The one that got away

[CrashBang]

Do you have that 'one that got away'? The girl/boy who you had a chance with and didn't take it? This isn't meant to be a depressing thread, btw, I'm just interested to hear stories of lost love. So yeah do you have anyone like that? Maybe a friend you secretly liked and never got up the courage to ask out? Or someone who liked you but at the time you didn't like back? Or just a girl/boy you messed things up with and still think about
I've got two: There's the girl I first slept with. She broke up with me shortly after and, during our 6 months together, she affected me a lot. That was nearly four years ago and I still think about her all the time. Then there's the girl who was my high school best friend. We liked each other but neither of us ever made a move. From then on each of us was always with someone else and so the opportunity slipped through my fingers

Your turn, who slipped through your grasp?

 

[Nimcha]

Kinda. My first girlfriend, we only started dating for about two months before graduation, after that she got a place in a university on the other side of the country. Tried long distance, didn't work. Still wonder sometimes what could've been. Oh well.

 

[Ruwrak]

I think I have missed 32489 chances.
I'm not that receptive on emotions / subtle hints.
HEck if you say it directly to my face I might not get the hint XD



But I have someone that comes close to the one, after 21 years that is x.x

 

[ScarletRider]

Okay, I'll bite.

Back in high school, there was this one redhead. She was tall, willowy, fair skin and blue eyes. Her hair color was light, but very vibrant, and I would see her every once in awhile while walking down the hall. I didn't think anything of her at all, but I noticed her.
One day, I was cutting class and doing what I usually did during such times, pick a quiet corner and read a book until the next period, which was lunch. When the classes let out, and students crowded the area, I moved on. It was when I was walking past the vending machines when I noticed her, and she seemed to swoon, falling against the coke dispenser.
She slid down to the floor, unnoticed by the crowd even as some stepped over her to get to the chow line. Without a conscious thought, I pressed through them to get to her. She roused herself then, looking up at me and I held out my hand.
Her skin was smooth, and as frail as her fingers felt, she was able to use my hand to rise to her feet. Our eyes locked, and after a moment or two looking at each other, she turned first then looked back, saying a quiet thank you. I nodded. I couldn't catch a breath.
A friend of hers came up then, and before it could get any more awkward, I walked away, disappearing into the crowd. I didn't look back. I thought about looking her up again later, but it was only a week before I would transfer to another school. I never saw her again.

May not be much of a love story, but even so, I wonder about her still.

 

[JezebelinHell]

There was a guy in college that used to be my lab partner in all of my classes. He used to call me just before classes started and copy my schedule. He was too attractive and not quirky enough to be my type but damn we used to flirt like crazy in class. OMG the tension was hilarious really. Neither one of us ever asked each other out. He even called me up like a year later and drove 2 hours to meet up with me to hang out one time... I didn't even think about why he would have done that. Yea, now I think I might have been completely clueless about that one.

 

[T8B95]

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Love your avatar.

OT, no not really. I shove all of my emotions in a bin and throw them off the nearest bridge. If anything like this happened to me, it would get a perfunctory "Oh well" as I go back to my incredibly mundane life.

 

[bassdrum]

There's a girl I know, and we used to be really close. We didn't see each other much during the day (our schedules are/were very different from each other) but we would talk almost nightly, often for long periods of time--stretching well past the hour mark on a very regular basis. I started to be interested in her, she started to be interested in me... but then we fell out of contact for a few months. We were both busy, and not necessarily able to talk to each other, and so we didn't hear from each other for a long time. Meanwhile, another girl entered my life, and I totally bungled that and got distracted from the first girl. Time passed. A few weeks back, our schedules cooled down, and I saw her around a few times. We struck up conversations, we were very friendly, and we were starting to get back towards where we'd left off. Then, the very day that I planned to do something about it (indeed, as I was walking over to go talk to her), I found out that she'd been asked out the day before. She's been dating him for the last month or two.

This isn't the only time that I've totally messed up as far as women are concerned, she's just the most applicable as the 'one who got away'. Most often, I fall for close friends of mine, and it doesn't work out because they only want me to be a friend. That's happened way too frequently, although on the bright side, I'm often still able to be friends with them, even if that's not quite what I'd been hoping for.

Sorry if this ended up being depressing or anything, I'm just not very good at women, so I don't have too many happy stories to tell.

 

[latenightapplepie]

No-one yet. That's one of the benefits of being terribly alone in your teenage years.

But there is this boy now I really would hate to let get away...

 

[Cliff_m85]

Nope, I'm stronger than a woman so I can hold her down so she doesn't get away.

To say the least, I have difficult relationships. XP

 

[The Stonker]

Well.
I just lost a girl, because of my own stupidity this winter.
She had golden hair and blue spangled eyes. She made the cockels of my heart warm with joy and glee.
But now I must forget her now, even if it takes away my last harrowed breath.

I still have her on my mind and that's one reason why my confidence is so low right now.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I thought this was a thread about fishing...

I had one, a girl in my class in high school... She was amazing, loving, had a fiery temper, we had all the same interests, (a girl who likes long novels, video games AND is a complete techie!?!?), and she was absolutely beautiful...

Finally after so long with us being best friends I made a move...
...and found out she thought I was gay...
...and didn't like me "that way"

...*sigh*

 

[kannibus]

Ah, there was one girl in high school, smart and pretty I thought she was amazing. In addition, she didn't treat me like dirt, yeah I was a SUPREME NERD back in high school. Anyway, I never got the guts to talk to her and so after more years than I care to remember, I sometimes get all nostalgic for her. Happens mostly in autumn when I catch the scent of perfume sometimes on the wind.

However, I have instead my lovely wife who is superior in all respects.

 

[Xiorell]

lol well I was a complete man-whore for a good 4 year stretch in my life and there was a lot of women I could have but didn't, in that time.

But

this one little goth lass, I took her home, she was well and truely "up for it"... we messed around some but didn't do the deed.... I was trying to be a bit gentleman like. If I'd have just gone for it I'd have been in there. I do think I shoulda just have been an asshole in that case and shagged her silly, she was HOT. Lost contact over time etc

 

[Drakmeire]

So so many, there was a girl in 8th grade who really liked me (very pretty too) but I was too shy to make a move and she started to sleep with every guy in school afterword and stopped acknowledging that she even knew me.
I'd name off the many others but that one was the biggest.

 

[Jedoro]

Ah, reminds me of a young blonde I was after. Blue eyes, beautiful smile, lovely body. She just looked angelic when she walked, I couldn't get the nerve to do it. I'd run through it over and over in my head, but now that it came down to the moment, I just didn't want to anymore. Before I could finally focus enough, she saw the glare from my scope and ran off.

OT: No one in particular comes to mind, just a few girls I was never close to but thought about asking out.

 

[IxionIndustries]

I thought this was a thread about fishing..

I wish it were about fishing. At least gutting baby trout is less depressing than this.

On topic, I had a girl like that, and shockingly enough, I am currently with her. Even though we are both going through tough times. Crazy parents and poverty and all.

All I can say, is to try. I made contact with her through Facebook stalking and direct confrontation, and I won my way into her heart with my witty personality, and my charismatic charms.

 

[Booze Zombie]

A girl offered me a relationship when I was 12, I was nervous and we just stayed friends until she moved away and I never see her again.

Clichéd, sure, but it's a piece of my life and I do regret not taking the moment.

 

[Actual]

I don't date a lot, I've had two serious relationships and they both ended for good reasons, I don't dwell on them.

But there was one girl I met recently; a friend of a friend. Said friend thought we'd be good together and so sat us next to each other at her wedding. I was enchanted and got enough liquid courage to ask her out. We went on a simple lunch date and she seemed perfect, we seemed perfect for each other. However, when I asked about seeing her again she wasn't interested, kept talking about how busy she was. I don't want to push it so I just ask her to call me when she's free.

She never did, and despite the fact that it was only one date I can't help but feel that I did something to screw up my chance with the perfect woman. It drives me nuts.

 

[ZodiacMaster101]

There was one time where I had a crush on one of my friends, and I felt as if she was the greatest female in the entire universe....... but I was too much of a coward to ever tell her what I thought of her, as I was afraid of the possility of ruining my friendship with her and of the possibility of being rejected. Years went on, and people started asking me what I thought of her, and I told them, and I think they told her to, because now whenever i talk to her she avoids eye contact with me, and she also started hanging out with another boy and essentially replaced me.

 

[MintyNinja]

3 that were important to me, but I never realized it until it was too late. I do my best to not think about them anymore.