As they had done the last two nights the couple sits together again, smiling “I should be able to get through the last seven-eight years tonight, if you still want to hear it. You have been involved in the last three”
“Hun don’t delay it. The sooner we get through this the sooner we can go eat. I promised we can get dinner out tonight if you explain it well”
“I know. I know. So University, relationships. I’ll start with my first relationship. They weren’t someone I loved, at least not fully. I liked them well enough sure. But loved? No. I don’t think I did. It all started because I was going to the school ball but had no partner to go with. A friend of mine put me in touch with her and we went. Shortly after that we were kinda put together. I am not sure what we were, but we ended up as a couple. End of the year came, we spent new years together, then we ended up talking one day. She was going to one city, I was going to another. We decided, at her suggestion, to break up. It was the smart thing to do.
University started, I was slammed with classes, and rent, along with other expenses, including internet, man fuck that shit, so expensive. I did everything I could, failed a lot of things. Had a crisis of faith in my abilities and identity. It was tough, it wasn’t what I expected and halfway through semester two I knew it wasn’t working. I stopped going to classes etc. looked at everything else, and thanks to my friend, and now bro, found a course at polytechnic that was interesting.”
His partner smile and reaches across the table, holding his hand in theirs. “Which did lead you to meeting me eventually”
He nods “yes, but there is more to the story yet.”
He continues “During that year I had a brief relationship, about four months, with a wonderful girl I had met maybe once prior. She was smart, and beautiful. I got along with her so very well. But after a time we decided that long distance wasn’t going to work.
I had another relationship a few months after that one ended. Yet again, long distance. We kept it mostly secret as at the time I was not ready, for a few reasons that you know. I spoke to my parents, and they told me not to tell anyone yet. It was complicated. I managed to get the guy closer, to another city nearby. They broke my heart by telling me they found someone else.”
His partner glares at the story, recalling the descriptions he had previously been told “Oh, that dick”
He nods “yea. And you know the story of the guy in another country. So I don’t have to explain that. Ended up due to dwindling communication and I made a mistake prior to that”
His partner nods, glaring once more “The fuckwit”
“So polytechnic? I know you did well there. Besides that fail that you later went back and passed.”
“And the last relationship?”
“It was nice. Mostly good, but differing views on many things, and their communication wasn’t very good. Their ex agrees with that. Overall mostly nice guy. But it was also where I ended up meeting you.”
His partner smiles as they stand and move over, lifting him up into a hug “so hun, how about dinner. You don’t need to tell me the rest of the story”
He nods, smiling and hugging tight “ready to go then?” he takes his partner's arm and they leave together
