Date #5: The Baseball Player

Ok...the moment we have all been waiting for. One of my biggest learning lessons. I mean don't get me wrong, he is hansome, and has such a cute smile. I matched with him in Tinder, a lot of baseball pictures, which I loved but said nothing about his "dating intentions" - red flag #1) I honestly shouldn't have gone out with him, but it was for the plot. Honestly the date went really well, at least I thought so at the time. We are laughing and just having a great time. We actually met at pizza parlor in a town between our schools. Delicious pizza might I add. I don't know if it was his charm or maybe it was my irrationally idea to become a WAG, but I really liked him. He was very genuine (at the time) and polite. The date lasted about an hour, we had great conversation and there was never an awkard moment. So everything I said was nice, right? All the giggles and gaggles. PUH-LEASE!! Now that I look back at it, all we did was talk about him! We talked about baseball, his hometown, more baseball, his favorite team...baseball team. And do you know why we talked about it? BECAUSE I WAS ASKING ALL THE QUESTIONS and it came to a point where I just couldn't think of any more questions to ask. Someone can be cute, but have zero personality - watch out for those people. So I went home, with a smile from ear to ear. I told everyone about him..mistake number #1. I added him on Snapchat...mistake #2. I had a sorority formal coming up and he didn't give me an answer until the last minute (it was NO btw - surprise, surprise). And then when I asked the gut - renching question; "What are your dating intentions?", he quite literally said, "just feeling out the vibes". MISTAKE #3!!! Just bad all around. But before we continue on, please forgive me, my WAG dreams were too big for my head to make rational decisions.

I was so gulliuble and high off of having a crush, I actually planned to drive up to see him. Yes, you heard that right. I was going to waste my gas, my money to go see a man that only paid for dinner. I was insane back then. I texted him that I was the free and would be able to come up there to spend the day. This is SO unlike me...the influence he over me was embarrassing. Of course he said yes, of course he said he missed me, annd of course I was so happy when he said all of that. But to my core, I just knew I couldn't stay the night. So I texted him that he shouldn't expect anything from me, but i was still excited to see him. Best desicion of my life. I can't remember the exact text he replied with, but it was somewhere along the lines of, well if you're not going to have sex with me, then don't bother coming. That's how I read that text. I proceeded to cry and rant to my poor friends who had to endure this with me. I didn't want to just leave him on open thought, so I thought long and hard about what I should say to him. It took me 15 minutes to just say "ok" and the cherry on top was the sorority rituals taking place that day - every. single. girl. saw all of my emotions. Nice right? But I'll never regret not driving up there.

I wouldn't say this was a bad experience, but a learning lesson. It's always a learning lesson.