Current mood:

annoyed

My New Years
It all started when we were approaching Calgary. Kelly called Deb to say she was now in town and at Deb's suggestion the group of us went to the Outback Steakhouse. Once Kelly got off the phone she turned to me and mentioned that her ex-boyfriend Chad was going to be there. Now even though it's been over between them for several years, Chad is someone I've never felt easy about. Kelly was with him for quite a while and Chad still remains part of her inner circle of friends. He also calls at inopportune times but I won’t get into that. In any case there wasn’t much I could do now but meet the guy. Dinner went well enough and at first he seemed ok but then we headed out to a local arcade (Kelly needed to get some DDR action). Well it certainly seemed to me that Chad was looking at Kelly a little too much for my tastes but whatever, I figured it was probably me just being a jealous boyfriend.

Fast forward to the New Years eve party at Deb’s. Chad was doing his best to remind me of his past relationship with Kelly. He would often try to take a trip down memory lane with Kelly (though she wasn’t biting). She saw what he was trying to do and shot him down with a few snappy comments, too bad he didn’t take a hint. He would try to get me to tell stories about Kelly, like our relationship is any of his damn business. At one point he even came right up to Kelly and me and intruded in what was obviously a private conversation. Kelly even told me he tried to unsuccessfully put his arm around her a few times…way too close for my comfort. Now I may sound unreasonable, I could have been reading into all this, but both Kelly and another friend of hers (who I now have an all new respect for) saw what was happening. Chad knew that I had proposed a couple of nights before, he saw the ring when Kelly first showed it off at the party, he saw how happy she was. Yet instead of backing off he spent the night trying to boost his pathetic ego. And you know, the engagement shouldn’t have mattered. If he was a true gentleman he would have respected that Kelly was with someone, I mean we’ve been together for nine months, we got an apartment together. Yet Chad showed no such respect.

Perhaps I should have said something to him at the time but like I said he’s a close friend to Kelly’s other friends and it could have just caused problems. I know Kelly really wants me to get along with her group and I think they’re a great group of people but having Chad there acting the way he did really made me feel out of place.