As of yesterday, it had only been 5 days since I had last seen Shawn. But each week that comes and goes has become torture. Especially since it has now become a patter of us only seeing one another every two weeks.
To make things worse, I am missing my son terribly too. He has been with his dad for a week and I don’t get him back until next Friday. So I was feeling rather twice as lonely as usual.
So here I was trying to get through my Saturday by playing some of my games on Facebook like Castleville and Frontierville. I started drifting off and daydreaming Hey1 Wouldn’t that be the coolest thing ever if Shawn just surprised me and showed up at my door. As if to say “Baby, You’re worth the gas money!”
I was texting him throughout the day and Shawn was taking rather a long time to respond. He’s usually the type to respond to my text messages in like 20-30 minutes. So now I am starting to think something is up. I sent him a text message around 4pm and said “I love you” and he responded with “love you”.
I kept imagining him to be having a riot of a time with his two boys all the while I sat home bored to death watching Zookeeper. About 2 hours later, I had asked him what he was up too. Which he took an hour to respond to me and he just said “Sorry babe, I was just cleaning the room and now me and the boys are just chillin’. What are you up to?”
I responded with “Oh just playing messing around on my PC.”
Then a few minutes later he sent me another text “What are you up to?”
I sat there puzzled why he asked me that question when I had just answered him. “Babe, can we talk on the phone later? You know when you’re not busy with the boys.” I hadn’t heard his voice on the phone for 2 days now and I was really missing him like crazy.
No response. I was starting to feel bothered about why was he taking so long to respond and why was he being especially quiet this evening. About 45 minutes later my phone rings.
Shawn: What are you up to, babe?
Me: Just messing on my PC still.
Shawn: Why aren’t you out or something?
Me: I know. I should be living it up and going out since you’re not here and neither is my son.
Shawn: Yea! Aren’t you gonna be going out with your other boyfriend tonight or something?
Me: (I laugh.) Nah. I’m just gonna chill at home.
Shawn: Wouldn’t you like to hang out with me tonight?
Me: Uh, yea but that’s not gonna happen.
Shawn: Sure it can!
Me: Uh, no.
Shawn: Babe, I’m in town.
Me: No you’re not!!!
Shawn: (laughs) Yea, I am. I just got here. I came down with my mom to drop off my boys a day early.
Me: OMG! No way?!?!
Shawn: (Laughs again.) Yes! So let’s hang out a bit tonight. I’ll take you for ice cream or something and then tomorrow we’re BBQing at my sister’s and you can come over here if you want.
Me: Ok, see you in a few.
I couldn’t believe it! I had daydreamed about this earlier and then it actually happened!
So Shawn shows up at my door and I come out to greet him. He looks sexy as ever wearing a red ball cap, his black and red athletic jacket, a pair of jeans and his favorite grey and red Nikes. I b-lined straight for him and threw my arms around him and kissed him repeatedly.
“What’s up smiley?” I smile at him. “I missed you soooo much!” Shawn holds me and lets out a sigh as he says “I missed you too.”
“Man, look at you all smiling! You look good, babe!”
“It’s you. You make me happy so I can’t help but smile.”
Shawn tucks my hair behind my ear and says “You make me happy too”, then he kisses me again.
We didn’t have much time since he could only hang out for a few hours because he hates leaving his mom to have to babysit his boys. So we went to Starbucks and chatted for about 2 hours. Man, those two hours of adult conversation was like a piece of heaven. No boys to interrupt, no crying niece throwing a tantrum, no one else demanding Shawn’s attention; just me.
Saying goodbye or even just goodnight to Shawn is never easy. We ended up sitting in the car outside my house chatting for another 30 minutes followed by another 15 minute walk-to-the-door-kiss-good-night session. But I knew that I would see Shawn the next afternoon so that made it slightly easier.
I showed up at 12:30 for the BBQ on Sunday (today). As soon as I walked in the door his boys greeted me and said “Sara, come open our present”. (They had a Christmas present for me.) The oldest boy hands it to me and I open it. It was a candle that smelled like gingerbread cookies. “Wow! I love it! Thank you boys!” His older son says “Aww, she hates it” and he lowered his head as he said that. “No I don’t. I honestly love it! I love candles! Thank you. Really, it was so nice of you guys.”
We all then went to the backyard as the boys were eager to introduce me to their dogs. (Wait a second! I just realized you all are probably confused as to why Shawn’s boys would be introducing their dogs to me if we were suppose to be at Shawn’s sister’s house. Well, Shawn’s sister and her children just moved into the house of Shawn’s ex-wife and his boys. I know….crazy right????) Anyhow, after a brief introduction to the dogs we all just hung out with him outside. I traded off between hugging on Shawn whom was manning the Chicken on the grill or I watched/played with his niece.
When we sat down to eat, we chatted with his sister and his mom a bit. I really love his family. His sister has a heart of gold and the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree; because she’s a lot like Shawn’s mom in that way. It was a really nice afternoon. I was able to snuggle with Shawn for a bit and then he was asking me when did I have to leave. I think maybe he was starting to get anxious because he himself had to drive back home still and he also didn’t want to have an awkward situation in which his ex-wife would come home and meet me for the first time, in her home like that. So, I left him at about 4:00pm.
This week won’t be too long. Shawn and I plan to see each other later this week when I have to pick up my son from his dad’s.
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