/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Last semester I joined a cosplay club at a local college that I plan on transferring to and started to make friends with some people there. Right at the end of the semester, the club hosts a small one day minicon and if you volunteered you got your badge for free, so I decided to volunteer for staff. I was in charge of watching the door/checking badges for some of the panels/events and was talking to this one guy who was hosting a very casual mixer-type panel (me at conventions is a LOT more outgoing than me normally). I ended up seeing him other times throughout the day and at the after party and we talked and joked like we'd been friends forever. Over break, a lot of the members (including my main friend group, which also included him) stayed in contact in group chat and now that the new semester has started we all hang out and talk pretty regularly. Me and the one guy talk one on one more and we both have a lot in common.

A few weeks ago, I'm talking to one of my other friends who goes to the same school as me and I get a message from him asking me if I wanted to hang out with him some time and my mind immediately goes "Wait. What does he mean by this?" I had a con that week and was pretty pressed for time so I ended up not following through on the date until last week, and at the end he told me he liked me.

Since then, we've been on a few dates and our mutual friends apparently all saw it coming and honestly? I've never been so happy about a relationship in my life. I've posted in a thread about my shitty ex back when we were dating months ago, and he was the type where we didn't have a whole lot in common and no shared friends (or any friends, we were both each other's only friends for a while and he hated all my friends to the point where I never saw them). It's been just a week so idk what to call us, but I'm having fun and I'm very happy!