Double Birthday Party

This weekend was the birthday of two of my dance class friends.  CA, my crazy wing woman from girls night out and A.  They have the same birthday so they decided to have a joint birthday party.  All of my wing women were going to be there along with a bunch of my other friends from class, so it was guaranteed to be a great time.  We were having a great time drinking and playing pool when all of a sudden I noticed two guys.  We decided to chat with them and learned that they were West Point Cadets with the night off.  One was from the mid-west who N, one of my wing women was talking to, and the other was from South America.  While they weren’t in uniform I could just imagine what they looked like.  Yum.  Of course, I am familiar with West Point and the fact that they were cadets made me curious about how old they were.  The South American told me that he was only 26.  Yikes!  I thought he was cute but he was 9 years younger than me.  But the alcohol was in charge and for that night I just didn’t care, especially when he kissed me!  He had great lips and beautiful eyes and he was a wonderful kisser.  He whispered in my ear “take me home with you.”   I looked him in those dark brown eyes and promptly burst into tears!  The look that overtook his face was of sheer confusion.  If I wasn’t a hot mess it would have been really funny.  He asked me what was wrong and I cried “I don’t want a one night stand….I want a husband!”  I ran towards the bathroom and found my friend R and threw myself into his arms sobbing.  My other friend A saw me run from the guy and came to find me fearing that something had happened.  “What did he do to you?  Do I need to beat that guy up?” he shouted.  At which point I had to explain that the cadet had done nothing wrong but as I was making out with him I realized that it would never be anything more than a one night stand and what I really wanted was a serious relationship.  I was sure it would be a good time but it wasn’t what I wanted.  I wanted more and jumping into bed with someone would not get me any closer to that.  So I went into the bathroom to clean myself up and amazingly when I returned to the bar, the cadet was still there!  I apologized to him profusely explaining that he had done nothing wrong, but that I couldn’t take him home with me.  I’m sure he thought I was the craziest woman he had ever met in his life.  It certainly wasn’t what he was looking for that night.  At that point I started drinking water so I could sober up.  I went home that night with a clear idea of what I wanted in my life.  I hope I find it.