marty08: Thanks
Been a busy weekend at work and had to take care of some personal stuff in life, but I'll recap what happened on Friday night and Saturday..
J picked me up and we headed to the Beauty Bar again. When we arrived we were the only guys there that weren't working, and there were a few dozen women standing around talking. He got us the first round of drinks and we sat on a couch in the room for a little while, talking about random things including the male/female ratio of the place. He asked me if I thought a particular girl was attractive and I looked at her, couldn't really place an opinion and said I wasn't sure. J laughed and apologized for bringing me to a place with so many women, and said he'd make it up to me by taking me to S4 (the gay club in Dallas.)
Within 30-40 minutes a lot of guys started coming in along with other women, so the place started to fill up a bit. We went outside to the patio to have a smoke and J talked about his newly ex girlfriend a bit, opening his feelings on the matter a bit. We finished our beers and we went to get another round. Initially he was going to pay but I wanted to pay for at least one round since this was
his night. Then we began to get into the music and started to dance a bit. No one in the bar seemed to be dancing much, especially for a Friday night, and there was still plenty of room to dance around. Once the beats started to get really interesting, I let myself meld with the music. I ended up attracting the attention of a few women during this time and danced with them, and after a few more minutes I became the center of the dance floor. I had some people cheering me on, and I saw someone raise a camera and take some photos from behind the crowd in front of me. I had a LOT of fun, and after the song ended I decided I needed to go outside to cool down, so J went with me.
We sat down on a bench and J commented on how I was getting more girls than he was already. As we had another smoke I realized how much I was sweating while dancing, and told J I needed to get water soon. He smirked and noted something about my low alcohol tolerance for some reason, then said "you're a cheap date" and smiled. I was a bit surprised about his statement but just smiled back. After a while we went back in again, and we had finished our second round of drinks. He asked if I wanted another and I told him I'd wait a bit. I ended up dancing to another song and got the attention of some people again, then suddenly felt very worn out and went outside again.
Apparently J had been texting with a friend during that time who was at another bar and she was someone he briefly dated before his current(?/ex) girlfriend. He asked if I wanted to go to another bar I had heard of before, and I agreed since I was going along with his night. We closed out our small tabs and headed back to his car. On the drive to the other place he started telling me more history about his ex, then details about the girl we were meeting with at the other bar, and more personal details. We talked about a lot of things since the drive was about 20-25 minutes away.
When we arrived J's female friend (who I'll call N) was outside with several other people, and she was excited to see J. She bought both J and myself a round of drinks; a strong mixed drink for him, and I got a beer. Right after we sat down with N's friends, several of them said they were leaving and left. It was just me, J, N, and N's (very drunk) female friend. On the drive to this bar, J was telling me how sociable and fun N is, and seemed to project how much he liked her. The entire time we were there at the bar, most of the conversation was talking about the complication of N's friend's relationship. If not that, N was flirting with J and he seemed slightly uneasy about it.
Eventually it was cutoff time for alcohol and the bar was shutting down, and they began kicking everyone off the property. The four of us slowly left while N and her friend were trying to find their car. J said we'd find them really quick, and we ran off to his car. We circled around the parking lot to find them, and the girls were talking with some other people they ran into, and J decided to park in another spot and get out to talk to them. He handed me his iPhone and told me to select some music, then got out of the car and left me by myself.
When I unlocked his phone to get to the music app, the last thing he had open was him texting N. He had sent a text message only a few minutes prior, saying "Michael has a crush on me" without any prior texts relating to that. That shocked me a bit, wondering what was going on in his mind about that considering he said he had no issues with it. After almost 10 minutes or so, he finally came back to the car and said I selected one of his favorite podcasts and complimented me on my choice. We started driving back home and he inquired what I thought of N, talked more about his ex, and then got into talking about cars.
He brought up a story about when he was driving with a female friend of his and gets excited when he sees certain cars, saying that if there's one thing he's attracted to more than women is cars. He then stated "This may be a bit awkward, sorry" and said when he stopped at a red light and saw a certain car he's never seen in person before, he got excited and grabbed his friend's boob by accident out of excitement. Though he did this by grabbing my chest with his hand for a moment, a bit longer than I thought was normal. To me it wasn't awkward.. it was pretty hot and that aroused me a bit, but I mentally shook it off.
He went south on the highway instead of north and it seemed he was taking me back to my place to bring me home for the night, but shortly before reaching my place he remembered we hadn't finished watching The Shining, and got excited about it. He told me it was up to me if I wanted to go to his place or not, and I agreed to. So he did a u-turn at one of the highway exits, and we headed to his place. We spent a few hours before watching it (at like 4am) watching random videos or reading different articles on the internet, or standing out in his patio having a smoke and having talks about personal life.
One of the things J brought up was his tastes in dance music that originated from gay culture that rose several decades ago, and said "I must be the gayest guy when it comes to my tastes.. but I don't have sex with men." I found the statement a bit bold and true, but told him "Well don't worry about it. You are <his first and last name>, that's all that matters." He said he really appreciates that, and we talked about other things I can't recall at this time.
Eventually we started watching The Shining to see if we could finish it this time; we didn't, but we did get further. We both fell asleep on the couch again.
I'll finish typing out a few other things that happened on Saturday, but I have to get ready and leave for work at the time of this typing.
