Hajime

Wow, I finally found a guy, lol. His name is Justin, and I met him in my Chinese Culture class on Thursday. I was just doodling in my notebook, either eyes like always or the two Japanese characters that I know. Anyway, I had my ipod on so I wasn't really paying attention to anything, or even noticed that someone had sat down next to me. I'm not sure how long he had been watching my aimless drawing, but eventually he said "I like your drawings." I feel so bad about this next part, haha because I must have given him the most terrified look. I looked up at him shocked, first that he was speaking to me, second that he liked my drawings. I sort of did a double take, looking up at him, looking back down to my drawings, then back at him, and then my drawings again before I just said that they aren't that good and I just like to doodle. He said "Doodling's good" and then we kind of went quiet for a bit before he said "I'm Justin by the way," and I told him that I'm Sarah. Then he went on to ask me if I was taking Japanese and I told him that unfortunately I wasn't. Then he asked me what my favorite anime is and I told him that I'm not really sure, but I guess Naruto would have to be it sine it's the last one I watched a lot. That was pretty much it until we were leaving class when he said "I'll see you Tuesday Sarah." Now, I have no idea why, but I went back to the dorm before English and sat down and looked him up on facebook. I found him and added him as a friend, but he didn't get on and add me until later that night. I'm not sure why, but I just wanted any excuse at all to talk to him, so I asked him about a possible quiz in Chinese, though I admittedly already knew we didn't have one. This is our facebook conversation after that:

Me: Hey, sorry, but do you know if we were going to have a quiz next class in chinese?
Justin: no problem at all. i received an email from professor and we don't have a quiz on tuesday but we will be talking more about journey to the west.
Me: oh okay thank you, and one more thing. are you going to the football game tomorrow? my roommate left me a ticket but I'm not going to go unless i know anyone else who is, haha.
Justin: I can go to the football games yet because i have not bought any tickets. i forgot all me money at home so my parents are sending down my credit card. i'll be doing home work for most of the day tomorrow unfortunately. maybe some other time though.
Me: oh haha don't worry about it at all. i just found out the buses are sold out anyway or something like that. thanks anyway
[After this I was thinking that maybe he really didn't want to hang out with me that much and was just lettig me down easy. So needless to say, I got pathetically happy with his next comment.]
Justin:but if you feel like going to late night at the U tonight or something like that i'm planning on going and wouldn't mind the company.
Me: yeah sure, anywhere or time you want to meet up?
Justin: i was thinking to be there around 8:30 technically nothing starts until 9 but i really want to get in line for stuff a husky. haha i know kind of childish but i've never done anything like that before so why not try it. so would you like to meet outside the movie theater?
oh by the way would you like some pointers on the ramen dilemma?
[My facebook status at the time had said "Sarah has no clue how to make ramen with a microwave."]
Me:Haha i've never done stuffed animals either (assuming that's what it is?) The movie theater is inside the S.U. right? I think I remember where it is, but I just want to make sure. And any pointers on the ramen thing would be great. I usually make it on the stove, but there's no place to boil water in my dorm haha.
Justin:Haha yes the theater is in S.U. and as for the ramen i usually fill a container thats big enough to hold the amount of ramen wanted with about 3/4 water. then i put it in the microwave ( with just water) for about 8 minutes. i stop the timer when it gets to the 6 or so. then i put the ramen in and put it back in the microwave. i periodically turn it so it all cooks. and the it should be done when the timer gets to about three or two. but i usually put the whole package in. i don't put any of the packet in though. i use hot sauces and hot peppers i have in my room. hope this helps
Me:Wow haha thanks a lot, I'll definitely try it soon.
Justin: hope it helps

So that's it until it was time to go to the Student Union. I won't go into needless details about how I had cleaned my dorm with the hope that he might come up and see it for a few minutes. But anyway...so I walked to the Student Union and got there about fifteen minutes later and found him sitting on a couch waiting for me. We met up and just kind of walked around. He got some tea and asked me if I wanted anything. (Which is one of the events of that night which led me to believe I might have been on a date with him, but that could just be me being hopeful.) Anyway, I told him that I was fine and that I'd just had ramen shortly before. So we sat at a table for a bit while he drank his tea and then we walked around a bit after it had cooled down and we got in line to get plants. So we got pots, decorated them (He put the Triforce on his and I just put blue lines on mine) and then picked out our plants, put dirt in, and watered them. After that, we didn't really want to get in line for the "Stuff a bear" thing but decided that it was too long, so he got us tickets and then we just walked around knowing that we were guaranteed an animal. We wandered into the game room and checked out the stuff in there, but didn't find anything that we could do. After this we went back to the large cafeteria area of the Student Union and listened to people do karaoke for a while. I could tell that he wanted to do it, despite me saying that I don't do public singing, so I offered to go see what kind of songs they had. Turns out, my taste in every type of music, means I don't know a lot of any type. This caused some issues as every song he pointed out ended up being an artist I knew and often liked, but didn't know the song. Finally we gave up on that and sat down again and just listened to people sing, or...try. In any case, it was fun. Finally we'd had enough and went back to the line for the stuffed animals and were at the end of the line for a while, slowly moving up. After a few minutes, this drunk couple came up behind us and started talking to us. Justin talked to the guy while I talked to the girl. She asked me various things, a couple of which were kind of...well they were questions I didn't know the answer to. She asked me if Justin was my boyfriend and when I answered that I didn't know, I tried to look at him from the corner of my eye and he didn't react in any way, so maybe he wasn't listening (I hope not) Then she asked where he lives and I told her that I didn't know because I'd only met him the day before. Then somehow they found out that they needed tickets to make a stuffed animal and left. The looks Justin and I gave each other must have been identical, with him saying "I really wonder what was in that water bottle, cuz they were definitely drunk." I was laughing saying that I had been wondering that same exact thing. Finally the line reached the table and we got to cut in front of about 8 people or so because we had tickets and they didn't. I had finally decided on making a Panda, and he made a tiger. ( I named my panda Hajime which means "beginning" because I'm hoping that night was the beginning of a lasting relationship with Justin - whether it's a friendship or something more) Finally, he asked if I wanted to do the name painting thing, but I told him that I was done for the night, after of course some indecision and apologizing. (He has a problem with apologizing too much too, though honestly I dont' think it's as bad as me.) So then we walked back to his dorm to find out the bus schedule to see which bus I have to take to get backto my dorm, and we discovered that we had just missed the bus by a few minutes. He then asked me if I wanted to wait for the bus or if I wanted to walk back. I didn't know what he wanted, so I opted for walking back because by the time the bus came, we could've been at the dorm anyway. He was very nice about it and offered to walk me back. I tried to tell him that he didn't have to but in all honesty I really wanted him to. He insisted on walking me back saying that he didn't trust people. It was really nice of him and we talked some more on the way back. Finally we got to the dorm, and he held my stuff while I dug for my card to get in. I got up to my dorm and of course had to update my facebook status saying that I had had an amazing night, and ten minutes later he had updated his saying that he had stuffed a tiger, walked back in the rain, but had had one hell of a night. Then I commented him, not really expecting any comment back but he did.

Me: Thank you so so so much for taking me with you to the late night thing, lol. I'm definitely going again next week. And the stuffed animals were totally worth the line. Just 'sayin.
Justin:for sure! lol it was a long walk back by myself i ended up singing lol. yeah i am going next week again defiantly
Me:I'm so sorry, I'll have to figure out the buses in the next week so you don't have to do that, lol. Thanks though =)
Justin:lol it was no problem at all. needed the exercise ya know. and it would not be very polite to have you walk back that far by yourself in the rain.

That was it. I went up to sleep and woke up at noon. Now I absolutely cannot wait until Tuesday, but I don't think I'll talk to him until then unless he talks to me first. Ugh, suddenly 2 1/2 days seems like so much, haha.

What makes him everything I could ever want in a guy:

• He doesn't drink alcohol
• He doesn't smoke
• He doesn't do drugs
• He doesn't want premarital sex
• He doesn't swear a lot
• He plays an instrument
• He likes anime
  

I swear, I can't imagine someone more perfect than him, at least from what I know of him. And I only met him two days ago!