Remembered another, took place maybe a couple of years after my previous one. It's another example of alcohol leading to me being creepy. Reading it back, this has to be my longest GAF post ever by far. Most of this is just to provide context to my awful creepiness, to try to explain how/why it happened. Plus an epilogue.
My best friend had a girlfriend. Naturally, it didn't take me long to fall in love with her. I had my own girlfriend at the time, but I didn't like her much... the more we got to know each other, the more I realized she was a real racist (she had just moved to CA from KY =P) and it got to the point where I dreaded being with her. Soon after this all began I dumped her. Anyway, my friend and his girlfriend and I all hung together very often and she and I instantly became good friends. After about a year, they broke up. I made the conscious decision that I would remain friends with both of them. Of course it caused some static between he and I. Not too bad though... he got over it pretty quickly. She and I were really close. I slept over at her place about every other weekend. Usually on the couch, but there were a couple of times where we somehow ended up sleeping in the same bed. But nothing ever happened. We'd go to a gig, we'd go to a party, we'd go play pool, we'd get drunk, we'd crash.
I tried to be good and had no intention of trying anything with her whatsoever. To my credit, I was able to make that last for several months. There aren't many things in this world that are worse than unrequited love, and occasionally she would do things that made me wonder. My overriding thought was "The way I feel about her, I'll regret it for the rest of my life if I don't at least tell her and find out how she feels." So I gathered my courage and told her. Aaaaaand of course she didn't feel the same way. Friend-zone'd. Whoops, awkward. We avoided each other for a while after that. At least a few weeks. But we quickly gravitated back and resumed our friendship as if nothing had happened.
Fast forward maybe another two years. I suppose I was still in love with her, my feelings had gone undigested, but I didn't dwell on it. One night she and I were at a huge party at a mutual friend's house. At some point I was out in the backyard talking to some people. Suddenly I heard her calling me from the kitchen window:
"Hey, come here."
"What?"
"Come here."
I walked over. "OK. What?"
"Come here, closer."
I went right up to the window. "What, what???"
She leaned out and grabbed me and gave me a really long passionate kiss. Then she stared at me with a little smile for second, turned around, and went back into the house. I just stood there for a bit, very happily bemused.
A few minutes later I went back into the house, and we kept looking at each other from across the room. After a while she came over to me said "We're almost out of beer." We walked to a nearby liquor store, and she was being way more affectionate and flirty than she'd ever been before. She kept jumping into my arms, insisting that I carry her, give her piggy back rides, etc. Laughing and having fun.
Later on back at the party, the real kicker came. She came over to me and said "Jennifer [her roommate] wants to go home. She wants me to go. I don't want to. I want to stay here. And I want you to take me home later."
Words cannot describe how I felt at that moment. You had to be there, see the look in her eye, hear the sound of her voice as she said this. I did not have the presence of mind to dismiss her behavior as "Eh, she's just drunk. Don't take it seriously." No. All of my feelings for her that I'd been harboring came flooding back.
I said, "Sure. Just say when."
Eventually it got really late and she hadn't come to get me so we could leave. I hunted her down and found that, of course, she was passed out on the bed in the master bedroom, next to our friend. This was not unusual, she and I both often slept over at their house on weekends after we all went to gigs, parties etc.
In light of where I had thought things were going that night, I was pretty bummed out. I went back to the party. Eventually the party was over, it was morning, and I was ready to crash. Oh noes, the couches are already full. Gosh, hardly any room on the floor either, between the passed out people and the clutter. Clearly the only place I could possibly sleep is in the master bedroom. Next to her.
I laid there beside her thinking about the stuff that had transpired during the party. Next thing I knew, I was trying to... well... wake her up. Inappropriately. My hands wandered to areas they shouldn't have. She wouldn't wake up, but not for my lack of trying. Eventually she did wake up. And as soon as she realized what was happening, she bolted up and ran out of the room. "Oh, shit...." I finally got some sleep after that.
A few hours later I woke up and went to the kitchen and had coffee with a few other people who had slept over. She was still asleep on the couch. After a while she woke up and said goodbye to everyone and left. Before she walked through the door she gave me a cold look and said "You... I'll kill you later." I remember everyone slowing turning to look at me, "Oh man... what'd you do?"
That night I was still at our friend's house. She came over and we talked. I apologized, but to this day I regret that I also pretty much tried to make excuses about having bad judgment because I was drunk, feeling led on by the things she'd done at the party, blah blah blah. She had a really weird look on her face. She looked scared, but it was probably a mixture of disgust and disappointment. After we finished talking I remember feeling relieved because it seemed like it wasn't that big of a deal and we could get past it and go back to being friends. But she stopped hanging out with me after that. Not that I blame her.
We shared a lot of the same friends so we bumped into each other a lot anyway. We said hi and that was it. After about a year or so we were at the same party once again and she came up to me and said "Hey. I'm totally over it." We sort of went back to being friends as we had before. It was never quite the same. And the last thing I remember is, I was sleeping on her couch one night, and she was gleefully yelling at me from her bed, teasing me about something or other. So I got up and went into her room, grabbed a pillow, and pretended to smother her. We were just horsing around, truly. But she didn't find it so playful; she grabbed my keys and threw them out into the street and yelled at me to leave. That signified the last brittle thread of our friendship being broken. That would have been... about 17 years ago now. I haven't thought about this in ages. Holy crap.