On a stormy lonely day in january I received an invitation for a 18th birthday party, not really wanting to go I merely slumped around the house for a bit. That's when my brother noticed the invitation and told me to either go or be prepared to help him at the bar he owned. Begrudgingly I prepared for the evening, preparing some nicer clothes putting gel in my hair and practicing my fake smile for the hundredth time.
Once there I noticed that the birthday boy had booked a rather large hall for only 15 people most of which were guy's to my horror. Oh well it was time to get my party on. Loudly I entered the circle of guests proclaiming my congratulations to the birthday boy while making a few jokes, the evening of "fun" had started. It didn't take very long after that to get the party started since the last of the guests were starting to dripple in, while making small talk to one of the other guests I noticed that there was a lone girl standing a bit outside of the group, obviously very lonely. She wasn't an overly pretty girl like a victoria's secret model but she was good looking, so in my sense of male bravado I signaled her to come and stand in the group. Bewilderment went through the entire group, there was a girl at the party and a good looking one too, immediately she gained the attention of the bigger part of the group, while I went to talk to a few guy's that I knew.
Finally all the guests had arrived and the party actually started the music was turned louder, drinks were passed around and people started to dance in a very awkward sense. I saw the girl in question being hug with some newly arrived girls but also being hounded down by most of the party goers.
In all honesty the party was boring to say the least but it did provide one good opportunity, namely to save the good looking girl from another guest who had clearly had too much too drink. We talked and talked until eventually the party came to a stop, then came the goodbye's and a chance to ask for her phone number. But she had the same idea as me and asked mine first.
All in all it turned out to be a fun evening with a good prospect for the near future. I ended up dating this girl for a year until I broke it off.
While she had an enormous amount of feelings for me, my own feelings were more reserved and less in quantity until they eventually faded into nothingness.
This is currently the only story of romance that has happened in my life.