You Shook Me All Night Long: A Love Story - 5

Chapter 1 - I'm Not Wearing Any Pants! Or, Drinking and Dressing
Chapter 2 - Where's Luppy?
Chapter 3 - Charming
Chapter 4 - Snow Angeling

Chapter 5 - AC/DC is Romantic in the AM

Wow. I really just slept-yelled? passed out talked? nope... Luppy and I quickly coined the term, "snow angeled." I just snow angeled so hard. As if I haven't done enough to scare this guy away, now I'm snow angeling. Awesome.

Thankfully, miraculously, Luppy didn't completely shun me after my snow angel episode. He laughed at me, that's for sure, but somehow he wasn't repulsed. Yet.
Wow.

The shock and embarrassment of snow angeling was enough to wake me up completely. That, and the fact that the sun was coming up.

I think around 7:30 a.m. or so Luppy got a text from his Dad asking if he was up. I took Luppy's phone and quickly replied, "I love you Dad" while Luppy was up getting a glass of water. He didn't believe me that I had actually sent it until he checked his outbox. I thought it was a really sweet gesture on my part.

After the text, Luppy explained that he was supposed to have an early breakfast with his family.
Because he was flying home.
To D.C.
Today.

Ouch.

I'm not going to lie, hearing that hurt quite a bit. I mean, I knew all along he lived in D.C., but... I don't know, I guess I ignored the reality or hoped we could hang out over the weekend at least.

Erin, of course, was the first of the group to wake up. And, of course, she promptly got to work making breakfast. She's kinda an amazing friend, btw.

I went to the kitchen to scavenge for food and found Clementines! Yum! One of my favorite treats of winter. I feel in love with them while living in Spain. They were amazing there - the peel was completely separate from the flesh and oh wow, tasty.

I took some Clementines in to Luppy and fed him while Erin cooked away. Seriously, I'm pretty sure he didn't want any Clems, but I peeled them and more or less force fed him.

Soon the scrambled eggs were done. But there was a problem. I only own four forks. Three of them were dirty. No worries, I explained to Erin, I have chopsticks!

I grabbed some sticks and sat down on the floor. And something funny happened. In the kitchen with Erin I had no problems eating with the chopsticks. In the living room with Luppy I couldn't even stab a chunk of egg. It was pathetic. He took the sticks from me and, as I held the plate of eggs, he fed me.

It was ridiculous and strange and sweet and awesome.

Erin sat on the couch watching this little spectacle of breakfast unfold in front of her.

After another hour or so of talking, laughing, and a smooch here or there, Luppy finally explained that he really needed to go because not only was he leaving today and had already missed breakfast with his family, he was leaving in just a few hours.

Like, less than three hours.

Ok, that one really hurt.

Luppy and I walked into the kitchen together so he could go out back to his car. My heart was racing. This is so not fair! I date all these losers here, but finally, in one single night, find this incredible man who is so funny and smart and sweet and somehow isn't totally freaked out by all the strange and embarrassing things that I've done in the past 9 hours and now he's leaving? Does he even like me? Will he ever want to talk to me again? Was this just some random nothingness to him? Is he going to ask for my phone number? Do I ask for his? What if he doesn't want to talk to me? This is horrible.

In the middle of all of that, Luppy leaned down to kiss me goodbye. And right then Erin walked in with dirty dishes! Damnit Erin and your cleanliness! I pull away from him and stand there, staring and wondering.

He can't procrastinate any longer, at this point in time, he isn't even going to be able to shower before his flight (my apologies passengers). Luppy turns, and grabs onto the door handle, pulls open the door and starts down the stairs and out of my life.

I panic.
I have to do something! I have to do something! I step out on the top of the steps.

"Yeah YOU! Shook me allllll night long! Yeah-eh baby YOU! Shook me allllllll night long!"

Luppy, now halfway down the stairs, stops and turns around. He looks up at me.
We were thinking the exact same thing.
What in the hell is she doing?!?!? Is she really singing AC/DC? WHY? No one was shook at all, let alone all night long... And why is she still singing it? And does she really only know that one line?

"Yeah YOU! Shook me allllll night long! Yeah-eh baby YOU! Shook me allllllll night long!"

Luppy turns and walks out the door.
I stop singing, step back inside my apartment, and shut the door.

Ohmygod.


My own jaw drops.

I'm quickly slapped in the face by the reality of what I just did.
There is something terribly wrong with me...


I finally, after almost 12 hours of trying, have succeeded at ruining any chances I had with the most incredible man I've ever met.

ohmygod...

--Keep Reading - Chapter 6--