2 Years

It's really rather hard to believe that it's been almost two years now since I first came to New York to meet Jay. We had talked for months and finally, it was about damned time I meet him. The LGBT group at Towson was taking a day-trip to New York and I took advantage of that. I rode up on the bus with them and ditched them as soon as I got into the city. I told them I was spending the night with a friend and was riding a Greyhound home.

And then I met Jay. He was adorable, funny and smart. He took me to a place where they had the BEST cake. The cake was pretty good but the coffee was crap. We went back to his dorm room (later to be MY dorm room) and I fell asleep early. He played The Christmas Song while I pretended to sleep. That was a good day.

After that, I jumped at the opportunity to see Jay later that month when my friends from Nancies.org were heading up to NYC to see DMB. DMB ... the perfect excuse to see Jay. I brought him two gifts - a Wilco CD and the paperback copy of Lord of the Rings. We both deviously plotted a way to get away from the others just long enough to spend some time together in the hotel before the concert. When we got back, I gave him the LotR and he gave me an even better gift - a very long, passionate kiss. I will never forget that kiss, nor will I forget our hurried exit to get back to Madison Square Garden before the concert started.

Todd called on my cell phone and asked where we were. "We're on our way," I started. "There was a ... .... bus ... accident. And it ... held up traffic ... we had to go around a few ... ... blocks." If I ever told a really bad lie, it was that night. I don't know how the hell any of our friends could NOT have known we were making out in the hotel.

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It's two years later and I am still absolutely in love with that boy. Our official two year anniversary is in February, but I fell in love with John in the first weekend in December, two years ago.