Turns Out He’s Married
And his wedding was on national television.
I’m a student. I’ve been spending countless days in the library, from morning to evening, studying. And where better place to find a hot future doctor than the library? And that’s exactly what happened to me. But it didn’t turn out the way I thought it would.
He was sitting on the desk across mine. Every now and then I caught him looking at me. To be honest, I was looking at him too. He was tall, dark, and extremely fit. A face I would definitely remember. I started to see him around pretty often but that was it. I never really planned on speaking to him. Just admiring from a distance was enough.
Random Saturday night in a club, I felt an arm grab me and spin me around. It was that guy from the library. Looking more fit than usual. He told me something every girl wants to hear, ‘I’ve been dying to talk to you’. How smooth. I could tell he’s done this so many times before. We chatted for a few minutes and he quickly got out his phone to take my number. I, of course, was more than willing to give it to him. And then we parted ways.
Sunday morning I woke up to a text from him, ‘Got home okay?’ Of course I did. I’m perfectly capable of taking care of myself. How “considerate”. Typical fuckboy conversation starter. But it worked, and the conversation flowed. He was funny, witty, extremely forward, and such a flirt. He told me a little bit about himself. He’s a medical student from London. Likes to travel and party (how original), listens to rap and likes to wear glasses as an accessory, not because he can’t see.
But the information he gave me was not enough to satisfy my curiousity. And obviously, people only tell you what they want you to know. So I called in the human version of google, my girls group chat, to snoop around and see what they could find out. One of my friends, had a friend, who had a friend, who knows of him. And within 5 minutes, not only did I find out he’s married but I had the youtube link to his wedding. Talk about a total mind fuck. Not everyday the hot guy you’ve been seeing around texts you, and then you find out he’s married.
So I watched it, twice. And I drank some wine and collected my thoughts. But I didn’t say a word to him. I acted completely oblivious and went with everything he had to say. Laughing at his jokes and picking up on his flirty hints. And I decided to accept his invitation to go out for drinks.
‘’Let’s have some fun with this one’’
I thought to myself. What kind of dedicated blog writer would I be if I didn’t cease the opportunity to catch a cheater in the act? I grew up watching that MTV show ‘Cheaters’ were they follow the cheater around with a camera all week and confront him in an over dramatic way, full of hitting and screaming. I even considered taking my GoPro on our drinks date and catching the whole thing on camera. (Unfortunately, this idea seemed a little too extra and pretty unfeasible, so instead of watching the footage, you’re just going to have to picture it)
So I picked him, he was late. Left me waiting for 30 minutes. I was so close to leaving after the first 10 but this was a job I started and intended to finish. Not helping his case at all, he insisted on us having drinks at his place. Wanting to meet in secret, the ultimate warning sign of a cheater. I, of course, objected and chose a nice secluded bar where I knew we wouldn’t run into anyone I may know.
Car ride was okay. First round of drinks was fine. And although I sound extremely over confident about confronting him as I’m saying this story over 3 months later, I was shitting bricks. I wasn’t sure how to tell him I knew he had a wife. ‘I’ll have a martini, two olives and oh I saw your wedding on BBC, no ice please’ . So I decided to just be honest and truthful and tell it to him how it is. I told him I know a little more about him than I led him on to think. I was blatantly dropping an extremely nonsubtle hint here which I’m sure led him to assume what I was going to say next.
So I closed my eyes and came out with,
“BBC Three. Don’t Tell the Bride. Season 9. Episode 12"
I’ve never left a man so speechless.
