Badminton friends

It was definitely a good idea to start doing badminton. It’s good for your health, keeps you busy on rainy Sundays and you get to meet some people.

A few weeks ago I noticed one of the guys playing. Hadn’t seen him before but he looked cute. We didn’t have a chance to play together but by the end my interest faded a bit away, I thought he seemed a little bit too camp for what I normally like but I still found him attractive.

TL was there as well and he happened to know him. TL is a great source of information. Apparently they had an ex in common and they had just broken up and followed to give me a list of reasons why he was such a nice guy and a potentially a great boyfriend. TL is always trying to match people. Last week he told me he thinks he’ll be my next boyfriend!

So I pretended I randomly recognised him on TL’s list of Facebook friends and sent him a message asking if he was in badminton that weekend. From there followed quite a few messages.

We finally agreed to have coffee earlier this week. We met in Soho and after a bit of chatting X – how I will call him – mentioned he was hungry so we decided to go to a restaurant. He suggested a good one near Euston where they prepare food from his region (Sichuan) so we went there.

We had a nice evening chatting about all sorts of things. X seems like a really nice guy just like TL said. I may even be invited to a dinner party he is thinking of organising.

I will see him again this weekend for badminton. I do have the suspicion this won’t go beyond friendship, but if that’s the case I’ll be lucky to have a nice new friend.