Monday came too soon

As Monday always does.  Ray and I flirted in the office as we’d always done and I debated telling him that I’d decided that I could no longer emotionally handle being with two men.

Not to mention, that Tom’s ramblings had grown more intense and random. This could be due to his self medicating behavior which didn’t bother me at first. After some time with Tom I realized just how much he drank and smoked to calm his mind so he could sleep. Having grown up with alcoholics in my extended family, I found this to be more than a quirk in his personality.

While I know that no one is perfect especially myself, I deserved more.

So one evening when Ray called to chat, I told him that I was no longer planning to date Tom. My news was met with a disappointed voice on the other end of the phone. Ray reminded me that he still had plans to go on a date with the dotcom woman. And I reminded him that I had no problems with that.

In fact, I didn’t. I knew it was important for Ray to date other women. Afterall his last girlfriend was the woman he thought he was going to marry. Plus it would help him decide where we stood. While I was fine with taking things day by day without expectations this was not the way his mind worked.

My birthday weekend was approaching and Ray and I both had holiday parties to attend. A couple of these were work related and we could not go together. So he made plans for the weekend before to take me out to his friend’s holiday play. It was also the weekend I was getting my first tattoo and Ray was going with me.

We had two dates that weekend all lined up.