When it comes of affairs of the mind and heart, I couldn’t help but wonder which one was stronger the like between me and you or the love between you and her? It seems if you love someone you share everything, are connected, and when you like someone your just awakening these feelings, but what happens when love between me and you, forces you to cheat? Did the man that gave me the best of the best in bed really like me? And if he didn’t why did I stay? Was I just addicted to the pain, the ultimate pain of being with someone who only ever wanted to be alone; I was having a sort of affair. The man I was “seeing” has a girlfriend, they’ve been together for three years, and now he was cheating on her with me.
It was bad. Every part of me was screaming to kill him, and tell her. But I couldn’t, I swore the first time it happened between us would be the last time, but when the opportunity presented itself, I seized it.
He was aware that I liked him the year before, and so did his girlfriend; which, is why me and him hardly ever talk to each other. I was surprised that when I came back from the city we began talking, nothing serious just casual. We shared mutual friends so when I’d see him around I’d listen to one of his b.s. stories.
Okay, so the first time it happened, we were in my friends trailer which he claims is his “home”. And there was no one else around, he raped his arm around me and before I knew it we were kissing, we were both drinking, touching, and he wanted to have sex, but I told him no because we had no condom. For that reason we began doing everything else, I gave him head, a hand job, we made out, etc.
The next day I woke up feeling better than I had in months. He created a new line to what I identified as amazing sex. So after three weeks of un-returned messages, and no interest in starting conversation with me at parties, I started to write of our one night as an act of idiocy, and came to terms with the fact that it probably wouldn’t happen again…well it did.
Last week after my best friend, his sisters boyfriend and mr. cheater went to bed, I was still wide awake. So I silently made my way over to Ben (not real name)’s bed trying not to awake my best friend. I taped on his back and his first response was “what?” in a winy voice due to the fact he’d already been a sleep for a while, I just touched him and said, “come on”, in the sexiest voice that was a available to me after a night of drinking, and no rest. Then my best friend woke up and him and Ben had a conversation while they were both sleeping, I touched Ben again, and he realized I was the one trying to get his attention.
He didn’t want to do anything at first, so he rolled on his side away from me. I was mega horny so I started to bite his neck, he just said, “stop your making me hard” I laughed and continued, before I knew it we were together, the last time had been me, and him super drunk but this time, it was just me , he had maybe a half a beer. After we did it together, I knew I really liked him. So much so that I swallowed when he came, sure I was drunk and a bit surprised but I knew it was coming. When we laid down on our backs next to each other, he asked me the time, and I had no idea what it was, we found his phone and discovered it was four am.
I guess it made me his secret sex thing but it was awful because he treated me like shit, when I wanted to keep going he said no because he loved her. I decided to interrogate him while I was in my “Cosmopolitan Haze”. I told him I liked him and he said he knew, I asked him why he was with her and he said because she’s amazing, and kind. I asked him if he wanted the life that she was offering which included kids, and marriage and he said yes. It was all to much and there was nothing I could do.
Finally I got a bit upset and I said to him, “then tell me to my face, to my face, you don’t like me, just say it, I need to here you say it… I can’t keep doing this to myself” I was almost in tears, terrified that I was putting myself on the limn, and he said to me, “I like you too, but I love her” that became the very first time I wanted to say I hate you. Instead I walked back to my bed, and fell asleep, I woke up at eight am the next day, and practically ran out the idea of waking up and running into Ben would be to emotionally wrong for me to handle, so I left. But that last sentence he said to me: I like you too, but I lover her, made me wonder if he was telling me the truth.
If you look at it what did he have with her? Well she offered him, a home, money, kids, and his parents loved her. Even if his relationship with her wasn’t full of passion at least he had companionship. If he went with me what did I have to offer, his friends would probably think, “what the fuck” because there’s a five year difference, his family probably wouldn’t like me very much because I’m still a teenager. I don’t want kids, or marriage unlike Kat (his girlfriend), I’m not domestic in any way, I can’t quilt, or bake. The good things that he would get being with me would be love, love that we both share similar interests, love that would be all consuming, wild sex, and intimacy.
I wondered what was stronger. I knew somewhere inside him he felt it. Felt something toward me, maybe i would only be his sex thing, maybe it would just be these two times, but it was to cloudy for me to see clearly.
I desperately needed something to pull me out of this, the sex justified everything our relationship wasn’t, and everything that it was. I couldn’t understand why he would stay with her. When I confessed to my friend that it happened again she was tempted to tell Kat, and she judged me a little for it, but she was right. Now I was the one to blame I felt lower than the low, and the guilt worked on me like an aphrodisiac.
What was I to him? There were no words to describe what it was I was doing. Yet every time I’d stop and think I’d think back to the night. What he said, the way he looked, everything around me became a subject evaluate. And the only thing that scared me more was the fact that I wanted it to happen again, but I dare not tell any of my friends.
My friend brought up another very important fact, I may have thought about me in this situation, like what would happen to me if she found out, but I never stopped to think what would happen to her if she found out. Ben didn’t care sure he loved her and all but if you really love someone wouldn’t you be more careful? I knew if she was to find out, she’d break up with him, and their relationship would be non-existent but I didn’t want to put her through that pain. I just wanted Ben to break up with her, and never tell her he cheated but rather tell her they just fell apart and no amount of love could fix it.
So maybe I have no idea how he feels about me, maybe I’ll never know, but I knew what I felt inside was to scary, and too real. I’d have to pull myself out of the mess, before I end up hurt.