This hw topic hits home for me, because its such a relevant story to how my life is the way it is now. Its a little long, but its my favorite love story, because its MY love story
So thank you @rambo @missy @lyxzen for the awesome idea for a blog!
So it starts out with me as a young (i think about 15) girl. I had my first summer job that became a weekend job during the school yeah. I worked at a tack and feed store and also acted as their house keeper, as their house was on the same property. So one day im minding my own business cleaning the tack room, when this silly young boy pops his head around the doorway and say "hi there!" Startled i look back and see the new ranch hand standing in the doorway with a smile on his face. So i kindly said hello and we started talking. After a few minutes, we found out we were actually going to the same high school, and that he just moved here from Louisianan and didn't know anyone. Me being the social butterfly i was, excitedly said "oh well ill introduce you to all my friends"! and as we finished our conversation, he went to go about his work, he peeked his head back through the doorway and said "by the way, I think your really hot" I blushed and laughed a little (thinking in my head i also thought he was really cute)
So the next school day i took him around and had him meet everyone i knew, and from that point on we were inseparable when we were around each other. I dont remember how we actually started dating because it happened so fast, but i just remember being absolutely, head over heels in love with this boy. I remember our first kiss like it was yesterday, we were in drama class, and there was an area in the multi purpose room that was like a built in box at the end of the room for the chairs to go into, and they had put a couch up there. he was laying on the couch with my head in his lap and he looked down at me and said, "have i told you how much i love you yet today?" This shocked me a little as he hadn't said i love you to me yet, and i said "no, you haven't" with a smile. So he leaned down and said, "well i love you more then anything" and we had our first kiss (which i later found out i was actually his first girlfriend and first kiss ever)
A few weeks go by and we are just infatuated with each other, spending every moment we could at school together, because we lived on opposite sides of town. One day during lunch he tells me he isn't coming to school tomorrow because he has to go to this court date. I sadly agreed and he looked me dead in the eyes and held my hand as he said, "dont worry baby ill see you the next day i promise" Little did i know that wasn't true. What i didn't know is that he actual came to California with his half sisters without his mothers permission and the court date was for a custody battle. So the next day i go to school and have a normal day, just without him there. Until i get a call during my after school drama club meeting. I couldn't answer it because we were having a meeting so i let it go to voicemail. A little later i go outside and start to listen to the voicemail, as it plays this feeling of overwhelming sadness sweeps my entire body and i fall to the ground sobbing. He was gone. He called to tell me his mother won and he was on his way to the airport to go back to Louisiana. I felt like i was going to die. I literally felt like someone took a piece of my heart and just ripped it straight out, it was the most painful thing (love wise) that has ever happened to me.
After several weeks, we were still writing, i sent him videos and pictures in the mail. We emailed at least once a day. But like a lot of long distance relationships, especially at such a young age, it just didn't work. We always stayed in touch, and we tried to be together long distance several times, with it always ending the same.
years pass, and we slowly drift apart. Still talking every now and then, but nothing like the old days. Until one year out of the blue, he emails me and tells me this horrible break up story, and how he was living in Alaska under a bridge! Well i just couldn't stand for that! I will always love that man, and weather we were actually together or just friends, he needed help and i was able to give it. So i told him to come to California and live with my boyfriend at the time and me (not as weird as it seems, as we were all great friends in high school) Needless to say he sold his car and moved to Cali. It was really hard, because just because your with someone doesn't mean you cant love someone else, and that was the case here. I put myself in a love triangle, which was emotionally horrible for me, but i wouldn't chance it for the world, because i wouldn't have had that time with him that i so longed for, for years. Things ended up not working out with him in Cali anyway, because it was very hard to him to ind work. So he decided it would be best to just live with his mom in Tennessee. I was again heartbroken, i was at the end of my current relationship and felt like i was losing the love of my life for the second time. My heart was broken.
several years again pass, we lost contact because it was just to hard. Until out of the blue he contacts me on Instagram. He is doing well and living in Florida, has a great job and a nice house. I said "wow your doing so well...soo, you have a girlfriend then?" He said "naw" i said "well, why not?" his response was "because the only girl i ever want is you" My heart sank. i didn't think he still loved me! After that we decided since we were both older and in better places we could give us a go again, for real this time. after several months of talking, and him coming to visit me in California, we decided that i was going to move in with him in Florida. It was scary (as I've never even lived outside my county before) but i was so very excited! he texts me one day after our decision and says that he quit his job and he is coming to me instead!! I was so overwhelmed with happiness!
Needless to say we lived in California for a year or so together, then decided to travel back to Florida and start our own life together. We are going strong and amazingly happy still after almost 2 consecutive years of being together. I still and always will love this man more then anything in the world. He is my king, my love, and my most precious friend ever, and im not losing him this time!!
And that is my love story
My HAPPILY EVER AFTER
