We went back to the gym two days later with the same plan and no expectation of trouble. The soldier was going to work out with some weights and then swim. I still had reduced energy and we still were going to stay about an hour but had no set time. The soldier told me he’d stop by my cross trainer on his way to the pool so we’d have an idea who was where so we could finish up at roughly the same time same as prior. Once in the gym we took off in opposite direction and again we didn’t touch each other.

I don’t think the soldier and I would be mistaken as brother and sister but he could definitely be a cousin and if I were in the gym guessing, this would be my guess. I would assume he was some kind of visiting family simply because I have gone to this gym for 10 years and never ever with a man but anyway, the first problem was Coffee Date, remember him? I explored the idea of dating him after I broke up with the AMF. I was pretty distraught at the time and told him so but he said we could just go for coffee so we did.

We went for coffee a couple times and I was quite interested in him right up until he started playing some kind of coy game with me. Er…wrong card, buddy. So I pulled out of that but he still talks to me on occasion. He comes by to take my temperature you could say and I was hoping today would not be one of those days. I was hoping this because the soldier would see the interaction for sure and let’s just think about who Coffee Date is.

First he’s Puerto Rican which means he is not blond and I can tell you right now this makes a difference when it comes to the soldier and I. For example if a blond woman is talking to him I will definitely feel they hair on my neck stand up but if she is darker?

Well if she looks anything even remotely like me the hair on my head will stand along with the hair on my neck, my face will get hot, my ears will burn and I will want a machete! ::smiles::

Now “want”, is not “do” so everyone calm down. I am just telling you what it feels like when someone’s chart hits your chart and your chart is like mine. And I’m not talking logic obviously. What is logical about the lizard brain, hmm?

So anyway, Coffee Date is Puerto Rican and further he’s a Pisces rising like the soldier. So he has this slippery presence, yes? And when he talks to you he surrounds you and he’s not fast as you can imagine. He doesn’t go by. Coffee Date stands near and merges.

Further since they are both Pisces rising, my chart hits Coffee Date’s chart the same way it hits the soldier’s so are you getting the picture here? It’ was nerve-wracking.

What will the soldier feel if he witnesses this? I literally had no idea outside of the hair on his neck thing would be a given, so please Coffee Date. Please swim elsewhere today I asked silently knowing how sensitive he is.

I realized the soldier and I needed a chance to announce the situation. What we needed was some kind of a grace period because 10 years is a long time to show up at a gym man-less and when I do - Well the soldier is not some kind of generic, innocuous, cardboard cu- out man, is he?

Damn P has a flair for drama.

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