This is it....

A pile of rocks.....

That's what Stonehenge is to me, and I haven't a damn clue what Paul was hoping to find over there... he didn't explain to me at first what he went there for... but he came back with answers... chilling answers....

"Assuming I'm alive by then... I'm going to die again on the 12/21/12"

I looked at him like he was fucking daft... How can anyone say that with such certainly is beyond me at this point... but then he continued...

"But I'm going to do something, die for something, important beyond all of us"

Again he said this with such certainty, it was chilling... he didn't say why he felt this way, or what he encountered while he was out there... but he looked more "alive" than he had in the entire time he had been back with us.....

Well... if he's right... then were going to make the best we can in what time we have yet.... Once our business is done, were going to go get married.


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Well in other news at least, Antonio came through again, he examined that... goop... that he had found at some of Paul's teleporting sites... and well... Paul's not leaving it behind... When Paul left for Stonehenge, he didn't leave any of it behind.

So Antonio figured something else was leaving it at the scene... and we got our answer...

It's because it was being left behind by spYder... Yeah... He was stalking Paul this whole time.....

Antonio thinks he has enough to tie it down to Ryan's psychic signature... with a few little gadgets he had picked up... we tracked him down to a location, we might be able to storm there hideout and take down all three of them at once, if were very very lucky.

Were not being stupid about this... We are actually about to head out to do the deed now... if any of us survives.. we should report back in a couple days... if this is our last post... then well... you know the rest of the story...

Best of luck to all of you... in case we don't see you again.

Botched Ambush

As a team, we work well together, if we could stay as a team all the time we should be okay..

I don't think that asshole with the sickles realized we were all in the hotel tonight, at least when he, shadow-teleported out of the closet, as best as we can tell, cold clocked Antonio and went for the kill on me, he didn't see Paul dash out of the bathroom, grab him with one hand, and slam him head first into the wall.

This happened about 30 minutes ago, so I think they thought they would catch us sleeping... They were wrong...

Then Paul demonstrated some of the strength of his, by lifting him up by his *face* with one arm and shoved him out the third story window... the only problem was, Paul went out the window with him... Antonio was quick to leap out after the pair... I.. well I personally opted for the elevator, I'm still not at 100 percent.

Paul and Antonio describe it best from here, Paul slammed the bastard into the roof of a car, and was honestly, well, Antonio seems to think Paul was trying to tear his face off or something before getting kicked off, Antonio jumped in and kicked the car in a way to roll it over with telekinesis, the proxy melted into the shadow formed by the car and barely avoided being crushed by it (Paul described that as being pretty badass)

The guy then tried to take out Antonio by leaping out of his shadow and stab him in the back with both Sickles.. he didn't mange to do so, Paul was on him fast.. like blink and you miss it fast, he started by punching him out of his swing, then reached into the guys outfit, and brought out that horrid Bokken... that evil thing Paul wields... He tried to bring it down in the Proxy's face  (Again with the face!) and only struck floor, so help me god it looked like the asphalt cracked a bit.

Then the guy steps out of the hotel Lobby, and bull-rush's Paul, Paul charges back and swings at the Proxy, who parries Paul's strike, with great effort, then ducks low swinging for Paul's legs, Paul leaps up over the swing, and uses the downward momentum to bring the Bokken down on the Proxy, who at this point, was, you guessed it in a shadow... he dropped out of sight, and didn't reemerge...

Meanwhile, I found out that spYder seems to have a second Henchmen, some little girl about my sized in go-go girl clothes swinging a sledge hammer at me the second I come out of the elevator, I barely got down below the attack, I sweep her legs out of her, and try to kick her in her the head, she rolls away from me avoiding my attack, I'm slower than normal, because of my wound.. and she tries to capitalize on it, thrusting the head of the Sledge at me, which I side step and counter with a kick to her ribs, which she just *tanks* her way through (I swear I felt something come loose) rather than defend, she swings the sledge hammer at me catching me, not with the head but the handle in the left shoulder, it was still enough to cause me to go down.

So I'm on the ground, and she tries to overhead smash me with that sledge, rather than roll out of the way, I give her with both feet in the stomach, ruining her momentum and causing her to tumble... her Shadowy cohort then runs in and grabs her, before making a hasty retreat just as the boys are coming in...

In the end, none of us are really hurt, just tired... it was a hard 15 minutes of fighting... and now to make things worse, Paul says he has to make a short trip... to god damn Stonehenge... how the fuck is that supposed to be short? Well he says he plans on going there via the Sanctuary, and he'll be back in a day or two...

He doesn't explain why either.. he just up's and leaves Antonio and myself hanging, I mean at this point I think we drove them off, but it makes no god damn sense... what the hell could possibly be there?

Antonio says that he also has to talk to me about something, but he won't say what that is... Ugh.. were great as a team, but we need to work on our teamwork I say.

Back in the real world

So it's been a while since I've posted, sorry to keep everyone worried about me.

It's Maya by the way, I'm back from my temporary stop in the worlds worst out-patient center.

Nothing against Paul, my stomach feels like he actually made my wound worse somehow... even if it's fully stitched up like a professional did it... That raises questions really. I guess I can't stay mad at him for what happened.. I mean I kinda get it now, why he's doing what he's doing.

I've seen what the Sanctuary is, and I'm being told it's okay to spill the beans on what I know about it.

I woke up about a day or two ago, I was out for... shit days now.. Paul was sitting in his reading chair thumbing through some E-book on his tablet, when he noticed I was up he set the tablet down and just looked at me through his one good eye, he wasn't wearing the bandages at the time, I could see the scar where his eye was, his arm was still slinged but he was able to hold the tablet in his arm, which was impressive considering his arm was broken a few days before.

"I'm glad to see you awake hon..." He says, not smiling.

I had a hard time replying, he felt... just so frankly unreal, I know Manic had posted about how... freaky and unreal he seems, but experiencing it was something different.

"Yeah.. I... Ow..." I winced... I guess I was still recovering

"You still need to rest Maya, that weapon almost went clean through you, we barely got you put back together"

"Who's we?"

"Don't worry about it."

I didn't push at that one, Paul must of had access to someone with some medical skills needed to fix me up.

"Paul.... Where are we?" At this point, the layout of the room was the exact same as the layout of his apartment, down to the finest details, but looking out the window I only saw a sort of mist, like a perpetual grey fog that stretched out as far as I could see, no end in sight.

"This is my Sanctuary. My resting place when I'm not out in the real world, where we are at, is basically side-steeped between Planes of existence, in the mist between worlds... I guess a good way of explaining it is the Astral Plane, though I'm not sure that fits. I know here's safe, here my needs are met, I can rest, and rejuvenate, for my trips to the real world, so I can get what I want from there"

"You mean like revenge? I mean that's why you ended up in Pittsburgh right? because of Ryan?"

Paul smiles and sits by me in bed  "Actually, I wanted to go somewhere safe when I left the path, yes I wanted revenge, I wanted it so bad that I actually ached for it in my very soul... but at that point, I wanted to be safe.. and here I am, I'm outside of our own world, I'm beyond even the Slenderman's reach, a tiny world, created by my own will alone"

"That just happens to look like your apartment"

"Well I did feel comfortable there" He half smiles and hands me a bottled water

"Paul this place isn't real, this isn't your real apartment, this is a mock up, a set, like some kind of stage play, you may feel safe here, and I do too, but Antonio's still out there, and he's alone now, we need to go back there and find him, bring him here, regroup and decide how were going to stop Ryan and-" Paul cuts me off sighing

 "Maya, here we don't have to worry about it, not right now, I wish I could bring Antonio here, but he's a proxy, he's far to tied to the Slenderman to live here, hell my weapon can't even be here because, this place is Antithesis to the weapon, and Proxies as well" He stands up and paces back and forth waiving his good arm about. "Besides why the hell should I go back there except to kill Ryan, that world *Killed* me, I *Died* in that world... at this point the whole damn world can go to hell as long as I can keep the two of us safe"

I pulled myself to my feet, and slaped Paul hard "Fuck you Paul!, Fuck you! Antonio is our friend, and what of Lucia, and Manic, I will *Not* Abandon the two of them, or anyone we know, to stay in this... Dollhouse you made for yourself."

I give him the sternest look I can muster grabbing my guts in extreme pain "Send me back... you can have your so called 'Sanctuary', I'll take the real world any fucking day of the week"

Paul guides me back to bed, and gets me comfortable, I can tell he's deeply hurt... he just says one more thing that day, before he steps out... I later find out this was to talk to Manic... I guess now that I'm caught up that Manic explained how tired and worn out he was, I guess I know why, I mean he must not have slept at all while watching over me.

He got back a few hours later, he sat back down in the chair, I pretended to be sleeping at this point, I just didn't want to deal with his selfish ass, I felt like a prisoner at this point... I was wrong of course...

All he did was sit back down in the chair and started reading that book again... A while later I fell back to asleep

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I woke up the "Next" day, to a scream, Paul had fallen asleep at some point, and he apparently didn't have a great dream... I woke up, looking around Paul was no longer in the room... I got up. much easier this time, my wound healed a shocking amount over night, and found splashing water on his face in the bathroom... his arm was out of the sling, he noticed me in the mirror... with his one eye and he just said one thing...

"Bad dreams...."

I just nodded and went to the kitchen to get something to eat.. I was pretty damn hungry by that point...

Paul joined me later and sat down... he had severe bags under his eyes and I could tell he only went to sleep, not because he wanted too, but probably because his body forced the issue...

"I thought about what you said last night Maya" He looked at my sternly "Maybe I do need to spend more time out there, Ryan won't kill himself while I hide in here... I need you to rest one more day, then I'll send you back,  and this time.... I'll be there as well..."

I smile at him, even if he still creeps me the fuck out with that "I'm real but not real" shit about him.

"Okay Paul, we'll do this together... the three of us, we'll beat Ryan.... together"

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Paul is behind me, his arm heals unnaturally fast, though his eye is not healing at all, he told me it was the price he paid for being able to do what he can now do, I'm just about to call Antonio... were getting the team back together... and maybe.... Just maybe, we'll win this fight. I know Lucia sent me the invite to crash over at Antithesis, although Paul seems inclined to pass on it, something about how he has no place there.... I'm tempted to take her up on it, even if I'm not a proxy....

My personal little Shitstorm

Ugh I can't deal with this shit right now.....

First off, Manic I read the comment your friend Kat left on your blog.. I'll repost what you said at the end because.. shit... I don't believe her but.... shit......

But first I want to read to you a little poem slipped under our now abandoned Hotel room door today....

Ahem....

"Poor little Paul, laid in a field, bleeding from his broken head, then down came the slender, all nice and tender, who fixed him up with our dead!"

Signed by "spYder" known to us as Ryan...

Did I mention this was written in blood? Oh yeah because it was written in blood!!!

Oh Jesus.... The more I hear, the longer I stay here, the more I want to cut my losses and run... But Paul and I didn't run out on Antonio... And Antonio has no intention on running out on Paul....

This to much, Why would Slenderman have a "Catch and release program" for this... A Proxy cohort of Lucia's posted  in a comment here, told us that there was a rumor of, direct quote from her blog, "lunatic with a broken sword clubbing people."... I've asked for a chance to talk to this proxy so we could maybe learn more about this... but I don't know... this is heavy... I mean fucking heavy... a

Also, I started following the blog written by the "Good-Ryan" who runs, as far as  I can tell, the only Proxy safe-house in Pittsburgh who had this it say in brief about Paul... He doesn't know Paul like I do, he wouldn't do this.. I mean hurt innocents, the man he reportedly killed.. there had to a reason, like self defense, I mean he used a broken Bokken.. it seemed like an act of desperation or he would of found a real weapon or something.

Shit we all just got in town a couple days ago, and were leaving an impact... I was hoping this would be low key, so we wouldn't get any attention considering my partner here is a rouge Proxy and all....

Anyways without further Ado... here's what Manic's proxy girlfriend had to saw about what she had "Seen" of Paul during her time on the Path....


Manic posted this here... I didn't edit this quote in any way.

"I remeber her telling me something, after the kill I made, sort of fuzzy like it wasn't actually me, I was laughing at the misfortune of it all. She mantioned ,Paul Laughing that, Of Course the Slender Man would 'Release a monster like that into the world' I pressed a little bit she said ' I Don't know much about what happened, but I saw Slender Man carry his all but lifeless 'body' (She said this with a strange emphasise) into that place beyond the Path, the Place we don't even dare to go, even with our great curiosities' I nodded knowing where she meant, ' But he took 6 generic proxies with him?, It's just after an few hours..... only that guy, um, um, ...' 'Patch', I interjected, 'Yeah him, and the Slender Man came out, She said he seemed more 'alive than ever' Again she said it with a strange emphasise, I hope this helps you to stay ALive."

I guess what Manic was trying to tell us, I mean all of us, it that were should probably not try to stop Paul from killing Ry- I'm sorry "spYder"... because in his state he might damn well be willing to kill anyone in his way... I'm praying to god that's not the case.

Our first real day in Pitsburgh

Alright so apparently we choose just this perfect time to show up here, there's apparently some kind of proxy shit storm going about and were stuck in the middle of it at the moment... If were lucky that means no one will be focusing on the two of us, and we can, god willing find Paul before he kills Ryan and possibly slip permanently off the deep end...

Honestly, the search is slow, we mostly did the tourist thing, checked out the landmarks... walked.... had a philly cheese steak for dinner... tourist stuff... Antonio managed to get some prepaid Air-card so we can at least use the tablet for posting as opposed to the dial-up quality internet in the hotel, so that was a plus..

There was one thing... and article on the local news site, one that stood out.

"Man found murdered, weapon appears to be some sort of blunt weapon stuck as a club or Japanese training sword"

..... Paul.... What the fuck are you doing.......

We made it!

Okay so were in Pittsburgh now, what has been described as "Proxy-Central"....

We managed to shave down on the time, by pretty much breaking most of the trafic safety laws I can think of, in other words, I let Antonio drive for a while...

And yes Manic, it's possible to drive while your passenger types for you! We didn't stop, you made it pretty clear that if we don't find Paul before he finds and kills Ryan, then he will be lost to us...

Honestly... His comments on the last post... are disturbing, that's not how he types normally... hell we've had scraps before now, but except for Ryan, he always fought to wound or knock out opponents, never kill them...

Paul plans on killing Ryan...

I don't know where we are going to go from here, I might reach out to some of the runner networks in town, what's left of them, to see if anyone has any information regarding Paul, or to see if there had been any rumors...

So that's where yalls can help, have then get in touch with us at Soulpatched(AT)Gmail.com if you guys learn anything that might help get us in the right direction...

Lucia from... okay where's that link... Here has offered to help, and yeah, were probably going to need it... Honestly though, after what happened to Manic and Paul, I'm kinda really about asking for outside help, since bad things have been happening to people helping us lately...


So here's to a successful two day drive, we start the search tomorrow.. will post again once we have more information.

Road trip

Antonio thinks he might know where Paul is... It's a definite long shot but he figures that since Paul was probably thrown without a destination in mine, unlike Antonio who wanted to get back to me, that Paul likely was thrown to where his heart desired to be...

Which was not with me apparently....

"Ow" was what I said about it... but Then Antonio explained where else Paul might have have ended up.... He also told me that Paul was not in the process of being tortured, murdered, he wasn't screaming in terror, or contorted with fear, or fighting to save his life...

Paul looked, according to Antonio, like he was having a normal conversation with the Slenderman.

That's not even slightly normal, I mean, what the shit? Proxies prostrate themselves before it, Runners flee from it or do pants-shiting  experiments to understand it...

Paul apparently has conversation's with it....

Antonio also said his wounds were dressed and mended, like it was done by a professional medical doctor... he wore bandages over his left eye, the eye that Ryan gouged out, and his left arm was in a sling...  Someone even mended and cleaned his clothes for fucks sake...

What happened in there is not just one of many questions we have to ask Paul when we find him, and were going to start where Antonio's contacts said Ryan was at...

Pittsburgh...

Google maps says that we could get there in maybe a day and a half if we don't take breaks, but considering a certain Proxy buddy of mine never god his god damn license, then yeah were going to take breaks on the way..

We could make there in two days....

We need supplies, and a car, despite what Anon posted, I'm going to have a had time believing that the police wouldn't want to talk to us about the epic shit ton of bodies we've been leaving in our wake lately... Which got me thinking...

Paul had a spare car... a really kick-ass car... A car I know for a fact he didn't "get rid of" like he told me.

Were getting that car that I fell in love with, if were driving cross country, then were doing it in style.

He's alive!

He's just not here....

So I've been quiet the last few days, Antonio, Manic, and I have been trying to get ready to hit the location we thought Paul would have been taken to...

Manic had speculated that Paul would have been taken somewhere particularly painful to him, I could only think of one place.

The graveyard his mother is buried... Paul was in his teen's when she died and losing her was a rather traumatic incident. I can't think of anywhere else on this earth that he would have been taken....

The night before though... of good lord I don't know what we were thinking, Manic, Antonio and I got all dolled up and went to one of the most expensive restaurants we could find, and pulled a rather epic Dine-and-Dash...

Yeah well that's what I had told them, truth be told while they snuck out, I went and secretly paid for dinner...

Well at this point I'm sure that would put Antonio at ease, poor kid couldn't relax long enough to eat... and Manic... well I don't think he's going to be able to respond for a while....

So lets cut to the chase then... After an early morning drive down to Ocean Shores Wa, where I learned from Paul's dad was where she was buried (that's a conversation I hope to never repeat), it was only a 2 hour drive from where we were holding up...

What we found there was not what I had expected... by a tree, near where Paul's mothers grave was I saw him... Laying there bleeding out from a horrid wound on his side... still bleeding from his damaged eye... like he was just left there... and I swear to god he looked at me....

But it wasn't him... it was a sorta glitchy vision of him... probably from that day after he was taken... He looked at me to say something, like he was telling me to run... then...

Then the vision changed to add the god damn Slenderman... It was my first time seeing it... and even with him not there I almost lost my breakfast looking at it... it was... frankly horror inducing to say the least.... I froze up, Antonio put a hand on my shoulder to calm me, I had forgotten that he was even there.

I couldn't help but tear up at what I saw next... the Slenderman lifted Paul off the ground, wrapping his tentacles around him, burning Paul as he pulled him close to him... Paul was screaming the entire time, only there was not sound... I could see he was still clutching that broken Bokken hilt...

Then I saw something... open behind the Slenderman as Paul was pulled into it as well... I saw the desperate fear as he shook his head looking at the portal... I didn't see what was past it, but Paul did, and it caused him so much terror that... god I started crying on the spot when I saw that...

Manic came up after the Vision... He and Antonio had at that point decided they had to "Walk the Path" to find Paul in there... I have to admit there really was no way I was going in there... but as we were discussing this, a van crashed the gates of the graveyard, and out came about 4 proxies...

It was a hard fight... I mean they were definitely not to scale with either Antonio or Manic... but they did have automatic riffles... while I had a pistol... Antonio threw around his freaky Slender bolts at them, and Manic held his own... It didn't take long for the proxies to run out of anmo and for us to take them down...

My training paid off, I took one of them down myself with a roundhouse kick followed by a stab in the chest via the knife Paul gave me.


I don't know what happened after that, because Antonio was thrown back alone... Manic was going... and Paul, according to Antonio was thrown out as well... Manic sacrificed himself for them... but Paul didn't land here... So shit... I have to wait till Antonio wakes up to get an idea where he ended up, and how were going to get Manic back!

Look if anyone happens to spot him, drop a comment in the meanwhile!

Training Montage

Manic and Antonio, with some help from me, might have an idea where Paul was taken. that's good news.... Man has also been giving me some training in fighting....

That hurt.....

But I'm learning, sure he seems to of cribbed his training practices from Draagonball or something, but I think I'm getting better, I won't be taken by surprise again, not like last time. I actually landed a few kicks on him, Antonio's leg is looking allot better even if we could find anyone wiling to not ask questions while operating on it, but Manic had that covered as well...

We just might pull this off... If where we think he is is correct.

Feeling useless

So I spent the day listening to Antonio and Manic bounce idea's as to how were going to find... Yes were still in the "Find" stage of this project.. Paul..

Okay there in the find stage... right now I'm just being a gloried coffee girl... Yeah I know that this is not my area of expertise... but I just feel so god damn useless... I mean Manic and Antonio have been at it for almost 3 days straight now.

Time is of the essence now... I know the longer we take, the more likely Paul is going to come back damaged.. in a very major way... I had suggested investigating something called the "Path of fallen leaves" to see if we could hopefully get anywhere in finding Paul.... Manic.. well was not polite about shooting down... so here I am back to brewing coffee for the boys again...

I'm sitting here... listening to a coffee pot peculate... holding that piece of Paul's broken Bokken... thinking how useless I was there was well, I couldn't help them fight... I was only able to get out bags to the car so we could bail.... and yeah sure I took down a proxy with my Tazer... but the second Ryan got eyes on me I was out like a light...

I'm not this fucking useless, I know I'm not... But I let Paul, and Antonio down.... and I don't want that to happen again... but what fucking good am I here, I don't even know as much about this as Paul did, and Paul was reading Manic's blog for advice.....

Gods... I better go get them there got damn coffee... they sound frustrated again....

A recap of recent events

Hey it's Maya... I guess for the short and or long term.. I'll be maintaining Paul's blog....

It's been almost two days since Ryan attacked us, the bastard.... I figured I should get my take on what happened...

Ryan had showed up and while I missed some of the conversation, he pretty much gave Paul an ultimatum... either he could stand with them, or die with us.....

Fucking bastard... in Paul's defense he told Ryan to "Go fuck himself"... I knew I loved him for a reason. Paul demanded answers, that he wanted the truth....

Yeah Ryan told him alright, he told Paul that his family was never real, that he was part of a "Special" project, to see if they could get a particularly strong willed runner to jump sides if they altered his memories... it had almost worked considering he fought Antonio several times and almost killed me in our own apartment.

Paul and I.... the night before.... God damnit Paul why did you have to try and play the hero!

Ryan orders the attack, Paul empties the clip to his hand gun and takes down two proxes before there numbers drove us into the building.... the fighting was floor by floor, Apartment by apartment.... I just barely saved Antonio after one proxy had taken a sledge hammer to his leg, Antonio before then had dropped a few of his buddies I suppose....

I was... Maybe 20 minutes before the rest of them were thrashed of had just plain bailed out of the attack... the few times I saw Paul during that time it was usually finishing off a Proxy that he had in some way been engaged by.... The last time... just before I was captured by Ryan... he had a nasty gash in his right side, and a bloodied nose... his clothes were torn... he was badly beaten by one of them before Paul shot him he told me....

I don't know what happened after that... Paul got Antonio to an emergency exit and antonio made it to a car and escaped to the location Manic met us... well he would have if Manic didn't decide to get premptive and arrive taking out a few proxies outside of the building.

Ryan got me a bit after that, knocked me out briefly...

I woke up on the roof a bit later... Paul was standing there.... looking like the hero I know him to be... hurt.. bloodied... but determined... I don't know what was said before  they started fighting... but I was there to watch there fight...

Ryan... he's not like Antonio at all... Antonio uses his power as a proxy like a tool... he has a lot of finesse about him, and his heart doesn't let him abuse that power because he knows where it came from...

Ryan uses that same power like a club.... a weapon only...  I was blacking in an out of the fight for the most part... I saw Paul get tossed like a rag doll just blocking a shot, I saw Paul clobber ryan with his Bokken looking like he shattered one of Ryan's arms in the process... I saw....

I saw Paul scream in pain as Ryan gouged one of Paul's eyes with his thumb... then I saw the bastard bleed when Paul stabbed Ryan between the ribs with a switchblade afterwards....

The fight ended after that... Paul was bleeding bad from his left eye... and If I was able to clear my head from... what ever the hell Ryan did.. I might have noticed his broken ribs...

I guess none of that matters not.. we know the rest of the story... Manic got me out of there... and then Slenderman showed up...

It's funny you know... up to that point none of us had ever encountered it... I wonder if we only did now because a number of his minions died... or... I don't know....

We'll get him back, Manic and Antonio are bouncing idea's off each other as to how to find him... we figure he has to be alive.. otherwise the Slenderman would not have taken him...

But if we get him back... will he still be him?

Memory 3

Okay this is not Paul, he's out right now buying extra ammo for the pistol. This is actually Maya, because he was having writers block trying to write up how our first date went I volunteered to do it for him. :D

It's okay for me to be here alone, I brought one of my Granddad's hunting shotgun's with me, and Antonio is "Guarding" the Wii right now =_=

I swear he's such a child sometimes, even if he could flick his hand and toss me out the window.

It's okay though, it's better than being home alone right now.

Okay so lets see now, okay our first date.. So as you might have remember if you've been following the blog, that Paul mentioned that I kinda dared him to go on a date with me...

It was the most crazy, wild, awesome, thing I've ever done even if he, well he wasn't always the sharp dressed man he is today. I mean he was nice enough to pick me up from work... but wow.. he was still a mess. He wore this ragged old grey coat, with a couple holes in it, Some shoes with holes in the bottom, stained blue jeans he probably worked in the day before.

Paul was a mess okay! I mean wow, I''m glad I didn't pick him up from home, it would have been hell introducing him to my parents dressed like that, I think me must of thought nothing would come out of it, I mean he gets to go to a free concert, and I get to not get felt up by some drunk asshole. It was a Win-Win situation!

Well as we all know looks are not everything in life, and Paul was a perfect gentlemen, where his clothes were a mess, his car was impeccable, this was before he started to "Batman-out" everything by hiding weapons all over the place.

And was that car  was nice, I mean the poor thing died a couple years ago, I think he might still have it somewhere, but he had this sweet 69 Camaro painted in  dark blue with silver highlights... It was amazing, I mean I guess at the time he didn't take it out to much.

Sorry off topic, but I'll tell you guys, at the risk of sounding shallow, but I love cars, and that car really made me give Paul a chance. Hell if a guy is going to break out a car that nice to take out on a date in, then you had better give the guy one.

Well there's not much to say about the concert itself, I mean here I am, rocking out like a high schooler to one of the bands my dad used to listen to, and Paul, well I'm bouncing around like the little rocker girl I was, but Paul, he was so... Stoic about the concert, I could tell he was enjoying the music, but it was in a  totally different way.

Paul doesn't head bang, he doesn't dance to it, he just stands there and feels the music hit him, like he's letting it pass through him. Sure I might of just be remembering it wrong, he could of been standing there totaly bored out of his skull... But there is one thing about Paul he never told you guys..

Paul wears a hearing aid... He's not completely deaf, but he suffered severe hearing loss as a teenager in his right ear. I didn't notice it because how long his hair was at the time.and he dosen't need to sign or anything, I mean he can hear just find out of the left ear.

Yeah I found that out on our first date, when he was scratching behind his ear and there it is, sticking out of his ear. I just asked a guy with hearing problems to a music concert...

You can imagine how embarrassed I was, But to be fair, he probably didn't know I was blonde at the time since I was dying my hair purple at the time. Okay so that's not even kinda close.

Okay concert's over around... midnight or so, he tells me he doesn't work tomorrow and he's a night person so we go out for coffee on the waterfront... Most of you probably don't know what the Ruston way water front is like, but that late at night, with almost no one there, it's probably the most beautiful spot in the city.... I mean I couldn't help my self, were both sitting there watching the water of the Puget sound, with no one else around, I rest my head on his shoulder, and he puts and arm around me.

We sat like that, for almost 4 hours just talking, it was great.

I may have asked him out on a whim to the concert, but I loved that man by the end of that concert...

What happened after that, well that's just between me and Paul...