Hello Lover? Dating Special - Part Six

Life & Love

After her first love returned to haunt her dreams, we find out whether Busy Girl Jenna is enjoying her new status...

“Do you have a boyfriend?” he asked. “Yes!” I replied, grinning my backside off. For once, I wasn’t simply saying it to get rid of a ‘chat-up-line-loser’. I was saying it because it was true. I was attached, I was somebody’s, and I was a girlfriend. Shocking to admit when, two months previously, I’d been beaming with pride at my single status.

Unpredictable. That’s one word to describe the past few weeks. Unpredictable kisses, unpredictable sleepovers, unpredictable feelings. It was six years since we’d backpacked around the world together and, regardless of the fond memories, it felt completely different. The intensity of young love had been swiftly replaced by something stronger and, dare I say it, more grown up.

This time, I was fresh out of anxiety. It was effortless. Yes, we were starting over. He missed me when we were apart, talked to his friends about me and told me that he’d never felt this way before. Me? Well, I was taking it slow. My independence was remaining firmly intact.

I was no longer hung up on the past. A past that I once thought would tarnish what could have been. The future lay before us like an unwritten open book. I didn’t know what would fill the pages or what dramas would unfold. I was enjoying the present far too much to concern myself with the before and after. 

I had adored my single life, it had to be said, and, although I was clinging on to my freedom for dear life, it felt pretty incredible to be somebody’s somebody again.