Kevin stayed the night at my house last night, since we didn't have to go to school today. We got up pretty late, around noon. My dad had told me that Zhanna had called. By this time, I had decided to for­get about her, being that she had basi­cally screwed me over twice, and I saw no rea­son to try for a third.

Around 12:30, Zhanna called again. I was watch­ing the caller ID to see if it was her. But she was sneaky: she called from Cali's boyfriend's house. His being a num­ber I did not know, I answered it. And much to my sur­prise, I found out it was her. She asked me if I would pick her up there so we could go out. I was excited. I told her I would be there at 2.

When I picked her up, I asked her where she wanted to go. I was on a lim­ited bud­get, but I fig­ured that I could man­age. She said that she wanted cof­fee. So I took her to Cof­fee Con­nec­tion. She wanted to pay for her cof­fee, but I wouldn't let her. I think she appre­ci­ated this. But it really didn't mat­ter … I wanted to be nice.

We stayed there for a cou­ple of hours talk­ing. Now, I'm not the most tact­ful per­son in the world. When I need to be hon­est (some­times, even if it's hurt­ful), I am. Some­times this works to my advan­tage, some­times not. But what­ever the case … dur­ing our con­ver­sa­tion, the sub­ject of rela­tion­ships came up. She told me about her last boyfriend (who was 23), and I told her about my last girl­friend. And then, some­how (hon­estly, I don't know how) the sub­ject of her and I was raised. I said that she had been send­ing mixed sig­nals toward me. And I told her hon­estly that I really, really like her and that I didn't know how she felt about me. She said that she liked me. (Me = Excited!) Con­ver­sa­tions about her home and fam­ily, as well as mine, fol­lowed. We left Cof­fee Con­nec­tion around 5.

She said that she wanted to go look for shoes that she could wear to CMEA. We went to sev­eral stores look­ing for shoes. Per­son­ally, I didn't find this too excit­ing. The only thing that made this worth­while was the fact that I was spend­ing time with her. While we were at Mervyns, Buffy called me. (I had called her while we were at Cof­fee Con­nec­tion and Zhanna was in the bath­room) So we talked for a lit­tle bit, and then she talked to Zhanna. Zhanna had been look­ing at rings. And then she asked me to marry her. It was all kinda funny, although a lit­tle bit uncomfortable.

I finally took her home around 8. I had a lot of fun with her, and I hope this goes somewhere.