Sophie - Part 2

I was after this girl called Sarah who was a new arrival in the halls of residence. She told me that she was going to a drum and bass night with her flatmates at a club in the city centre. I got together a group of my mates and we all went for the night.

I got more pissed than I should have and chewed Sarah's ear off badly (my prowess hadn't much improved since Shauna or Julie). I think I blew it with Sarah that night but we later became close friends.

We were all seated around the one table and I had some good chats with Sophie. Mostly about how we had very different senses of humour but that itself made us both laugh.

A few days later I met her on the lawn at halls and she said she was feeling sick and homesick. She was thinking of leaving. I didn't like this so I called by her flat a few times that week to cheer her up.

That was the start of us hanging out.

Sophie - Part 1

When I met Sophie I was at college. Sophie was dating another guy but it was long distance (one of those long distance relationships some people are in when they first go to college). Like most long distance relationships it was in the process of breaking up. Sophie and her boyfriend had been better than some and managed to keep it going beyond the first semester.

They way I met her was that I used to sit out in front of my block in halls of residence. The phones were all in my block so every once in a while I'd hear one ring and answer it. Then I'd have to go and get the person that was being called for.

On this particular occasion it was Sophie's boyfriend.

When I spoke to her on the intercom she came straight out and headed over with me to my block to get the call.

Afterwards she thanked me and went back to her own dorm. I sat reading my book for a while.

It would be two months before we met again.