How We Met

Hmmm...lets see. The first time I saw my husband was during a track practice, Freshman year of high school. He was telling a story about his girlfriend at the time and the way he told the story was so funny. That’s the first thing I remember about him. He could make me laugh. But I thought I didn’t have a chance because he had a girlfriend so I let it go even though I thought he was really cute. A couple months later I got my first job at Burger King. I was so excited to have my first job and I worked so hard. Then about a week after I started I heard we hired someone one new. So the next day I came in for work and saw that cute guy from track practice behind the counter making burgers. I couldn’t believe my luck. So for the next few weeks I talked to him a little and tried to act cool. Which was probably a big epic fail because I wasn’t nearly as cool as I thought I was but he seemed to like it. :) Then we started talking more and he was just so funny and that was one of the main things I liked about him. I started talking to another girl that worked there with us and she told me to go for it. Little did I know that she had been telling him the same things. (Apparently he felt a little weird dating a girl a year younger than him.) So a couple nights later, there was something going on at the bar across the street from where we worked and there were a lot of bikers there so I saw it as a perfect opportunity to play the damsel in distress part and convince him to give me a ride home. (He still doesn’t believe that I planned it out like this. He thinks I was really scared of those bikers. LOL) So, he took his break when I got off work and he gave me a ride home. About half way there, he asked what I was doing the next night. I was SO excited cuz I knew what he was about to ask but I played it cool and said I had to work. I'll never forget what he said. "Well do you think that maybe, after your done working, you would want to go see a movie with me or something. Maybe?" lol He was so nervous and cute. I said I would love to and told him that the new Pirates movie was playing at the drive-in. So we made plans to go. After he dropped me off I was so excited that I ran down the street to my best friends house. The next day, some people didn’t show up for work and the boss called Matt in. And he promised him extra time off to take me to fair if he came into work and I look back now and think "Did my boss seriously get me a second date with a guy I hadn’t even been out with once yet?" lol But he came into work and then when we were both done with work we headed over to the drive-in. (Now this next part was totally my fault but he went with it.) We got to the drive in and Garfield 2 was playing not Pirates. (I read the wrong sign) So we sat in his jeep and made fun of that ridiculous movie the entire time and I think that was more fun that just watching a movie. So, the next day at work we didn’t really say much to each other for the first part of the day and all I could think was that I had totally screwed that one up. So finally I got up the nerve to talk to him and I cornered him by the sink so he couldn’t run away and I asked him if maybe he wanted to go out again. He then told me that he was grounded and he had to beg his dad to let him go out with me the night before. (Who asks someone out when they are grounded?!?) So, I left for diabetic camp for a few days and when I got back he told me that he missed me. Which I thought was weird cuz we had only been on one date and he had declined my offer for a second date. I didn’t really know what to say so I just walked away. he found me later and asked if we were like a couple now. I didn’t really know the answer to that question so I just shrugged my shoulders and asked him if he wanted to be and he said yes. We've been together ever since. On July 15th, it will be five years. It amazes me that it has been so long and I cant believe how quickly I fell in love with him. I always hate when I hear people say that teenagers cant really fall in love because I know they're wrong. I love him more today then I did then. After we had been together for a month, someone said he should get me a present and he said that they only reason you should celebrate a one month anniversary is if you only plan on being together for a month and a half. That’s when I knew it was serious. He told me one time that after we had been together for a week he was talking about me to some of the people that we worked with and they said, "Holy shit, you're totally in love with her." and even though he never admitted it to them, he told me that it was at that moment that he realized he loved me. <3