Things going OK with tinder girl except one thing, she's pretty jealous of one of my female friends. She does have a pretty good reason to, though. Well, to begin with.
So, last Friday was my birthday and I had a load of friends come over. Tinder girl (TG) was there from the start since she spent the previous night with me and got introduced to people. This was the first time she was meeting all my friends bar 1, and about 18 people turned up so she was pretty nervous about meeting this many people so got a bit drunk. Rough timeline:
5ish: Start drinking. I start slow, so beer, since I'm cooking for everyone. (TG) goes straight onto vodka.
7ish: Most people here now, including (C) and (L), who had a bit of a relationship problem a couple of weeks ago which I fixed with my advice. I'm was close with these two before all that happened, but now very much so.
9ish: I get off the phone with my sister who is currently in America, (TG) walks in on me finishing the conversation by saying we should skype soon, she assumes I'm talking to my ex from Tiawan based on this information alone. I quickly set her straight.
10ish When one of my mates (R) finished work his girlfriend (E), who was with me already, mentioned to him by phone that she reckoned I wasn't drunk enough so even though I was now drinking rum he arrived with a bottle of jager for us to share and a bottle of prosecco as well. By this point (TG) has slowed down on drinking so staying level, but still pretty drunk. From this point on I get very drunk, very quickly since I'm mixing the two of them, drinking shots of jager straight from the bottle and still finishing my rum.
11ish: (C) has to leave since he has work the next morning.
I don't remember much after this point, almost everything from here I've been told by people.
12ish: People who were on the evening shift at work arrive, including someone who I've only known a few days (Z) (this wasn't an issue, I was happy for her to come).
12ish: (L) and I are in the kitchen when (Z) arrives, and my arm is around her and we're talking along as we do. This is nothing out of the ordinary for us. (TG) gets introduced to (Z) by (E) as the girl I'm with and (Z) wont believe this and is very insistent that (L) and I are a couple even after (E) repeatedly tries to explain otherwise. (Z) apparently also said that (L) and I are a "cute couple" in front of (TG) during this.
1ish: (L) and I apparently keep going upstairs to talk quite a lot over the previous 2 hours. It's likely this is because we were talking about the problems she and (C) were having since no one else really knows about it so needed somewhere private, I remember doing this with both (L) and (C) a few times that night earlier so would make sense. (The problem basically being that (L) cheated on (C) partly due to them seeing the relationship as different things. (TG) knows about this since I needed someone to sound off against when I was giving (L) advice a few weeks ago and didn't think she would actually meet my friends at the time.)
1:30ish: we all get taxis in the city. I apparently almost forget about (TG) and get into the taxi that happens to have (L) in and (TG) gets a different one. I have also given (L) a jumper of mine to take out with her since she forgot hers.
2ish: (L) gets thrown out of a bar for being too drunk so I go to make sure she's OK. This is quite a common occurrence so I'm used to looking after her like this. She gets a taxi home with another friend and (TG) starts accusing me of wanting to be with (L) while we're in the street. At this point I don't know what happened with (Z) in the kitchen so I assume this is a follow up of her thinking I'm talking to my ex on the phone so get quite mad that she would make this leap in her head when I'm looking after a friend. She tries to call my bluff and tell me she's going, I let her.
2:15ish: As I'm walking home (E) calls me, I tell her what happened, by this point I'm already regretting it. She convinces me to come back, she calls (TG) and somehow makes it all better with her.
After enjoying another hour or so with friends (TG) and I eventually walk back to mine and when we get there I pass out on my bed and she actually tidies my house at 4 in the morning, filling two bin bags in the process.
We talk briefly the next day and I find out about what (Z) said, and we both agree we over reacted due to the alcohol.
(TG) Has been at mine since Monday since we both have the week off work and things have been very good. Basically just strawberry floating, napping and eating. Clothes only worn when we need to go outside really. But occasionally she'll make a "joke" about me and (L) which makes it painfully clear how she feels about mine and (L)'s friendship.
Tonight we should be meeting up with (E), who (TG) seems to get on with really well, so will be a good time to see what she thinks about the whole thing since I've only spoken to her (E) over Facebook over the last week.
But tomorrow I'm going to (L)'s brothers wedding for the evening do, with (C) being there all day. I'll be there as (L)'s friend, I don't know the bride or groom at all. (TG) hasn't said much about this, except keeps 'jokingly' reminding me to not strawberry floating anyone there, since I'll be spending the night in a hotel as well as a few other guests.
She also keeps telling me she's "smitten" with me. She keeps trying to get me to say the same back. In my mind "smitten" means love, I don't think it means that in her head but I can tell her feelings are growing.
But I like the time we spend together. Yesterday, for example, we strawberry floated for about 6 hours, got really drunk on wine, she made me spaghetti Bolognese, watched Superbad and we ended up playing the first couple of levels of Halo Anniversary on co-op.