Funny how he gets along with my friends

Finally introduced him to my friends.

And no, not my Bernie and Amber. But my friends at uni.

He's a nice guy, Nikki, you're lucky to be with him, J said.

Jewel, Iris and Niera like him.

Iris is still a bit skeptic because she gets overprotective of me especially since she found out how hard I fall when I fall in love.

I'm not saying I full-on approve of him, but he's a pretty decent guy. The type of guy who wouldn't treat you like a doormat, she said.

Anyway, it was Jewel's birthday on Wednesday and she asked us if we would come out with her.

I was about to say no. My plan for the night was to just veg out in front of the TV in Iris's house and watch TFC for the Pinoy Big Brother.

It worked for a while, we ended up watching the Philippine president declare a state of emergency and watch Randy David get arrested.

Then Niera came home from her 12-hour shift.

Are we going out tonight, she asked

Umm.. we were just about to go out for a drive, Iris said.

I want to go out though, Niera said.

Well, J's out tonight so we can hook up with them in town later if you guys want, I supplied.

Cool, Melba's then, Niera urged.

Melba's it is, I said.

Then Emmet called. He asked where I was. Since I was helping Iris to put her contacts on, I was laughing when I answered my phone.

Have you had a few drinks, he asked.

No, I'm not drunk, just happy, I said.

Same thing, he laughed. For some reason he knows my voice when I had a few drinks.

He also says that I say really mean things to him when I'm a bit tipsy.

What are you upto, he asked.

I told him that we were going to Melba's. He wanted to come.

Give me twenty minutes and I'll see you over there, he said.

We racked up at Surfers at 10:30 and met up with Jewel and her friend. We then went to Melba's and I was greeted by Alex, Emmet's bouncer best friend.

Where's Emmy, he asked.

Funny how now everytime he sees me, he asks me where Emmet is. We're not joined at the hip. But people seem to think that we should be. Which is good I guess because that means, he talks about me to his friends.

Wait for ten minutes and I'll get you free entry upstairs, he said.

But since there were too many weirdos downstairs, everybody wanted to go upstairs straight away. So we did.

The music at Melbas is crap. Any Gold Coaster reading this post right now, if you're into house music and techno, Melba's is your place.

But for the rest of the population who likes their RnB, go to The Drink, Quest and Shooters.

Ok, enough of the plug. I had a drink with the girls and Emmet arrived along with his friends. He came behind me and gave me a hug.

Hello, cranky, he whispered.

I turned around and gave him a hug. But in all honesty, I was a bit disappointed that he went with us, because I knew as I saw him, I would spend majority of my time talking to him rather than dancing - which is my main objective.

But since I try to be a good girlfriend now, I hugged him really tight and introduced him to my friends.

This is Jewel, it's her birthday, I said.

He leaned over and gave her a hug. And of course, my friends being my friends, all started looking at him and smiling at him and asking me if that was Emmet.

It was so obvious, I wanted to smack them.

Since Emmet doesn't dance, he was just sitting on our table drinking his beer and annoying the hell out of me [in a good way, people]. Everytime I'd start dancing, he would come over and put his hand on my back and would start talking to me.

I'd stop for a bit, but when an RnB song would come on, I would leave him midsentence and join my friends on the dancefloor. He got a bit upset about it a few times but he learned to accept that.

It's just one of your quirks, to be really mean to me, he said.

Not to be really mean or anything, but he just sits on a stool and do nothing. He just drinks his beer and looks at me. And I feel guilty for having a good time because my boyfriend is sitting all alone in the darkness looking like a total loner.

It's weird how I feel funny calling him my boyfriend, I told Jewel.

You don't have to call him your boyfriend, from the way he touches you and looks at you, it seems that he doesn't care if he's your boyfriend, all he knows is that you're his girlfriend, she said.

That's true. Sometimes it bothers me that he doesn't pressure me into saying that I love him.

Or he doesn't get upset that I don't seem to want to see him all the time.

Or how I tell him that I don't want him to meet my mother and stepdad.

Either he really likes you and agrees to be treated like a doormat or he's pulling your leg and not really care about you at all, Carlo said matter-of-factly.

That got me thinking.

But then again, when it was time for us to head home, he said goodbye to his friends and joined us girls.

I dropped of Niera and Iris first.

Then came Jewel and her friend. Since I was busting to go to the toilet, I asked J if I can use her toilet.

I left him in the car and went in with the girls.

As soon as I got on the car, I realised that he had written I love Nikki on my windshield.

That doesn't mean anything Nikki, you said it yourself, guys fake relationships, don't get sucked in by an I love Nikki sign on your damn windshield, Carlo snapped.

By the way, did he wipe it cos it's pretty hard to wipe it out once it sets in, he added.

He is so pessimistic about my relationship with Emmet.

Anyway, I crashed over at his house and I was almost passed out on his bed when he pulled out a plate of Krispy Kreme donuts.

What a dumbass, didn't he know you are on a diet? Why would he give you donuts, Carlo cried out.

Sometimes there's no point in telling him what I've been upto cos he's just not happy for me. Plus, I can tell that he doesn't like him. It doesn't matter, he never liked any of my boyfriends anyway.

I just don't want you getting hurt. You've been hurt before and it almost killed you, I don't want to see you suffer again, you're too fragile to get hurt again. And I'm scared that this time I won't be there to be with you and to tell you to take things one step at a time, he said.

I love you too much to see you falling carelessly in love with someone you don't know. Nikki, it's not something that you can not control. Be careful because I don't have the money to go over there just to whop his ass if he broke your heart, he continued.

Whatever you do, don't fall in love yet. It's too early in the relationship and you don't know a thing about him. Sure, he talks about you to his friends but for all you know he may be telling them that he got himself a young Asian chick who follows everything he says, you don't know Nikki, and I want you to be careful. I'm not there to pick up the pieces after you, he said.

I see his point, I love Carlo so much cos he tells me to keep my feet on the ground.

Because at the moment, my head is in the clouds.

But I respect him too much not to grant his request. For all I know he maybe right.

And as much as I'm scared for him to be right, I'm even more scared of the shit I have to face once he rubs it on my face that he never goes wrong.