Well, Mr. Italy sent me an email yesterday that it was nice talking & wanted to know if I missed him. Again, that was always his thing.
Quick refresher: He & I hung out maybe 15 times between November and July after Gameboy & at the beginnings of Cowboy.
We went out to eat once, drink twice, and a movie. The rest of the time he wanted to hang out at his apartment and ..............well.....................anyway.......................
I never considered him much of anything except an interim. He was inconsistent & vague. All of the time. That was the one thing he was consistent with.
So I emailed him back and said it was nice to chat but I see he has not called me even though I had imed him my number at the end of that chat session. He sends back an email asking for it again. I sent it. No call.
I sign on to my account last night & see he's on. So since he imed and emailed me the last two times initiating this contact, I decided to send him the im. He sent it back asking if I missed him. I said no, but I had been thinking about him recently. He asked why. I told him that I just went through a break up & that this is when all past things come back out of the woodwork. I told him how Gameboy was back around & now him. He said "What was I to you?" I told him "An interim". He said "Oh. I thought we were more than that." I pointed out that in order to be more than that you have to put effort into it and see eachother more than once every other week. He didn't see why I didn't view him as a boyfriend. I told him that he wasn't and that's it. I reminded him of the last time we hung out. He immediately asked "Did I look good? Do you remember?" I said "Yes". He then asked me to describe what I remember. I told him to stop being so self-centered and vain. He said he wasn't but wanted to know. Oh god...the ego. I forgot about it.
He wanted to hang out last night but I said no. I said Friday would be good. So, typical Italy, said "Come to my place". I said no. I told him if he wants to get together he can come this way & we can get drinks or dinner or something. I said he'd have to call me as well as I am not doing this over an instant message. My phone was off & charging and isn't when he called? How do I know? A message came through about 2 minutes after we had chatted that did not provide a phone number and there was nothing there. Do you see why, Mr. Italy, this was never a relationship?