the surprise evening

i had dinner with F., whom i hadn't seen for nearly a year. it was nice to catch up. after dinner, we went to get a drink in a nearby bar where his girlfriend joined us. i don't know if it was because i was tired or something else but i was starting to feel a little dry on conversation topics - it would perhaps have been a bit better to meet her at a dinner with other people. but just as i was thinking i should go home anyway (the exam date is, after all, looming), J. showed up. turned out he and some of his friends were having a guys' night out. i knew most of them and funnily enough, it turned out that it was because they'd all come to my drinks at some point or another. R. was there too and i hadn't seen him since his birthday over a year and a half ago, so he plonked himself down next to me and started catching up. and i kind of didn't know how to mix both groups - i mean, it wasn't until later that i realised there were 6 guys altogether who had migrated to where we were and as we were sitting at the bar, it wasn't an ideal set up for conversation with everybody. i probably could have dealt with it better but on the other hand i assumed F. was quite happy to see me surrounded by guys - probably hoping i'd start dating one of them! in the end, F. and his girlfriend took off and i stayed until the music got too loud to continue talking. it was half past midnight. i had no idea it was that late! but it was a great night out.