How I Met My New Love

My first night as a single girl I went out with my friend Katie to Gov’s Park. She introduced me to some of her friends and one of them was this guy named Korkie. He was flirting with me pretty heavily but I thought he was a jerk and told him so. He had a buddy with him, Brian, and while I thought he was cute, I really didn’t think much of it. We all ended up going to another bar and partying together all night – lots of innocent, drunken fun. The next Monday, Korkie contacted Katie and was trying to get my number. She wouldn’t give it to him so he went thru a co-worker/friend, Schmaltz, instead and eventually got my email address. He ended up asking me to go with him as his “date” on a double date with his buddy Brian and the girl Brian was dating. I finally agreed to go and I’m glad I did as it was one of the best dates I had ever been on. We went to Rioja in LoDo…I ended up sitting next to Brian and we sat across the table from our dates. I thought that was really weird but in hindsight I’m really glad it happened as we got to know each other better that way. From there we went to a Cirque du Soleil show called Corteo. After that it was on to more drinking in various bars around downtown. At the end of the night we were all still partying and didn’t know what else to do so we ended up back at Korkie’s place, in his hot tub. None of us had suits, so use your imagination on what happened…well the gf ended up getting jealous because she thought Brian was checking me out, blahblahblah. Korkie told me all of this later on…(and things obviously didn’t go anywhere between me and him). Then some time around September, Korkie and Brian had a party that me and Katie were invited to. This was after I went on Wheel of Fortune and Brian had starting asking me questions about it. I invited him to my WoF party and we exchanged numbers that night. He was still dating the other girl so I wasn’t aggressive, though we emailed back and forth via myspace for a couple weeks. Then came my party…he showed up and I was really happy to see him (though I had 3 other boytoys at that party!!) About a week later Katie, Kahlan and I went to Beerfest and ended up separating from each other by the end of the night. I headed back towards the Convention Center to catch the lightrail…and then I got a text message from him. All it said was “Wheel of Fortune”…I texted him back that he was cute…he asked me what I was doing…I told him I was waiting for my train…he asked if I was with friends or alone…I was alone so he came and picked me up. We went back to his place and made out, then I had to leave around 3am to pick up my sister at Union Station and head home as my mom, niece and other sister were staying with me that weekend. So that’s pretty much what started it…and by the way, he and the other chick had broken it off weeks before any of this happened so I was cleared for take off, lol!!