Name: Audrey Elciem
Alias: Yes
AKA: Elciem, Ellie, Juri
Type: INFP
Born: 1978
Base of Operations: Houston, TX
Occupation: Personal secretary
Short Version: Love interest from November 2000 to October 2001.
Long Version:
The first time I saw Audrey was at Akon 1999. I didn't actually meet her, but when I saw her she immediately grabbed my attention. I couldn't tell if she was someone that I knew or someone that I really wanted to know, but I knew she was one or the other. I also met Jessica that weekend and so nothing came of it. I knew that she went to the University of Houston (she was hanging with the UH anime club) and kept an eye out for her whenever I saw a redhead there.

Some time later my relationship with Anna was on the rocks. I was looking to make new friends on a site called College Club and saw a profile that spoke to me. Like me, she only had the "friend" option checked. I figured it was safe and wrote her an email. Looking back, it was insanely personal for someone that I'd just met. That wasn't my style, but it seemed right with her. It took her a couple of days to respond to the first email. We shot back emails back and forth at the rate of four or so a piece per day. It turned out that an acquaintance of mine was her best friend and that she was the girl in the Juri costume at Akon and that we were born an hour apart.

It also turned out that we both had the "friend" option checked because we were both in relationships. It also also turned out that we were both in relationships we were making preparations to get out of.

When we were both finally single we made plans to go to a party that her step-mother was throwing. At the last minute I cancelled. It didn't matter because we were going to see each other the next day. Except that night an ex-boyfriend named Michael showed up and everything changed. I didn't hear from her for a couple of days. When I did, everything was different. I could read the writing on the wall but she was denying that it was there. I was on winter break from school and the days turned into centuries as I watched the phone never ring and the emailbox remain empty.

Things eventually died out as she decided that she was forever meant to be with Michael. I could see that she was making a tremendous mistake. No only in passing up someone as wonderful as me, but I knew what Michael was going to do. She denied it, but she'd also denied that Michael was going to be her choice. I was right and she was wrong both times. Michael sent her into a whirlwind of emotional turmoil. We later reconciled.

As things had happened with Audrey and Michael, they would also be with Audrey and me. From the outside looking in, I could see what was going to happen. In fact, I actually told people that was most likely what was going to happen again. Audrey again assured me that it wasn't and for a while it looked like she was right. Despite the arguments, horrible yelling and worse silence, things were improving. But there were three sides to her. There was the Audrey that would show up late, the Audrey that couldn't make it but would call, and the Audrey that never called and never showed up. Each seemed to possess her a third of the time. The third Audrey made it impossible for me to enjoy the time with the first one.

Things had grown stagnant (again). When I confronted her about it, she told me that she wasn't going anywhere. It was true enough because there was nowhere for her to go. She and I had made plans to get together on the weekend of 9/14/01, but at the last minute she decided she was going to go visit relatives instead. I made plans for Austin. One day before her scheduled departure, terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Her trip was cancelled. I decided that I wasn't going to cancel my trip to Austin and left anyway.

Michael's predecessor in her life, a boy named Vince, called her while I was gone. For some reason, a terrorist act involving the deaths of thousands made him think of her. They got together that weekend and when I got back from Austin, everything had changed again. This time I just didn't know it. She was seeing both of us and her previously improving attendence record was starting to dip again. When she failed to show up on a date that we'd planned over a month in advance, and when she failed to call, I had finally reached my limit.

She convinced me to give it one last chance. I agreed to, but it was going to be different. Her attendence record improved, but it was already not enough. Maybe I was already starting to figure out what was going on with Vince, but mostly I had raised my expectations higher than she was planning to deliver. Then out of nowhere I started really thinking about the Vince situation. The thought had occured to me that I hadn't even asked her if anything was going on.

So I did and she told me that while nothing had happened, she was trying to figure out what she wanted. That was the last last last last straw. I'd threatened to leave before, but she'd always fought to keep me. She tried to calm things down but I was finally unwavering. We had a showdown in the Target parking lot on the northside. The fight lasted for six hours. It was the longest amount of uninterrupted alone time we'd ever had together.

She and Vince promptly got together afterwards. While Vince was thankfully no Michael, things didn't work out. There were real problems about six months in, but she held it together for another six months. She and I did not see each other much during this period. We touched base again when she and Vince were in their final days. I was going through some issues of my own at the time. Shortly before or after that, she ended up getting together with Ed, a friend of mine and her best friend since high school. They've been together since.