Love to love you, baby baby

So our story continues...

Lilie pulls up and joins the group as well. We basically spent the entire evening with each other. Which was cool. After a while, other Sonic crew members starting arriving as well - just about everyone was there (except cooks, of course.) Just off the top of my head: Ray, Rudy, Freddie, Kenny, Tracy, Megan, Erin, Kristen, Emily, Erica, Allison, Sunny, Katie, and probably some others I'm forgetting.

I was surprised Katie showed up. Her and I were the only people there not drinking. Normally under those circumstances, I'd hang out with her, but I was a little... preoccupied. My non-drinking elicited some comments, even from Lilie. She tried to get me to drink a few times, but I stuck with water as normal. Oh, and a DR Pepper.

So yeah, I hung out with Lilie all evening. At one point, Erin's roommate asked if I was her boyfriend. After a moment of silence, she said something along the lines of "No. It's probably better that way. He's my boy." And she rubbed me on the back. I felt really down after that, and almost, almost left. But I didn't. And I think it's a good thing I didn't. So I finally put my arm around her, and she really responded. She like kinda cuddled to me. It felt really nice. Later, she started trying to tickle me. The only way I could get her to stop, or defend myself, was to hold both her hands, since she's not ticklish at all. That went on for maybe fifteen minutes. Before too long, she started to get tired and decided to head home. I walked to her car, and we kinda stood around there for a while. We talked a little, laughed randomly, and kissed. Nothing terribly hot and heavy or anything, just a few short closed-mouths lip-to-lip kisses. Very nice.

Went to work today, and everyone was supporting the hypothesis that she was, in fact, interested in me, in light of her behavior at the party. I finally started to believe them.

So of course, Shelly comes in to get her schedule for next week as I'm working on the deposit, and tells me that Lilie told her (before the barbacue) that she just wants to be friends.

Of course.

Analysis to come.