When it's a friend you need, let it be me.

He sat next to me.

I went to the Christian group again on Wednesday, and he sat next to me. I sat next to my friend, and after he had gotten up to do the second round of music, he sat next to me, not where he was sitting before. He had this purple pick in his mouth, and dropped it, then smiled at me. Then he put it in his keychain.

After the sermon, I asked if I could help pack anything up, and he said no, but I could help carry stuff back. So I helped my friend pack up her violin. Later, as I was talking to my friend, he came by and handed me his bass guitar. So I put it on, and said something about how I had no idea how to play it. So he showed me a little bit. After I had been playing for a bit, I complained as to how the strings hurt my fingers. I showed him my fingers, and he held my hand! It was so exciting at the moment. How cliche, the guy teaching me how to play his guitar. Then he played it a bit, and I tried to listen, but you can't hear a bass guitar without an amp. So he turned around in hopes of the acoustics being more favorable. Well, I still could hardly hear it, but that's not the point.

At this point, I talked to some other people, waiting to help carry equipment. When we started walking back, we talked about some random things, nothing too heavy or interesting. Although I did find out that he'll be living in the same building, on the same floor, as me next year. That's really good. I dropped off the hand drum I was carrying in his room, met his roommate, and then we left (he was bringing something up to his friend on the fourth floor). I suggested that we needed to plan a time to "hang out", and he said maybe finals week : ( I hope that wasn't a way of putting it off. Maybe he decided he wasn't interested. I won't bring it up again, just in case.

Otherwise, I just realized how many guy friends I have. It's ridiculous. Just in this week, I've had meaningful conversations with three guys that are at least five years older than me. It just happens that way. I talked to John, and he's been having some difficulties with faith. I'm really worried about him. Then I talked to my friend Mike about it. He's really nice as well- a lot more liberal than most of the people in Christian Philosopher's Society.