Would it be okay to date his neighbor?

[Country_Girl]

Okay,

 

So, dated a guy for 3 weeks, he broke up with me a week ago, and he does not want to work things out. I work in this cute little downtown area that has a lot of lofts/apartments along the strip with stores all around.

 

It's really weird how this situation all came about. For identity purposes, let's call my former boyfriend (if you can even call him that) "X" and the neighbor that lives below him, "S". On my first date with "X", we were having lunch at a cafe on the patio, when "S" happens to be walking his dogs by us, "X" introduces us. They chat a little for 5 minutes or so. "X" asks me what I am doing after work, I said nothing, so he suggested we grab coffee. So we meet up when I am off work, and go to the coffee shop which happens to be closing. There, we happen to run into "S" who just happens to be designing a website and doing photography for the coffee place. "X" invites "S" with us to grab coffee across the street since the place is closing. So "S" joined us, and we just all chatted for an hour or so.

 

We ended up running into him again the next day. "X" even said to me, "S" 'seemed to be interested in you the other night'. The day after that I was walking to a restaurant down the road to meet up with a friend, and sure enough, "S" and I cross paths, we only chatted for like 5 minutes since I was running late. I told "X" that I ran into "S" and he commented how he has never ran into him so much in his life as he has recently with me. I'm a big believer in fate, and I did wonder if I was meant to meet this guy, for what purpose, who knows.

 

Few days later, me and "X" are supposed to meet at a local bar, and he texts me that he will be 2 hours late. I say okay, I'll just chill there, order a drink and wait then. I walk in, and sure enough "S" is sitting there at the bar. He was with a chick, so I didn't want to intrude, so I said hi but didn't interject his conversation. I later found out she is just a friend, but he's kind of interested in her. When she left we started chatting, and had a good time. We started people watching, observing couples, making up stories about them and trying to guess about their lives. I felt really guilty, but at one point I thought to myself, "What am I doing with X, we don't have anything in common, but look at S, we have so many common hobbies". But I brushed that feeling aside.

 

Well it's been a week since the split, and leaving work today, I run into "S". I told him his boy broke up with me, he said yeah he hasn't seen me around and asked what happened, so I gave him the short version. We only talked for like 5 minutes, as I had to go catch a bus. He asked twice if I was okay, I said yeah and asked why, he said I seemed bummed. I wasn't, if anything I was just tired from work. He told me he thought "X" wasn't over his ex wife and that any girl he dates he seems to just break up with randomly. I had to get running, so I told "S" I will see him around.

 

I just feel like the universe is just throwing this guy in my face, like we were supposed to meet for some purpose. Be it friendship, dating, or whatever. Would it be wrong of me to get this guys number, and hang out with him at the least? I'm not doing it to scorn X at all, and X will be moving in the next 30 days because he wants to live downtown...so I just wouldn't hang out at this guys place out of respect for the next month. What do you think?