Maybe he’s got sick of our conversation and just ghosted me?
But, I mean, if he’s showing his friend around the island, I guess it’s reasonable for him not to be constantly checking his phone. Then again, it only takes a moment to text someone, and his attention is noticeably absent.
He’d said ‘she’ when referring to his friend when he briefly mentioned the visit on the phone the other day. But Ididn’t think much of it, because I have a ton of male friends. All platonic. Mostly, but not all, gay. Of course Timmy can have female friends.
But his radio silence makes me feel uneasy.
I tell my friend David about it.
He messages me back straight away, no hesitation.
David:
Well you could file a missing person’s report.
But I think you just need to face it—that guy is totally banging his friend while she’s visiting.
I’m sure he’ll be back. But that’s what he’s doing right now.
The thought of it makes me feel a little bit sick, but it’s not like we’re in a relationship or anything. I haven’t even met Timmy in person yet.
Yet the thought that he’s telling me he’s just hanging out with a friend, when he’s potentially really off banging them, feels a bit disingenuous.
Ugh.
I try to push all thoughts about it from my mind.
Instead, I focus on skating.
At one point, I decide to video myself. A few loops around the kitchen island, and then I tackle a transition, where I go from skating forward to backwards, and I nail it! Success! It always looks so cool when other people do it, and it’s scary just leaning into it and hoping for the best.
I leap up to do another transition, and end up way too high in the air. I come crashing down, smacking my tailbone hard on the ground and my legs flip back behind me. I almost do a complete backward flip. After a moment of being stunned, I get back to my feet and giggle as I turn off the video. Ouch! My tailbone stings, but at least now I have a funny video from it.
I send it to a few friends and post it as a Facebook reel, and it has hundreds of views within an hour.
David texts again.
David:
But it’s okay.
When he does come back, because he will…
send him that video of you roller skating and falling over.
He’ll never look at another woman again.
Who knew my first ever boyfriend would be my wise dating therapist twenty-something years later? I shake my head and laugh. Life.
But David continues:
David:
But, I get the sense this guy is deeply insecure.
He’s going to hurt you by acting out and cheating on you or something, if you do get together with him.
I’m shocked by what he has to say.