Like Nothing Ever Happened

So before everything went down with my interest the last night of kickball, a lot of us decided to do a river floating trip today. After everything went down, I was a little apprehensive about going. I knew my former interest was planning on going on the river float and I wasn't sure if I was up for being around him all day and so soon. But seeing as to how the original float date that was thrown out was next weekend, and I vetoed that because I know I am going to be out of town, we changed it to today. I felt like since I made everyone change the date of it, I should definitely go. Besides, the shock has since worn off and there is NO DOUBT that I am totally over him.

The team corresponded through email about the river trip. During this time I made it very clear that I was going so there would be no surprises to him and he could back out if he wanted. I told everyone on the team we could meet at my apartment since it was the farthest south and along the way. That way we could all carpool and follow each other. He never responded to any of the emails saying he was going, though some of the Virginians did, so I wasn't sure if he was still going or not.

Until I got a call from him trying to find my new apartment. Yes, I was very shocked when I saw his name on my phone (especially when I found out he wasn't driving and the person that was driving I know also has my number). But since he is the only one that has been to our apartment, I guess he was the one nominated to call. But since our date this past week we have moved. He was with the rest of the Virginians and I guess he forgot that I was moving and took them to my old apartment. It ended up "easing the blow" with him calling just before seeing him and having a new apartment for him to meet me at. It made it less awkward to see him since we had just talked on the phone, it wasn't the first time we talked since the weird ending before. And having a new apartment kind-of made it seem like we were starting from a clean slate. This wasn't the place where we had our date, this place was brand new and no old bad memories.

Former interest was very nice at the apartment. He didn't act weird, awkward, quiet, rude, distasteful or anything. He was actually quite normal. Made nice (and funny) comments about the new apartment, none included comparisons to the old. It was better than I could've asked for, given the situation.

So nine of us set off to float the river (thankfully no minister in tow, it being Sunday I don't think he could make it due to other, quite obvious, obligations). After a little bit of a struggle by Emily and I to get our cooler ready for the float, former interest was nice enough to be the one to come to the rescue, interesting.

If you were wondering, the girl that I am pretty sure former interest was, well, interested in the other night did make it on the float. Now I can't be sure of anything, but it did not look like anything was going on between them, at all. I could be completely oblivious to what may be going on behind the scenes. But I really think I am more "on the money" with the feeling I've had from the beginning, that she is not interested. In fact, there was so little going on between them, it looked almost as if he had gotten that message as well. Like I said though, who really knows anything about two other people and what is going on in their private lives?

But we had a great time with the float. We played games, and no, not flip cup! Now that IS shocking, I know. But you can probably imagine how that would never work on the river. Instead we played this celebrity name game. It was really fun, minus the fact that the Virginians had some key celebrity names memorized making it harder for the rest of us. But basically it goes like this:

Someone says the name of a celebrity. The next person (you go around in a circle) has to say a name of another celebrity that starts with the letter that the former celebrity's last name started with. For example: the first person says Britney Spears, then the next could say Sarah Palin, then the next Paul McCartney, etc. But if someone says a celebrity name where their first and last name starts with the same letter (ex. Matthew McConaughey) or it is a one name celebrity (Cher) then it reverses back to the person that just went. Also, you can't use the same celebrity name more than once. Oh, and for the drinking part, if you can't think of anyone, you have to drink until you do. It's pretty fun, try it sometime!

But basically, the Virginians had SEVERAL one name or same first and last letter celebrity names memorized. Since I was between two Virginians, I was caught in a ping-pong kind of rut MANY times!

The river company we floated told us the float was about 3 and 1/2 to 4 hours for the float. After what started feeling like a very long float, we were still very shocked when we got out and found out we had been floating for 6 hours! The wind at several times pushed us back up the river instead of allowing us to go down it like normal. But hey, we weren't complaining about the length of the float. Everyone else was complaining about their sunburns though, except me. They all made fun of me at the beginning with my SPF 50, but by the end they were all trying to put some on. Huh, it's as if I've been burned on the river before and I've finally learned what to do?!?

When we got out, who was the one that helped me get the cooler untied and carried back up the stairs? Yes, former interest to the rescue again. At least he is being very nice. He even went out of his way to help by finding someone with a pocket knife to cut the rope!

The Virginians invited us all to go to dinner at Bennigan's. Since we were starving, even Bennigan's sounded good. So we went, and naturally I lost the whole "where to sit" thing and ended up next to former interest. But really, it is not like sitting next to minister, it is fine sitting next to him. It really feels like that was some bad dream and that nothing EVER happened at all. We all had a nice (well, I mean, it was Bennigan's, so nice might not be the exact right word) dinner filled with lots of laughs.

How much I will see the Virginians again, I have no idea. I doubt they will just call me up to hang out given the circumstances. I really do like hanging out with them but it is understandable if I don't see them anymore. Some of them might join the summer kickball league and there was mention today of going to Schlitterbahn sometime way further down the road. But those are BIG if's and may never pan out to anything. But at least if I do see them again I will not have to worry about having to be around former interest. Like I said, it will be like nothing ever happened. And sadly, that may be what it will be like with all of the Virginians after all is said and done, like nothing ever happened.