They say you were something in those formative years

Robin likes her eighth grade boyfriend. Again.

I’m not really sure what happened, but Robin and her ex-pseudo-boyfriend met again last Thursday while his band was playing at a local coffee house. I say pseudo because they dated for about a week in eighth grade, and we all know that doesn’t really mean anything. They hung out (and made out) together all weekend, including during his birthday celebration.

Funny, because he was also my pseudo boyfriend in ninth grade. Pat Mitchell is his name. Always a super nice guy, but just could never hold on to the chicks long enough. We “went out” for a twenty-four hour period where we did not see or talk to each other until I called him and said “look, this isn’t going to happen…” He had bought me flowers because the next day was Valentine’s Day. He told me this past weekend that he gave the flowers to his mom.

Anyway, so Robin and I always joked about how we both kind of went out with this guy like a million years ago. Well, this weekend was his 21st birthday and he invited Robin to his party type thing at this Irish restaurant near DC. Robin called me and said that she liked Pat Mitchell again, and I invited myself to his birthday party because I wasn’t about to let Robin ditch me on a Friday night. No way.

His birthday thing, which I thought was just going to be a bunch of kids hanging out at a bar, was actually a dinner thing that included like twenty-five people and Pat’s family. I hadn’t seen Pat in six years, so I felt like a complete asshole showing up to his intimate birthday gathering. But, oddly enough, it was a great time. And his dad picked up the entire tab. Classy.

I mean, I cannot tell you how much fun it was to hang out with Pat Mitchell, he’s still as nice as ever and a really cool guy. And he told me he is totally “smitten” with Robin. How cute!

It’s weird how people you’ve brushed off for years can suddenly come back into your life. It’s like it’s fate or destiny and then that “everything happens for a reason” mentality suddenly doesn’t seem that far fetched.