Coups and Blonds

As I mentioned previously, I am an editor of an independent school magazine, The Blond and The Ex boyfriend alongside me. However, The Ex has been allowed to edit a major part of our first few papers and what he was producing was substandard at best. The Blond persuaded me that The Ex's time had past and he needed to have less authority. He was right of course, but I was scared to wield the axe. Regardless, we did the patriotic thing and staged a democratic coup, an effort to get him away from power but still as a writer. All the while the ex attacked me brutally, accusing me of attacking him. However the Blond did the remarkable and defended me. I was touched and The Ex was off the editorial board.

Speaking of the Ex, he's currently dating the girl he went to in order to get over me. I shat bricks when I saw them kissing, but my second thought was somewhere along the lines of "Wow, this was inevitable"

Last Saturday, things with the blond went....somewhere. He called me around 5.30 pm and asked me to got to a gallery with him at a local college. I schemed to go and we went. The gallery sucked (I'd like to point out that I do have an inordinate amount of experience with modern and classical art for a 15 year old) However, he was the faultless gentlemen, opening doors, offering to buy me drinks. We walked back to his house and he offered to walk me home but we had no way to explain why we walked home without us getting in trouble. So we hung out in his room for 3 hours while his parents were at a movie. I can understand why this sounds bad, girl and boy, unsupervised in a bedroom? If this were a teen movie, we'd be on the bed in the throes of a passionate make out. We just talked and laughed and he sang and he has a beautiful voice, rich, clear and strong. We sang together. He talked about his childhood in Russia and Germany, his insecurities, drugs and exes. It would be untruthful of me to admit we had a few tense moments (don't confuse awkward with tense) us, standing close, eye to eye.... But he is so untouchable. He's dating a girl I introduced him to and, although it's a virtual Internet relationship, he likes a lot. Not to mention the Best Friend factor. Woe betide me and Heaven help me if she found out anything was going on between us.

Will something happen between us? We almost seem too compatible not to. The subtle touches on the arm and back, the brushed hands and knees. He pays more attention to me now more than ever. Why do I get the feeling his interest isn't strictly professional? Or is that just my subconscious nagging at me?

I can't touch him but I'm not sure whether or not I want to.