blast from the past

three years ago i was an entirely different person. for starters, i was 20 and had no idea what i wanted to do with my life. i was a journalism student and a writer for the school paper. i layed by the pool with my best friend (who got married last month) every friday. i had finally moved off campus and had a car, so my new found freedom was very much taken advantage of. i drank a lot and kissed a lot of boys. ok...so, maybe i haven't changed that much. but, life was different and so was i.

regardless, i was very good friends with a guy we'll call "blast from the past." he and i were inbetweens for each other...which means we hooked up between dating other people. we had long talks over sangria and had a great time together. we remained great friends for about a year, until we both fell in love. his lasted 2.5 years....mine, well, you know how that story is going.

sometime during his great love, he told her about us. she told him to never talk to me again. they got engaged in january and were supposed to get hitched this month. i, of course, was not invited.

she left him last month. moved out. no turning back and no chasing after. done. he IMed me a few weeks after she left. he's coming in town this weekend for a wedding and staying with me. i hadn't talked to him in over a year or hung out with him in more than two. i refuse to be his un-engagement rebound. this should make for an interesting weekend...