to campus, though I figured, and rightly so, that he was playing d&d. I hung out with Keys and Hair and such peoples instead, which was a good time.

Saturday, I spent the day cleaning in my room, throwing out a lot of things and trying to square away a lot of the college stuff that had overtaken my room. By evening, I was sick of it, and had cleaned up my room enough. I announced that I was going over to campus, and as I was heading down the stairs, the doorbell rang, and there were Ish and the Ideal, the latter in jeans and a white dress shirt, sleeves rolled up to the elbows. A *very* good look for him. Ahem. Anyway, we waited around for a while for Princess, walked around the block, collected Princess [[after waiting inside some more]] and headed back to campus to get Hugs for this walking excursion.

We entered the dorms into the lobby, and the Ideal headed off toward his side, presumably to get something or use the facilities or whatnot, and G, one of the guys on his floor, entered shortly after us, and said, 'Ame! I thought that was you. I saw you from behind and thought, "That might be Ame." And then, I saw the Ideal head over there, and I thought, "That *must* be Ame!"' To which I responded, 'What do you mean, that *must* be Ame if you saw the Ideal?' [[I wasn't indignant; I was very, very amused.]] Flustered, G tried to explain it away by saying he's good at recognizing people from behind, but that had nothing to do with his second point.

We left to go on our walk, and headed in the opposite direction of our house, still on top of the hill. There was a brief moment when Ish said, 'We're all wearing glasses!' and the Ideal and I promptly took ours off for a while, but that didn't last terribly long. To my annoyance, one the sidewalk of a long, busier street, I ended up walking with Princess in front of the others, by her doing. Now, I love my sister, I do, but if we weren't related, I don't know that we'd be friends. Even without that, I get to see her *all* the time, and I get to see Ish, Hugs, and the Ideal rarely, so I didn't really think that was time well spent. Turning off on a less-frequented side street that wrapped around, I started walking backwards so I could face the entire group. Hugs isn't a typically fast walker, and Ish sometimes isn't either, and so Princess was walking at their pace, being Hernia-girl, and thus the Ideal was the one walking faster and ending up closer to me. The two of us were talking, with him occasionally considering telling me when / if I was about to run into something. After I while, I turned around and walked forwards with him. Again, we were ahead of the rest.

Now, when I'm up at college, I hate walking with the people there. They always complain about my pace, and I'm not that close to them anyway. The Ideal and I seem to walk the same pace. I don't know if we subconsciously accommodate each other, with shortening stride or pace or anything, but we end up walking together. We ended up quite a ways ahead of the other three, for quite a while, but it's a relaxing pace, as we're relaxed together. Thus, with just the two of us, we ended up talking by ourselves about different events and family members. I told him about my uncle, and he mentioned that his grandpa was in the hospital again. We talked about each circumstance for a while, with him reiterating that he thought it would be almost better if his grandpa died soon, since then he wouldn't be in pain anymore, and that now that he had had a religion talk with his grandpa a couple months ago, he felt okay about it. He was sure that his family wouldn't feel the same way, however.

So we talked about death, and faith, and funerals, and family, before transitioning to talking about our summers. I asked about whether or not I'd hear from him often this summer [[I hope so]]. We'll see how things go. Then, back on campus, Princess caught up with us and walked with us for a while. Then Hugs, Princess, and Ish headed off to respective places of rest, and the Ideal and I ended up in the lobby, talking with the dormmother, who I'm sure thinks that we're dating. If that should come up in conversation this summer during work, I'll have to set her straight. It was a good discussion, though, and ended with the Ideal heading off to bed after Cap'n Jack showed up. Amusingly, Cap'n Jack admired the Ideal's shirt [[which I should have done aloud]], and when the Ideal commented on how comfortable it is, Cap'n Jack asked to touch it, and walked uncomfortably close and took hold of some collar [[albeit open]] by the neck. I then asked if I could feel the shirt without making him feel awkward, which he thought was amusing. Cap'n Jack couldn't see how it might be awkward, so I demonstrated to him just how close he had been to the Ideal. Pretty amusing. Anyway, Cap'n Jack left for bed, and then the Ideal was heading off to bed; he walked me as far as the door, saying he'd leave me there unless I wanted company on my walk home, but I figured he'd had to put up with enough of me already, so we said our goodnights there, and he mentioned that he might get to see me Sunday for, even though he had two exams for which to study, he might get bored / finish early / want a break, and so he might call.

And it's lunchtime now, and I've conveniently ended one night's stories, so I'll explain the rest of the week at a later time.