Sorry I haven't introduced myself, I tried posting an introductive thread earlier and my computer froze up. -kicks computer-
So, let me just tell you about this guy right quick. Boxer [I have nicknamed him], is quite the ladies man. He can flirt with any girl, and he thinks of sex quite often. But once I got to know him well, I found out he is truely a nice guy. He is really caring, and he sees me for who I am. I admire him because he thinks I'm amazing because of my "unique personality" [a quote from a few nights ago by Boxer], and he talks to me as if I am the only girl with him. But, I could almost say he has three personalities. One is quite [playfully] flirtatious, and desires making out/sex. The other is the perfect boyfriend, he tries to impress you and flirts a bit. The other is the jokester, Boxer acts like this around his friends most of the time.
Well, just the other day at diving practice I had tried a reverse and busted on my back because I didn't go back far enough. I got out of the pool and walked over to the table to grab my towel. Boxer came over and looked at my back, "that must have hurt." I was frustrated because I knew I wouldn't be able to do this dive. I didn't say anything to him and I dried off with my towel and threw it back on the table. I walked back over to the diving board where Lobster [the other diver] was preparing to take his dive. Boxer walked back over to me and wrapped his arm around me. "You can do it, don't let this stop you." I just looked up at him, and I guess I had a doubtful look because of what he said after that. He then picked me up, cradling me in his arms. "It's just like that, but you just have to pull your knees up." I had laughed as he did, and he put me back down. Boxer walked back over to the table and grabbed his shirt. He handed it to me and said "wear this, if you smack again it won't hurt as bad. But I know you won't smack again, you're going to get it this time." I put it on, and it swallowed me whole. Lobster had gotten out of the pool and Boxer took his dive. So I was next, and truthfully, reverses scare me. I refer to them as "The big beastly reverse", that shall proove to you how much I hate them.
I stepped up on the board and Boxer got out of the pool. "You can do it Rae, just don't think about it." Boxer cheered me on. I took the dive, but smacked on my shoulders. It didn't hurt as bad though because of the shirt. I was getting frustrated, and I knew I was loosing confidence. So I got out of the pool and walked back over to where Boxer stood. I was absolutely frustrated, and was close to crying. I had been trying to get this dive down for nearly four straight practices. Boxer wrapped his arm around me and pulled me close. "It's okay, you will get it." What he said made me feel better, and I started wringing out the water from his shirt that I was wearing. Lobster took his dive, and our coach started talking to him.
Boxer stepped up on the diving board, and while our coach was talking to Lobster he turned around and watched me as I continued wringing out his shirt. I looked up, and he spoke. "You look cute in that." I felt my cheeks turn slightly red, and I chuckled slightly. "But you look cute in anything Rae." He spoke again, and I had to look down, I felt my cheeks burning and I didn't know what to say. [Here comes the shocker, and this is where his personality changes.] "You'd look even better in it with nothing on under it." I looked up, and he had a small smile curving his lips. I was completely shocked. I had never really had a guy say anything like that to me before. So, a few dives later [Boxer still flirted around with me] I was back up on the diving board, and I had yet to complete the reverse. I had smacked on each attempt. So when I was getting up on the board Boxer and Lobster cheered me on. I stopped again on my approach, and Boxer said, "Come on Rae, you can do it." I looked at him and said "I can't do it." Boxer and Lobster shook their heads, Lobster cheered me on and Boxer said "Sure you can! Just try." But I had been trying, and I was beginning to think that maybe I couldn't do this dive.
"But I've been trying and all I do is bust, what good do I get out of trying?" Boxer smiled, "I'll see what I can do." So I turned back to the board and tried, but again I busted. Coach told us to take one free dive and we were done. So Tyler got up on the board. I walked over to Boxer and he put his arm around me. "You'll get it next time Rae, but atleast you tried." So, we all took our last dive and we went to the locker rooms to change. When I got out there my Mom was out there waiting on me. I had to go to one of her friends house, and as I was leaving Boxer came out of the locker room. He asked if I was leaving and I told him I had to go with my Mom to one of her friends' house. So he followed us out to the parking lot. Our coach called for him, so he had to go see what she wanted. So we left, and I wasn't given the chance to ask him if he really meant what he said earlier to me.
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Another Time. . . .
This was a few days before the diving practice, and we had just had a home swim meet. Freshmen have to stay after and clean up, and I was stuck with cleaning up the girls locker room. I came out and threw the trashbag into the stack of trash. Boxer came out of the boys locker room with his swimsuit in his hand. He laughed at me as I took off the gloves, and so I put them in his face. "I've been picking up tampon wrappers and stuff with them." He stuck out his tongue and I jerked away the gloves. He then put his swimsuit in my face. "Ewww!!! Gross your butt has been in it!" I jerked them away from him and he had a sly smirk on his face. "What?" I asked, he chuckled and whispered. "You didn't say anything about my [can I say penis on this site?] being on it, so I guess your okay about touching that." I threw his swimsuit at him, and I didn't know what else to say.
***After that a few of the swimmers went to a resturant with a buffet. I was getting some food and I spotted something nasty, I pointed to it and said "You know ou want that." He looked at it and shook his head. "Nah, I want you." He placed his hand on my back for a brief moment and walked back to the table. I didn't know how to take what he said, I didn't know if he meant it, or if he was just joking around.
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So, how should I react to this? I really like them, but I'm not sure how I should show him I am interested in him. Any advice on how I could flirt back but not be too obvious? I want him to see that I am interested in him, but I don't want to flirt too much. So, any advise is welcome, and any opinions are welcome!
Thanks bunches!!
Rae-ful the Graceful.