I thought I'd come on and tell how things have been going with my current girl problem (my last post about it was here: [url]http://www.loveforum.net/showthread.php?t=2340[/url])
I know I don't contribute much to the forum (sorry ), but I kinda need to vent some stuff that's been building up for weeks.
Well, her birthday came up and I gave her a call on her cell phone. She answered, and I was surprised to hear her voice since I tried to call her a week earlier (when her actual party was going on) and just got a voicemail instead. She sounded excited to hear from me. I told her "happy birthday" and she said thanks (in a sweet tone that showed she appreciated me doing so). Unfortunately, her cell phone was dying, so an actual conversation was hard to do. She kept fading out. I asked if I should call her home phone, but her sister was using it, so she said she'd call me back later in the day.
I never got the call. I watied the whole damn day and got really excited everytime the phone rang, only to be sorely dissapointed when I picked it up and found it was my dad calling, or some stranger dialing a wrong number. I called her cell phone back the next day and it was dead: the voicemail was not up. I tried later in the day and the voicemail had begun working, so I left her a message asking why she didn't call (not in an accusing tone) and asked for her to call me some time. I also said that I didn't want to pester her so I wouldn't be repeadedly trying to call her.
I wondered why she never called back. I figured if she said she was going to, she would; that's the way she is. Perhaps she's trying to avoid me, or maybe she just lost my number. I don't know. One thing that caught my attention when I was talking with her is that she used my first name. See, we are usually in a military environment (didn't mention that before) and typically we refer to each other by our last names. Occasionally, she would sometimes use my first name, but mostly she used my last name, as I did her. When we talked on the phone, she twice used my first name, wich I definitely noticed. I took it as a sign that she was maybe feeling closer to me, but when she didn't call back, that kind of dashed my hopes a bit.
It's been about two weeks now. I sent her birthday gift a couple of days ago (it finally shipped!) and she should recieve it today or tommorow. I'm hoping that she'll call me and thank me, or at least send me a thank you card or something. I don't want to get my hopes up, but I can't help it. I wish I knew for certain if things are going to happen between us but everything seems to be just hidden in a big cloud that I can't see through.
The thing that really sucks is that if I do get with her, there is another girl that I promised I'd go to the college ball with. When this girl asked me, my interest was still with her boyfriend. Not one to turn down a good thing, I said "yes." I mean, I'm single, my love interest was dating a guy, I might as well meet other people, right? But now my love interest is more available, and she's the one I want. If I end up with her, I'll tell her right off the bat that I promised to take another girl to the ball, and I'm sure she'll understand. I'm not too interested in dating the other girl. I don't dislike her at all, but I'm too obsessed with my current interest to want to date this other girl. I think she might like me, but I don't know. I'll just go to the ball and see how things go, which will depend on whether I'm together with my interest by then (or if there is still a possibility of that).