Mr. Lust in the past vs. Mr. Lust in the present

"Can't you see baby life is knocking right at your door?"

When I first met Mr. Lust I hated him.
HATED HIM.
Once in my life I've kneed someone in the balls, and once in my life I've slapped someone across the face in public.
Luckily, his was the latter.
Right after I met him, I discarded him as being anything other than a friend.
He explains things to much.
He is slow with telling a story giving too much detail.
He tells stories that aren't appropriate for the situation.
He has women constantly hitting on him because of his physical appearance and he obviously enjoys it.
Totally not my type.
He looked at me oppositely.
He regarded me highly and found me beautiful.
He tried to get my attention, to tell me a story.
I was dating NG at the time and had no time for someone who I disliked, so I ignored him.
He pinched the back of my arm to get my attention.
He thought it was lightly, but it left a red welt on my arm.
In anger, I slapped him right across the face and stormed off to the bathroom.
He told a mutual friend of ours that he absolutely hated me.
I said the same about him.

"Got a talented face and a suit case."

A month later he was at a party of our mutual friend.
He approached me and said, "Let's not hate each other, the least we can do is apologize to each other and be civil."
I agreed, and we stone-faced apologized to each other.
We walked away from each other with high dislike of the other.

"Shackles on your hand seems to disappear"

A month (maybe two) after that I saw him at our mutual friend's house again.
At this point RHM and ID had watched me put the "stamp of disaster"** on my relationship and both gave NG and I a month (maybe two) left on our relationship.
NG was extremely jealous of Mr. Lust.
AKA, with QSW's "stamp of disaster" she felt nice towards Mr. Lust just because it would make NG upset.
Mr. Lust was telling a funny story about his travels to China and QSW found herself actually listening and enjoying the story.
Mr. Lust and QSW walked away from the party that evening drunk (separate) and happy with each other for the first time.

"Don't give up, Don't give up."

Mr. Lust started appearing more and more at the mutual friend's house.
So did QSW.
Mutual friend rolled his eyes a lot.
Mr. Lust asked QSW out.
QSW refused because she hadn't officially ended it with NG.
NG was practically non-existent.
So she agreed to "hang out" with Mr. Lust more and more.
Finally NG ended it and she immediately went on a date with Mr. Lust.


Now she works at a bar that NG comes into every time he's WASTED and asks her how "MR LUST" is, only he says it obviously with disdain and with a bad taste in his mouth.

Confusing since he was the one who did the cheating.

** "Stamp of disaster" is when I decided in my head that it's not going to work out between myself and another. I don't admit this to myself or to anyone else, in fact, other than my close friends no one would know that I do this. Apparently, the "stamp" is only visible through body language and exasperated noises made when the significant other is called into the conversation. When the "stamp" hits, its only a matter of time before my heart suddenly realizes the same thing my head did.