Entry 2: Week 5

May 8th, 2019

Work was the same as usual today. Except, Quentin texted me during my breaks. She did the same yesterday too. I’ve been over the moon since then. I don’t think it’ll last long -since she’ll eventually stop texting, and then she’d just be another person I used to know- but she asked me out. She didn’t tell me where we were going, but she offered to pick me up on saturday. My guess is it’s a museum, since she asked if I liked museums. I’m not sure if this is a date, but I really hope so. And I need to look good for this. I’m not saying I’m ugly, I’m just saying she’s perfect. And when you’re standing next to perfection, you are everything but. The problem is, we’re possibly going to a museum, so I can’t do anything over the top, but I don’t want to look casual. I wish I knew what she was wearing to match.

Quentin would look good in a blazer, a vest, a slit maxi skirt, flare jeans, of course, apple bottoms too perhaps, but I’m not quite sure, since she’s relatively tall. Around 6 ft would be my guess, since she towers above me, and I’m 5 ft 6”. Let’s be honest, she’d look good in anything. She’s an open person and I think she really likes having meaningful conversations with me. Whenever I ask her a question, she has no problems answering, except one question.

Today we texted about our lives. She told me she dropped out of college, where she was studying physics, because of her mental health. She was too broke to get therapy, so she tried self-help books in libraries and eventually stumbled her way into fitness motivation books. So running was her new form of treating her mental health. She got a job in carpentry as an apprentice and hit the gym whenever she could. She also wrote a book about mental health. I asked her how it sold, and she said it sells well. Present tense, so it’s still selling. Which to my surprise is because she has a following on the gram and that makes sense, since 1, she looks like a model who would never get hired because, while extremely attractive, she isn’t skinny to modeling standards, but people on insta eat up the curves and 2, that’s how she gets her clients.

I wanted to tell her about me too, since she was being so open, so I told her that I decided to work at the post office because I didn’t know what else to do, and I needed money somehow. I told her about the time I ran off with a guy I barely knew just to escape my parents. It was a terrible time living with him, so I decided to get a job. I got rejected everywhere, probably because I had no qualifications. I chose to work at a post office because I had no choice and because I also came to the realization that there wasn’t much competition there and postal workers were needed.

Quentin asked me about my parents, but I didn’t want to say anything. She’d been so open with me, so I felt bad and just decided to be vague and say that they were going to throw me out of their house anyway, because they never really wanted a kid and their legal responsibility was over. I didn’t want to bring the conversation down with my childhood, so I asked her about hers. She said she’d rather not reply to that. So I’m guessing she’s also had a bad time.