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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The UCLA guy

He's a cutie. Nicely built, about 5'9'', dark eyes, dark, slightly salt-n-pepper hair. He's wearing a UCLA sweatshirt and low-rise, faded jeans that have a hole at the knee. Gray flannel boxers peek out over the waistline of his jeans.
"Do you think he's cute?" I ask Grant, gesturing over to where he's standing.
"Uh huh" I don't need an answer... Grant is staring straight at him, doing that little flirtratious thing he does with his eyes. Our physical types occasionally interesect, Grant and I.
He approaches the bar to get a drink, and as he walks by us, Grant looks at him, and
innocently looks away. This catches his interest. He looks over at me, and then smiles at both of us.
"You go to UCLA?" I ask. His eyes light up.
"A long time ago I did! I'm Steve by the way."
"Go Bruins!" I say, raising my glass. Clink. Clink. Clink.
"I'm Andrew. And this is Grant." We all shake hands with Steve.
"You've got beautiful hands," Steve says, holding on to Grant's hand after they've shaken. He examines his hand slowly, touching his fingers, turning it over and gazing at his palm. Grant does have beautiful hands. They are slender and artistic. He has long fingers and naturally shiny, healthy fingernails. Steve's hands, in contrast, are rugged - he has short, thick fingers with a slight smattering of curly, dark hairs. I notice a small callous on his thumb - like he worked in construction.
Grant is basking in the attention. It's so adorable to watch. I wink at him.
"And is this your boyfriend?" Steve asks.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

"I love you too."

Wow.
4 simple little words. That's all it took. 4 words ultimately even more powerful than the 3 words they were a response to.
And now Andrew's life has become a lovesong. There's a spring in my step, a smile for anyone who passes by, and rainbows by day and fireworks by night. My other friends roll their eyes whenever I start talking about Grant - happy as they are for me, it gets tiring to hear about someone else's love life: I try to limit their exposure to my saccharine-sweet thoughts: "Seen any good movies lately?" when all I really want to talk about is Grant Grant Grant.
Yea, I've been in love before. Ernest can tell you. But this time it feels different. More... grounded somehow. And grounding.

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