I had been dating The Bassist for the better part of the spring and summer. I met him through one of his band mates at one of their shows. We hit it off right away. Our first date was just a couple of days after we had met. In fact, just five minutes into our first date he asked me if I would go on a second date with him the very next night!
Luckily we had a great time that first night, and I was excited to see him the next day. He had great tickets to a baseball game.
We spent the rest of the summer exploring New York City together. Each date we would meet in Grand Central and pick a new and different neighborhood to go have dinner in. One night we were down in the West Village at a hole in the wall Italian restaurant and the next we were on the Upper East Side at a fancy, fine dining restaurant.
One night I was driving to his apartment because we were supposed to go to a concert. I was about 10 minutes away from him when I got into a car accident. This guy had pulled out of his street and pulled right into me. The entire passenger side of my car was damaged. I called the police, called my mom, then I called The Bassist. The Bassist offered to come to where I was to wait with me for the cops and to make sure nothing happened to me. He got in a cab and came right there. It took nearly two hours for the cops to arrive.
While we were waiting for the cops we were both sitting on the hood of my car. That’s when he dropped the bomb.
He told me that he didn’t want to continue dating me and that he was still in love with his ex-girlfriend. He had recently begun talking to her again and wanted to see if things would work out.
He couldn’t have waited? I was in the midst of a minor-panic attack, my car was totaled and he had to choose then to break up with me? He was so laid back and casual, you would have thought he was telling me that he wasn’t in the mood for Chinese food that night.
Several years later he told me that he didn’t think he was that much of a jerk to me because we hadn’t slept together. If we had slept together it would have been much worse.
Jerk.