OMG, just got back from my date with Patrick. Things did not go as expected...

Patrick and I walked in to the restaurant and I felt like someone was watching me so I did a quick look around and sure enough, there were Josh and Tanya sitting across the room. He smiled at me and I smiled back. Patrick was talking about his day, and of course I was completely distracted. I was trying to listen but I couldn’t stay focused on what he was saying.

Patrick started to complain that our waiter hadn’t come over but I couldn’t help but continue to glance over at Josh and Tanya. I saw Tanya get up from the table and I looked to see if Josh would look at me but he was busy messing with his phone. I sighed and sat back trying to force myself to concentrate on Patrick and then my phone rang. My heart suddenly went into overdrive because I knew it was Josh.

I told Patrick I had to get it and pretended it was Natalie calling. He got up from the table to find our waitress and I turned to look at Josh. All I remember saying is, “Are you out of your mind? I’m on a date!” He just laughed and said, “yeah, I could tell you were real into whatever he was going on about.” I had no response to that so I just said, “you’re on a date!”

So then Josh says, “if you’re so into him why were you looking at me?” I just sat there wondering when Josh got so much nerve. So I asked him why he was looking back, and he smiled at me and said, “how could I not look at the most beautiful woman in the restaurant?” At this point I knew he had me. And once I got over the sheer audacity of the phone call, I had to admit to myself that I was thrilled that he had called.

I remembered then that I was on a date with Patrick and looked around for him. Josh chimed back in and told me to call it an early evening with Patrick and meet him at the park. My head was thinking “no way,” but my heart was screaming, “Do it! Do it! Do it!” I told Josh that I couldn’t do that, but all he said was, “Patrick’s on his way back to the table so we should hang up now. I’ll see you at the park at 10:00.”

So I ate a quick dinner with Patrick and then told him I had to get home to call Nat back because she’s in crisis. Now I’m sitting at home, writing this blog, looking at the clock and wondering, do I meet Josh at the park?