6.24.2004

03. this is how it starts

I worked with Pam for about six weeks. She and B. lived close to each other, so since I often slept over at B.'s house, we would go to work together. She is the type of person that is always late. I am not being mean to say this, it is just how she is. On our last day when we were supposed to meet with our supervisor for lunch, she was an hour late in meeting me. It takes 45 minutes to an hour to get to Manhattan from where we lived, and she was an hour late when I told her to meet me at 10. She came as 10:50 so we missed the lunch completely.

I did enjoy working with her. We got in a lot of trouble though. We used to rotate shifts at the front desk, but soon it became a problem because we talked a lot. At work when she had nothing to do, she would walk over to my desk and chat. This really pissed off our boss since it was a bad image for the company. Soon after, they switched her to another department permanently, so we did not rotate shifts anymore. She was very upset because she felt that our supervisor now hated her. She still found ways sneak over to chat after that. We both got in a lot of trouble for that.

She met B. the first day he came to pick me up from work. B. has a flirty personality (at least he used to). Many of his friends are females, I have not met most of them because they live out of state, but they like calling him up frequently when they want to bitch about their boyfriends. Beside that, B. is very chatty and he just basically gets along well with most people.

We would all hang out together, sometimes I would invite her over to dinner. After a while, whenever B. and I planned to do something, he would ask me, "Are you going to call Pam to come?". So I called her. After a while, I started getting ticked off because I really wanted some alone time, but Pam always seemed to be around.

Many times, when B. and I were walking back to his apartment, she would follow us in. Neither of us invited her, she just walked in with us, but neither B. nor I were brave enough to tell her to leave because we would be bad hosts.

One afternoon, Pam came over and I was tired so I took a nap on the bed. At that time, B. just got a new bed that he built himself. B. climbed in bed with me, and then he invited Pam to come and see how great the bed was. She said she was tired, and he told her to take a nap on the bed. I was extremely mad, because that was OUR bed. How could he invite another girl to sleep on OUR bed?! I walked out of the room to the bathroom and started running water for a hot shower. B. walked in after me and asked me what was wrong. I asked him why he would invite her into OUR bed. He said he didn't know, he just wanted to sleep between two girls. When he was in college he had a threesome with two lesbians (or some of his girlfriends let him have threesomes) and he said he liked waking up between two women. You cannot believe how thoroughly disgusted I was. Not only did my boyfriend expect that of me, he tried to PUSH it. And I knew he was trying to push it. Sometimes when the three of us were hanging out together he would ask her and I to hold hands as friends do. When we went grocery shopping with her once, he was holding my hand and then he moved my hand onto her shoulder. I hated it, but he kept pushing. I should have showed him how much I hated it, I would mention a few words here and there, and now my biggest regret is always letting things slide when I shouldn't have. I asked him if he liked her emotionally and he said no. I then asked him if he liked her physically and he said nothing. I asked him if he would want to sleep with her, and he sighed and said I don't know.

I was hurt and I was angry. I couldn't believe B. just said that. What kind of boyfriend is he?! I thought. What kind of love is this? Does he even love me?! He told me that night that even though he likes her physically, it doesn't mean he loves her.

Even with that, I still felt hurt and betrayed.

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