I knew it would happen one day. . .

10.28.01 David and I had only be toying with the idea of getting together, nothing serious. My friend Erin was throwing a combined birthday/birthday/halloween party for two of our close friends, Ryan and Jason. David and I had spend the last couple of mornings laying on the floor of my family room watching music videos on MTV due to stardardized testing that the sophomores had to take part in, we had late starts. We were starting to get pretty fond of each other, we had shared a first kiss already and I thought it was heavenly. I didnt know how he felt, but I definently knew there was a connection. On October 28th David and Nathan showed up at the party. While all of the festivities were taking place inside of the house, David and I snuck out to his truck. We spent the night making out and listening to music.

c. 01.03.02 I had gone to visit my family in Ohio for Christmas and for my Uncles wedding. Two days into the trip there and I was getting some bad information from Alissa. It made me nervous to even think about what she was saying but she told me her and David had been talking. She told me that he was thinking about getting serious with Alia, one of his best friends. She told me he was gonna cut ties with me. In order to avoid being the dumpee, I wrote David an email telling him that maybe we should just be friends. He wrote me one back saying he agreed. I tried to tell myself I was ok with this. I tried to tell myself that I wasnt attatched. I tried to tell myself that he didnt mean anything to me. That lasted for almost a whole day. Twelve hours later, I was a wreck, I spend hours on the phone with Erin telling her how upset I was and how I hated Alia. I told her that they werent even right for each other, I told Erin David and I were suppose to be together, but if he thought he was gonna be happy with her then I would let him be happy with her. I spent the rest of my trip to Ohio sulking around the house and crying in the shower. I was miserable. When we got home and school started I talked myself into being strong and not letting on that I was upset. I however made an effort to be seen by him. I made sure I looked hot every morning I knew I would see him. I wore the cutest outfits and I fixed my hair. None of it seemed to be working.

01.18.02 Less than eight teen days later David and I already talked online about how much he missed me, and about how much I missed him. I had visited him at his house, we were starting to hang out again, I was feeling good about this. On the 18th we had a party, David showed up, with his friend Nathan, to the party and he was a little tipsy. We spend most of the night making out and in his drunken stupor, he said it to me for the first time, "I love you". I knew right then that all those connective feelings from early were serious. I knew that I loved him back. From that moment on we were practically inseparable.

01.21.02 David skipped work and came over to my house that morning. We were laying in my bed talking and David asked me if we were gonna go ahead and make this official. I did the only thing I could to, nodded. We were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. I couldnt wait to tell everybody. The problem was everybody could wait to hear it. The news of our union fell on some unhappy ears. There were quite a few people who were not as pleased as I was but they couldnt keep me down. I was happy. I knew that our relationship was serious and that it meant something and no one was gonna bring me down from that wonderful high, not for the lack of trying though. I was threatened, I was called names, I was glared at, there were rumors, there were lies and there was an awful lot of deceit but I kept with David and I was determined to be happy. I knew it would last.

01.21.03 David and I celebrated our one year anniversary together

01.21.04 David and I went for two years and were still truckin.

01.21.05 David and I went out and celebrated three blissful years together and the only thing I could think about were all the naysayers, all the people who threatened me, all the people who stopped being my friends, all the people who said behind our backs it wouldnt last. Only if they could see us now. We made it three years, the subject of what we should name our kids had come up more than once. We were still in love with each other as much as we were the first time he said I love you.

12.24.05 We came home from Christmas eve obligations at Davids parents house. We had spent the day over there hanging out and helping with cooking. We came home around five so we could rest a little, spend some time alone and make it over to more parental obligations at my parents house at six. I was in the back of the house when David called for me to come into the family room. Sitting on the ottoman in front of the Christmas tree was an average sized box. David said to me "Santa came early". I asked him if he wanted me to open my present now. He nodded his head. I was reluctant but told him that if I opened my present now, that he could open one of his. He agreed to this and urged me to open the package. Underneath the red wrapping paper was a box from a cookie company in California. He told me to open the box and see what was inside. I opened the box and sitting inside was a giant fortune cookie. I smiled, it had chocolate and toffee and caramel all over it, "Do you get to pick what the fortune says" I asked him. He told me no, but that it did have a fortune and I needed to open in. I took it into the kitchen so that I wouldnt get crumbs all over the place. David handed me a plate to break the cookie over and I split the thing in two. I reached in a pulled out the oversized fortune. I was facing the counter and as I unfolded the fortune the words "Will you marry me?" popped off the page and nearly knocked me out. I whipped around to find David down on one knee behind me. I welled up a little. In his had he had a ring box with a diamond ring, meant for my finger, sitting in it. I gasped a little and called him a jerk. I had no idea, I was so surprised the only thing I could think of was you jerk, you pulled it off, I had no idea it was gonna happen like that or at that moment. I of couse told the man yes and he put the ring on my finger.

I am now engaged to be married to the one man that I truly want to spend the rest of my life with. The last four years have been a breeze and I cant wait for the rest of our lives.