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“Lady, When You’re With Me I’m Smiling.”

How A Programmer Wooed Me and Serenaded Me

I was at a work party when I first saw him, the programmer. I literally walked up to him and asked, “So, who are you?

We talked a lot that night, and many of us partied until the wee hours of the morning. I remember he was singing, Good morning, good morning!” and I just thought, “That guy’s crazy.

I saw him again at work and recognized him when he passed by on our side of the offices. And I found myself unable to stop thinking about him.

Hence started the flirting.


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He Intended To R-word Me!

But my friend saved me when she walked in on us!

The following anecdote deals with sensitive subject matter.
Reader discretion is advised.

When I was 15, a good friend of mine, AM (with whom I am still good friends), matched me up with a guy she knew. He was 14.

It all seemed fine.

I mean, we were all looking for some summer romance, someone to hold hands with and kiss a bit. But that was basically it. I mean, at 15, that’s all I wanted; attention from a guy in those ways.

So I meet this guy, we’ll call him Y (because my best friend calls him Yuck, and rightly so), and we start kind of dating. We’d take walks in the evening as the sun would set, and he seemed nice enough.

At 15, I was also very interested in hanging out with my friends, and AM and I loved hanging out with some of her neighbours and her sister.

We set a basketball date at the park one day; we were going to all meet up there. AM mentioned she might come by my place. I was alone at home upstairs in my mom’s duplex. I left the door unlocked for AM.

Y came by early, so we sat on my bed chatting.

He had other things in mind, however.


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The Portal Key Spell

The Portal Key Spell is the spell that allows one with enough knowledge of magic and powerful enough in magic to enter the Portal that lies in the Dragon’s Lair in Darakön. This spell allows the caster to enter even without the explicit permission of the dragons. Rare exceptions exist where the dragons allowed one to enter without the spell.

A Piece From Kaulchèc History

Before recorded history, the Kaulchèc came to the Great Ocean Valley and taught polcs how to utilise their magic in more powerful and practical ways. These Kaulchèc also discovered that if one enters the Portal, one can understand and master magic more powerfully. Upon reemerging from the Portal, one will be more powerful than any other.

To mitigate greed for power, Teloria’s rulers declared that one could only go through the Portal near the end of their life if they were already powerful enough in magic. In this way, that polc would die and become a star and not reemerge. Thus, the people of Teloria came to an agreement with the dragons who guarded the Portal.

However, greed for power overcame Bortah Mittèlor during King Silovah Firlan Mittèlor’s rule, and the king banished his brother and other members of his family from Teloria, in 2260 of Kaulchèc History. Eventually, fearing that greed would overcome him as well, Silovah Firlan left in exile, with many following him, and formed the small kingdom of Firlan Forest.

Over time, Bortah Mittèlor and his followers and new allies from the western islands, founded Morok, now known as Mork, with the goal to one day gain access to the Portal.


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“I Should Have Slept With You When I Had the Chance!” he said.

But our relationship was a Flirtmance!

So, I should preface this by disclaiming that I am happily married, but that does not prevent me from appreciating people from my past or what they meant to me back then.

The Backstory

Shortly after my abusive relationship, I was working in a theatre and there was this one actor rehearsing for a play (we’ll call him P) who would chat with me every shift I had. It began as small talk, but after a while turned into a bit of a subtle Flirtmance.

As an usher, sometimes I would spend my time sitting on a bench just outside one of the theatre halls in case a spectator needed assistance or something. We’d take turns with different tasks, and I got to watch a lot of plays that way. I worked evenings and some matinee shifts, and 4 days a week, so sometimes I was there a lot.

I’d bring in books to read for when I’d just be sitting and waiting for intermission and the end of the show. P would come sit next to me on the bench in between rehearsals and we’d chat. The books I was reading at the time were Star Wars books and he was a big fan too, so we’d talk a lot about that.

“Chat with you on the bench later,” I’d say.

“Looking forward to it,” he’d reply.

And after a time, we started flirting subtly with each other.


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