Friendzoned

My name is Richard and am not the regular guy you know, I have always been sort of different, that cocky kid who loves to be left alone although some people will say I'm shy, but really am not, I'm not just open to conversations, the best conversations are the once I have in my head, but honestly break down those wall of deception I've build around me and you would see I could be fun after all...
Well enough about me and back to the story...
Ever since I was a boy l, I've always imagined myself surrounded by the most beautiful of girls carefully chosen like they have been ordered specifically from heaven...(I thought I said enough of me?,I can't tell the story if you don't know me, how would you understand?)

...truth is growing up, love has never been be fair to me for it has always eluded me. I've met ladies with whom I could have sworn they where the one for me, but they where taken, I have even prayed and hope the relationship ended sooner so I could take my rightful place but the more I had hoped, the more I saw their relationship soar. But then I met Judith.

Judith, she was beautiful like her body were carved from the finest of brass, her hips made me wonder how her tiny waist held the massive load she carried. If she were the bones of my bone, then it would have been some ribs God took from me, but then she traveled out of the country, for over a year and six months I never heard from her till she called one day and said she was coming home to me soon, but I never did see her again, heard she died two days after she arrived the country.

It's five years now and I'm 28 and I'm still as unlucky as I was years back with love, although I've had my fair share of one night stands, drunk flings but never been lucky to say to my friends "heh jack, meet my girlfriend.. "

That was about to change, I woke up one morning, stared upon my reflection and repeated it to myself. I freshened up, put on some nice threads and pretty smart snickers, I was going out girlfriend hunting... (you probably wondering, Whattttt? Girlfriend Hunting? Don't I work or something? ...It's saturday, and I work at a big engineering firm, but that's not important to the story...so let it go, okay!)
...I was exuding confidence, my breath smelt of menthol, my deodorant felt like they where oozing with love pheromones because the ladies had their eyes on me and today was my lucky day.

I went to the cinema where I know lot of them flock, I bought some popcorn and soda, I found a place to sit just overlooking the entrance, I wasn't here to watch some movie I was here to hit on some of the finest ladies the world had to offer. I sat there for over 2hours watching ladies of all shapes and sizes troop in, some with their lovers others with their kids or a young sibling or amongst friends. I was just about giving up when luck smiled on me.

There she was, fair as the morning, perfect at all bends and corners. I swore I could have seen her eyes glistening like gold upon her black shades of glasses, noticed she was alone and quickly went to introduce myself. (Bless the confidence that went with me, It was nothing I've ever seen, she wouldn't have said No even if she wanted to if I had asked her to be my girlfriend right there)

"Hello Gorgeous"
"Hi" her voice sounded like the larynx from where it came where lined with gold, for they sounded like jingles from an Angels wing.
"I was sitting over there, when I saw you come in, and gazing upon these movie posters confused"
"(She giggles)... was i that obvious?"
"Hum, I don't think so, I doubt people will notice, but not me have got a thing of reading faces and facial expressions..."
"Oh really?"
"...I'm Richard by the way, and yes I can see from your face you wondering who this weirdo is? And if he's trying to hit on you"
"You funny (She laughs), am Lucy and no am not thinking that"
"Well then Lucy, I shall be thy guide for the evening, what you looking to watch?" I asked rhetorically
"Shall I recommend some romance to colour the evening?..."
"...How about some action, or an adventure or a animation?"
"I think I would go for some action" she said laughing
"Alright then, come on Lucy I know just the one for you"

That was it, like my lucky star just struck, from the movies that day we hit things off, we had lunch and then dinner two times that new week.
In a span of two weeks I knew a lot about her like the schools she went, where she works, where she does her hair, fixes her nails, her ex, (she was single...did I mention that?), her first, how she stutters when she lies, sweat on her palms and her forehead when she's tensed. Getting to know her was pretty much some of the fun moments I have had. Then I invited her home one Saturday.

I felt it was the right moment to ask her to be my girlfriend, I had actually started picturing a lifetime with her, she was the Yin to my Yang.
I'd ordered pizzas, even made tomatoes sauce garnished with beef, fish, carrot and eggs and spaghetti. And around 4:33pm there was a knock on my door, there she was wearing a red silk gown. Her fair skin glowed from the shades of sunlight that find its way into my apartment.
"Come on in" I said as I gasped at her incredible beauty.

We talked a little, joked more about my cooking (not that I was an horrible cook, I was really quite good), had dinner and wine. We went on to watch movie and pizza.
I was so staring intensely at her as she concentrated on the movie, she looked back at me and smiled "you not watching the movie".
There was fluttering in my stomach, a cruel longing and shallow breathing, it happens whenever she looks at me and it only heightens it when she smiles. "I've watched it countless times, and when there's this gorgeous angel sitting close to me, how do I focus?"
She kissed me gently, I don't know if it was the wine at work or the movie but it was perfect. She kissed me again this time more passionately as I lost myself to her. We made passionate love on the couch, then I carried her to the room and we continued into the midnight before she finally fell asleep in my arms.

This was the confirmation I needed, I felt all would be alright, she was into me, I had found love again, thoughts were pacing through my head, I would look at her sleeping beside me, smile and more beautiful thoughts will follow, I was going to ask her. I couldn't sleep that night I was up before 6am, went to the kitchen made some coffee, by the time I got to the room she was up scuttling round the room.
"My clothes where did I keep them?" she said with some bitterness in her voice
"They over there in the wardrobe"
"Lemme have them please"
"Is anything wrong?...I got you coffee"
"This is wrong Richard, I don't know what came over me, this wasn't suppose to happen..." I handed her clothes as she hurriedly put them on
"...you a really good guy, one of the the kindest man I have ever met, but this was not suppose to happen, I had too many wine..."
"...i mean I like you, but not to be intimate as this, I practically look at you as a big brother, you are my best friend, you are one of few guys I could probably be myself around without expecting to judge me and I know you will understand, I don't want to spoil that, I don't want to loose that, I'm sorry Richard I need to go, I need to process this, I didn't mean for it to turn out like these.."
I just stood quietly trying to process things myself, was wondering if there was something I did wrong
".. I will call you later Richard"
"I'm really sorry, I've to go now"
(Door Closes).