First Friday and The Kid

My best friend's 25 year old nephew is house sitting for them while they’re out of the country. We’ve met a few times and they asked if I’d check in on him. The first time we met he looked like a gawky teen, blonde nerdy surfer type, and freckled and friendly. That weekend we ended up spending more time together and he was so sweet. He asked thoughtful questions about wine, but I mainly blew him off as a kid while I was scoping out their other single friends closer to my age, or at least in their thirties. Since then we’ve spent more time together in the family group, and I started to adore him. Beyond thoughtful and intelligent, a great person, and I’ve started to notice how incredibly good looking he is, in a corn fed all American boy way.

The night before I’d gone to Square 1 Yoga after work and ended up having an incredible class and missing all of the traffic. I got home just in time to make my girlfriends and I dinner with cocktails, paired wine, and a diy digestif course. I’d also signed up for something called Sound Bathing at the Square 1 by my house. I wasn’t entirely sure if it was a yoga class, but it sounded amazing, if not a bit hippy. Okay, majorly hippy. But I’m all about new experiences these days so signed up and told The Kid I’d be available after 9. We’d been texting all week, and clearly both of us were looking forward to finally getting together. Through texts he asked if there was still room in the class I was taking, I said yes, but warned him it was going to be too hippy for him. To my complete surprise, he wanted to go. I am beyond self conscious about this stuff, so I really couldn’t believe it. I get self concious, and really don’t want to be judged. If I wasn’t so committed to having a healthy mind these days I would have completely written it off and just spent the entire night drinking with him.

I picked him up before six, he came to my place and we made a simple dinner together, hung out by the creek with drinks and then lost track of time, getting to the class two minutes in. We lay there surrounded by bolsters and strategically folded blankets in a relaxing position on our backs in the dark while she played the musical bowls and the sound waves reverberated through our bodies. I was doing my best not to giggle. Here was my best friend's complete stud of a 25 year old nephew, and he was at this insane class with me. It was bonkers, but I had nothing to prove or gain from him being there or not.

After we came back and changed and headed out to downtown Oakland for First Friday. I was very in the middle of feeling protective of him, and wondering if he would be protective of me. We ended up at a burlesque show, with women that gave the term plus size a run for its money. Fun performers but a little too awkward for our first night out on the town. We hopped to a couple of more bars. and had an awesome time. He’s such a great person, we were laughing, I made fun of him a couple of times, we exchanged Tinder and other dating stories, talked about past relationships, family history, careers, sports. He was a total gentleman, but there is definitely a blend of, this guy could be like the best friend little brother I never had, and given the chance I could completely fall in love with him.

Next up, I sign up for Hinge upon his recommendation.

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