a dominican
one slightly smaller than me
broke my heart todayIt's been almost a year since I last saw
My Size Dominican, he walked away from me with my friend Liza, tears in his eyes. I walked the other way with Andre by my side, feeling an empty space within me. One would wonder,
"If you both felt this emotional connection, what happened?" Well, distance and time happened, but it wasn't always like that.
I met My Size Dominican on
migente.com, an online community reserved for Latinos and Hispanics, but infiltrated by people of all races and creeds. Online has never been a replacement for human activity, but some of the people I've met there I now consider really close friends. My Size Dominican was one of those people. We began the typical online bullshit, sending messages back and forth, hanging out in the chat room and just day to day updates of how things were going, me in Ithaca and him in Long Island. I was a Senior in College, he was a Junior in High School. He was of age, however because he came from a campo near
San Jose de las Matas, Dominican Republic, he had some catching up to do.
After some time of talking on the internet I was about to have My Size Dominican in front of me. He took the bus from the City to Ithaca for the weekend. This was just the first of many bus rides to come. It was during these weekend visits from My Size Dominican that he became what seemed to be a permanent fixation in my life. We shared everything with each other, and I won't lie, I looked forward to his visits because with over 6000 people on campus, there was nobody quite like him.
With My Size Dominican it was more than
SEX, granted he was a first for me in many aspects, but he met my friends, was invited to our parties, I would think about him when he wasn't around, he meant something - something significant. I knew he felt something too, otherwise why would anyone in their right mind travel
6 hours by bus for sex when you lived in New York?
The dynamic of our relationship changed when I graduated in May because I was no longer living a nice bus trip away. My family relocated from Rhode Island to Florida, so now I would see My Size Dominican when I went to New York - if he could find the time off from the Bodega. That brings us back to that day with My Size Dominican in tears - the only day I saw him since I graduated. It's not like I didn't try to see him, it's just the cruel reality of life - bringing two people together, only to watch them suffer as they're torn apart.
Karma is a bitch, I know that now. As My Size Dominican felt the pain and sadness of leaving me in tears, my turn was bound to come, and it did Friday night.Friday began much like any other, me getting lost in Manhattan, meeting up with people and shopping to get things required to look cute in the club. Today I met up with
Medina = Citi and his personal shopper to discuss the drama of Deceit, a week-long novela starring me and the closest of my friends. That is an entry in itself, but none the less important in our series of events. After I left Medina=Citi inside the shoe department of Macy's Herold Sq. I met up with
The King of Spain. The King of Spain and I began our day of shopping at
Bloomingdale's on 59th and Lexington where we met Rachel of 2xist and got some lunch at
41 Carrots, one of the cafes inside Bloomingdale's. From there we each picked up a pair of sneakers and then made our way to
Brooklyn.
On the way back to
Calle Cincuenta y Seis, The King of Spain and I stopped at the Mexican barber shop and I got shaved up nice, let me tell you, I was lookin fresh. She cleaned me up and we got back to the apartment. It was there where we all prepared for what was to be a nice night out at
Krash.
Andrelaso looked cute in my paint splotched jeans, The King of Spain in his polo and me in a Black 2xist square cut and black pants. On the way to the train, we stopped over at
JUrb's house to say hello and he completed my setup with a white hat. I was definately lookin' cute.
We met up with Medina = Citi at the club and proceeded to get our club on. As I was sipping a
Cosmopolitan at the bar, yes I know it's a
bitch drink but they're pretty good, I thought I saw My Size Dominican. Of course I shrugged it off, he is only 20, so it couldn't have been him. I continued down the stairs to the other bar where my friends were at, and finished my drink. Andrelaso looks and says to me
"Isn't that My Size Dominican?" That was the beginning of the end.
I shouted out his name and followed him up the stairs, and sure enough, it
was My Size Dominican. He said, "
I'll be right back." He never came. Two shots of
Patron later I'm making the worst decision of the night and traded the
AMEX Platinum for a bottle of Moet and an ice bucket. I forgot the most important fact, the one that gives the entire story significance. My Size Dominican is there
WITH HIS MAN.
We knew he had a man. He told us. But actually being passed up for his man, downright ignored after everything we had together, it hurt too much and I needed to forget about it extremely quick. What most might not realise is that this demonstration of hurt and sadness is almost contrary to my entire being. Never do I experiance emotion like this. So bottle of Moet in hand I began to drink... and drink... and drink.
The King of Spain was not happy with this at all. He saw how I felt for My Size Dominican and it made him feel hurt as well because The King of Spain had feelings for
Chulo. That and he didn't like how I immediately ran for the bottle to solve my problems. Halfway thru the bottle I began to cry...
publicly. I did manage to finish the bottle before I left the club. Spectators of this scene say I followed My Size Dominican all night, but my feelings say I just wanted to get away from him. I do remember him sitting next to me at one point in the evening, but I don't remember if I sat next to him or him next to me. By that time in the evening it didn't really matter, all I could do was cry and sip my bottle.
I don't remember how the evening ended, I do know that The King of Spain made it home ok, I managed to fall in the street, curse out someone who worked at Delta on the phone and be sick in the subway. All in all I was a horrible mess. I don't know what happened to Medina = Citi, but I'm sure he made it to where ever he was going to next.
Suavemente gave me the Mas Flow 2 CD and it has a song on there that pretty much sums up my feelings right now for My Size Dominican, and of course Baby Ranks sings the part. I seem to be drawn to Baby Ranks, I dunno why.
verme... no quieres mas...
y tal vez... te arrepentiras...
no se... seras tu quien perderas...
seras tu... tu lo sabes...This ends the first post... Hopefully I won't get bored with this before I make post two...