Intuition, Serendipitous Timing & Parking Meters

Well, 'the one who disappeared' reappeared via text last night.  Never thought that would happen.

Here's what happened...
I went to a birthday party at a trendy bar by myself. 

My intuition kept telling me that 'he who disappeared' would be there. 

It got to the point that I even thought I saw him a couple times.  What's weird is that he even came up in a conversation I had with a friend earlier in the night at a coffee shop.

As I was leaving the party, a guy that I know from high school, Bob, was just getting to the party.  I stopped to talk to him - we haven't caught up in almost a year. 

Out of nowhere, he asked me: 'Are you dating 'he who shall not be named'? (using that instead of his name, just like Voldemort) My heart started racing, and I was super awkward and said 'No.  How did you know we dated?  And we dated for two months almost a year ago.'  I quickly left the party - I had to get to my parking meter (and wanted to get out of there!).

When I was driving home, I thought to myself, 'Why does he keep coming up?!  I am SO done talking about him.  SO SO done. F*ck it.  I'm over it.  I surrender.  I'm just so done talking about him.'

I texted Bob to apologize about being weird about the dating question.

And what I thought was a response from Bob turned out to be a text from The One Who Disappeared!!!

The One Who Disappeared: I hear you're dating me :)
Me: I heard that too.
The One Who Disappeared: He's great - congrats
Me: That's also what I heard tonight.
The One Who Disappeared: Missed you at Bungalow
Me: Timing is everything.

And that was it.  Gone again.  WTF?!  Why bother texting me at all?!

I don't know the last time I've had such a visceral reaction to receiving a text.  It was CRAZY and terrible!!!  I got super hot, flushed, heart racing, my hands were shaking.  It was f*cked.

And even crazier?  Our first date was Dec 27th of last year and he texted me on Dec 27th of this year. 
And even crazier?!  I had finally made the decision to be done with him minutes before he texted.
And even crazier?!?  Bob hadn't seen him in ages and didn't know he'd be at the party either.

For some reason, the Universe has had him 'randomly' pop up in conversation from unexpected places all year.

Thank God for parking meters; otherwise, I would have still been at the bar when he got there. 

And I'm grateful my intuition told me that he would somehow pop up.  It made his text less of a surprise.  Funny - I almost deleted his number 2 weeks ago.

I'm feeling a little bummed that he popped back up like this, but I know there's a reason. 

Just letting go & trusting the Universe.