To Little To Late

I didn't hear from the worm during my stay at home. I visited with family, spent a little time at the local bar catching up with old friends, and he never called. My family threw me an early birthday party, I introduced them all to Louie V, and he never sent me a text message. I left home to drive back to Little Rock feeling happy, content, and loved, and then he called.

I had just started the drive back. I wasn't ten miles from home. He wanted to know where the hell I'd been, and why I never called him. I told him I figured if he wanted to see me, he would have called me. He then went on to tell me how he spent lots of his Thanksgiving break with his ex-fiancé, and how he had his hands a little full with her. He even had Thanksgiving Day lunch with her and her family. Then he ask me what I thought of all of that, what I thought their "deal" was.

I couldn't decide if he wanted me to act jealous, or if he seriously thought I had an opinion on the subject. Well either way I didn't have much to say about it, and I told him I thought it was great they where trying to work things out. Obviously this is not what he was hoping I would say. He ask me to turn around and drive north and spend the night with him. I told him he was crazy for even asking, and that I already had plans in Arkansas when I got back. He said he would drive down to Little Rock that night and spend the night on my couch if I would let him. I told him that was a bad idea. He said he was seriously thinking about coming to see me right then, I told him to stay put.

The conversation was a lot more in depth than that, but it was mostly him bragging on himself and his "many women" in or around my small, southern hometown. I just laughed along with him, knowing that every word he said sealed the deal on why I didn't need to date him.
Everything that tempts me towards him, also pushes me away. He is so cocky, so sure of himself, and I hate and like that about him. I know I don't want to see him or be seen with him, so I am not going to take it to another level. I will talk and e-mail with him occasionally, but that's all it can be. I don't want a worm, and I definitely deserve more.