Day 31 - July 29th

Day 31 - July 29th
First date with Rachel at Bimbo
Really cool night beers and shit then drank with English Aaron
Still Behind
Uhgh

        I met Rachel at The Workers Pub in Fitzroy where Sean, Benny and a few more of the Adelaide guys worked. They got me a cushy job taking money on the door when bands were playing, and one night I was sitting at the desk doodling on a bit of paper when Rach walked up and started chatting to me about my doodles (teehee). The Workers had a great night on Mondays where you could get pints of shit beer for $3 and jugs for $6, so I told her to meet me back there the following week. I was too scared to ask for her number, even when her friend came to take her away; “Oh that's okay, he doesn't want my number”, she chided, “I'm sure he has really nice conversations with girls all the time.”
        She was wrong, I thought about her all weekend, furious with myself for trying pass my cowardice off as laid-back cool. I pretended I didn't care, but I did, I cared so much, and I spent the weekend telling my friends about her, secretly terrified that when I went back on Monday she wouldn't show up.
        But she did. I walked in around 8pm and scurried frantically around the venue, knowing she wouldn't be there, slowly letting the truth I'd already accepted sink in as I berated myself: “This is what you get you fucking idiot, you were too scared to ask her for her fucking number and now she's gone. Fuck you.”
        I wasn't even sure if I'd recognise her, maybe she was there, but she wasn't looking for me, maybe I was just another nice conversation that she'd had? Then, on my second lap, I saw her standing at the bar.
        “I'm such an idiot! I should have got your number last week! What is it I need it right now! PLEASE!!”
        “Yeah you are!” She laughed through rolled eyes at me as we both breathed a sigh of relief. We held hands later as we walked down Brunswick St to the kebab shop where they put glossy pictures of customers up on the wall. She pointed out the ones of her and her friends on previous nights out and we ate pizza and chips with sweet chilli sauce. I still look for those pictures whenever I go in to get a $2.50 slice of pizza, but I think they must be gone now.

        We went on a date the following Sunday to this pub called Bimbo that had $4 pizzas. We talked about The Young Ones with Rick Mayal and Nigel Planned and Alexi Sayle and I told her I'd moved to Melbourne to be a comedian. She wanted to be an actor.
        I waited with her at the stop until her tram came, then kissed her goodbye and when she got on I jumped on my phone and posted something like “FUCK YES!!” to Facebook. I was so excited. She liked it and messaged me straight away laughing. I went back to the hostel and told everyone about her again.

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