Time.
When I first met Shane it was at a charity event. He was up for auction as a "slave", and my friend Lorelai thought it would be hysterical if I won him because the two of them grew up together. She knew how shy I wasn't and how shy he was and she totally wanted to make him squirm.
I would have ignored her, but she played the ultimate card when she told me that she thought I wasn't interested in Shane because I was waiting to get Miles. Lorelai is a skilled button pusher, and this time it worked like a charm. I spent a fortune on my shy Texan, and yeah, I definitely scared the hell out of him. Then I started feeling bad for Shane, so I decided to go easy on him for our twenty-four hours of slavery. I took him to Vegas.
No one told me that his Mom was a stripper and that it might be a bad idea to get him a lap dance. That's one hundred percent Miles and Lorelai's fault. Its Lorelai's because she knows his mom, and Miles' because I've bought Miles enough lap dances for him to know that's what I do when I'm in Vegas.
Needless to say, Shane didn't like me that weekend. I mean, he might have thought I was fun, but if he did it was fun in the crazy way. The only good part about it was that I cleaned up at the blackjack table. Shane was still uncomfortable after he had a few drinks in him, and my hitting on him didn't exactly help the situation any.
A few months after the auction when I found myself looking for a roommate, Lorelai told me to give Shane a call because he was planning on moving out of Texas. Our first conversation didn't go so well, but I'm nothing if not persistent. By our third conversation I had myself a roommate.
Things started changing for the better once Shane finally moved in. He didn't change his mind about me overnight, and initially I didn't understand him at all, but after a while we finally started to become friends. Good friends. He went from being a guy who I didn't know how to talk to, to one of the few people in the world who I would trust with almost anything. All it took for us was a little time to get to know each other.
The only trouble is, now we get teased for being too comfortable with each other. Its 2007, and you still aren't allowed to be close to a guy who you're not sleeping with. That's the price I pay for having my Roomie. The good news is, he's worth it.
Sasha Hoffman
Original Character
460 words
I would have ignored her, but she played the ultimate card when she told me that she thought I wasn't interested in Shane because I was waiting to get Miles. Lorelai is a skilled button pusher, and this time it worked like a charm. I spent a fortune on my shy Texan, and yeah, I definitely scared the hell out of him. Then I started feeling bad for Shane, so I decided to go easy on him for our twenty-four hours of slavery. I took him to Vegas.
No one told me that his Mom was a stripper and that it might be a bad idea to get him a lap dance. That's one hundred percent Miles and Lorelai's fault. Its Lorelai's because she knows his mom, and Miles' because I've bought Miles enough lap dances for him to know that's what I do when I'm in Vegas.
Needless to say, Shane didn't like me that weekend. I mean, he might have thought I was fun, but if he did it was fun in the crazy way. The only good part about it was that I cleaned up at the blackjack table. Shane was still uncomfortable after he had a few drinks in him, and my hitting on him didn't exactly help the situation any.
A few months after the auction when I found myself looking for a roommate, Lorelai told me to give Shane a call because he was planning on moving out of Texas. Our first conversation didn't go so well, but I'm nothing if not persistent. By our third conversation I had myself a roommate.
Things started changing for the better once Shane finally moved in. He didn't change his mind about me overnight, and initially I didn't understand him at all, but after a while we finally started to become friends. Good friends. He went from being a guy who I didn't know how to talk to, to one of the few people in the world who I would trust with almost anything. All it took for us was a little time to get to know each other.
The only trouble is, now we get teased for being too comfortable with each other. Its 2007, and you still aren't allowed to be close to a guy who you're not sleeping with. That's the price I pay for having my Roomie. The good news is, he's worth it.
Sasha Hoffman
Original Character
460 words