I met Zane at art school...I'd seen him around since the first day, but knew him only as "the guy who looks like a bee"...because he had a yellow devil lock, (www.misfits.com) yellow framed glasses, and a black and yellow striped sweater...
I also thought he was at least 24 years old, because he had this scrappy hippy beard. one day after christmas I got caught on a crowded rush hour skytrain ride with him, holding on to the same pole. I thought I should say hi to him, but I didn't know him, he didn't know me, and I was just too tired to make small talk. (later on I found he was thinking the exact same thing...)
I found, however that I couldn't stop looking at him, because he was just so weird and facinating...this weird art guy. I wondered where he was from, who his parents were,...what his friends were like, if he'd had a girlfriend before. I found myself looking at his hands and wondering where they'd been. Then this little thought came to me..."you're going to go out with him"....
NAAAHH>>....eeech, he's not even cute...he's got a weird face..."you're going to go out with him!"....eeww! stop thinking that, you don't even know him!....
When classes started up for the second simester, I was kind of pleased to see the Bee GUy in my class...because I'm kind of a weird art snob I like to surround myself with people that are stranger than me, to make myself feel more cool. I noticed that he had cut his hair and shaved off his beard...which made me realise he was about 6 years younger than I had origionally thought...
We all had to introduce ourselves...I said my name and told everybody that I wanted to do comics in the future.. zane said his name, and...I can't really remeber what he said,..he did say that he was from Victoria, and I thought that was typical...likely he also said that he wanted to do animation...but I know I really liked his name and thought it suited him.
At the break, i was surprised when he came up to me and asked me about my comics...and something weird and familiar began to come up as we made awkward small talk...
what was this? attraction? could be. we traded comics that we had done, and talked on the bus a whole bunch...then I invited him to come out with my buds after class one night,...and we began to get more familiar...I liked everything I heard from him. Then one night he forgot to get off the sky train at his stop and I asked him to come over to my house and play guitar with me...since he was headed that way anyway..."Mom, this is my friend, Zane" .
A tremendous amount of flirting went on between us that night, while andria drove us and cHRISTINe around, to do silly little suiburban things.....as we poked eachother and giggled in the back seat, I felt these huge urges to touch him and play with his hair....familiar urges that I knew and I sort of knew he knew... and shortly before we dropped him off at the skytrain, we were holding hands...*awww*...and hugged goodbye...and I finally got his phone number, after talking to him constantly for at least three weeks. Giggle gigglle school girl after he left, "Oh mi god, guys, he HELD MY HAND!!!"
the next night I got a weird urge and called him while I was at a really boring party. we made a date to go shopping at value village together that sunday. I was so nervous my jaw got cramped up. he made me sushi, which was cool,...introduced me to the household cats,...then we sat in his room looking at his stuff...and I wanted to kiss him...so I did..I actually made the first move, which was very odd I though...I leaned in and kissed him....and he kissed back...then excused himself to go brush his teeth.
that day, Zane asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend. he actually ASKED me...."Uh, do you, you..know, um, like, want to have, like, a relationship? um, you know, like boyfriend and girlfriend?"
that was pretty cute. he thought it was retarded.