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...

Memory 2

Okay so several days ago I opted to post about how I met my wife, to compare and contrast, I'll post the differences in a sort of timeline at the end of the post.

Well unlike the last post where Maya remembers my college grant falling through, I do remember starting college early on in 2006, yeah yeah, I started college late at around 25, I spent allot of time at home helping my dad with his dinner, so sue me.

Alright, so, I want to say before my second quarter there, I only made it through 2 full quarters before the grant fell through in this timeline, I fell in with a group of like minded people....

Okay they were LARPer's and SCA folk, I mean hell as we established I'm a trained Kendo practitioner, I won't claim to be qualified to teach it, but it's been a long time Hobby of mine, for at least the last 7 years, Ironically this was true in both timelines. so 2005, I started Kendo classes.

The nerd quotient was high with us, We would every third weekend of the month, take these PVC pipe's Wrap them up in foam and duck tape, and beat the spit out of each other in one of the nearby parks for a few hours, having fun, mostly....

At one of these events, I met the woman I would eventually marry...

God we must of looked ridiculous there, here I am in some Ren-Fair getup, wearing a pained barrel plastic chest plate sitting and have drinks with a woman in what could be described politely as a some-watt "Revealing" dress...we really hit it off, well as well as we can

Heh... Yeah turns out she was there with her brother... A big... ugly, son of a bitch.

I'm of course talking about Ryan..... Okay yeah I didn't mention that before now, sorry, for some reason it didn't seem to mater who she was related to, I guess that helps explain a bit of Ryan's anger right?

Hell I knew the guy at that point for about... oh... well heck I'm thinking 5 years at that point, I didn't even know he had a sister, he never brought her up, and she was just back from college back east.

So he walks up rather pissed and tells me that "If you wanted to get to know my sister, your going to have to fight me for the right"

Well who the hell am I going to say no, Lets ignore the fact that he had started Kendo around that time as well, he never rode it as far as I did, but at the time, we were equals at it.

So there I was dueling for the affections of my best friends sister, we fought it out for what felt like an hour, but in the Late-spring sun, something rare in Tacoma, we didn't care, the dual was long and hard, and just when he was about to defeat me, I got the final blow, I rolled out of his overheads chop, clipped him in the back of his knees and took his head.

Later Ryan would tell me that he was secretly okay with me talking to his sister, because at least he knew I was a good man, unlike other guys she's dated.

As the evening wore on, the three of us, had dinner, at a familiar diner that Maya had mentioned, my Wife and I would go there many times in the next few years, before it went under in 2009...

The year we god married....

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Sorry for dropping that Ryan, I know you asked me not to mention it but, it's important if i'm going to sort all this out, and frankly, I think it would help explain your motivations for wanting to find and wipe out this second proxy, I know you think it's Maya, but we don't know that yet.

Okay as you might have noticed this story creates a major hole that needs addressed, as I recall mentioning, My wife's family, doesn't remember me, except for Ryan, who does remember me, I think he still remembers me because of the lost girlfriend he mentioned, Sarah.

Ryan and I have both lost to the proxy's, were just handling it differently I suppose.


Okay now that we got the "How we met" stuff out of the way, here's a time line of collected events, I left my wife's and son's vanishing out of it for now. because, well I don't know, it feels wrong to time line that. I'll add to it as time rolls on, as you can see a few events match up. Ryan's an ace card I'm keeping in the wings, I won't ask Maya about him until the need comes up.

Year
2001 - (October) I meet Ryan in an online gaming chat (Wife-line)
2005 - (March) Started Kendo Classes (Both-Lines)
2006 - (January) Stated college (Wife-Line)
2006 - (May) Met wife at college (Wife-Line)
2006 - (September) Started work at the Plastic factory (wife-line)
2007
2008 - (December)Met Maya in Diner (Maya-Line)
2008
2009 - (June) The diner burned down (Both-Lines?)
2009 - (July) I get married to my wife (Wife-Line)
2010 - (March) My son is born (Wife-Line)
2011 - (July) Got inked with Hoody and Maya (Maya-Line)
2012 - (February) ****THE BLOG STARTS HERE****

Unless something comes up, my next post will be in a few days, about Maya's story about our first date. The Concert.