Our Story
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Ending a two year relationship, I was destroyed, heartbroken, the lowest I have ever been in life. I tried to find “mr.right” once again after a few painful months. Boys came and went, woahed me then turned into someone different. October 8th, homecoming night, I left my date and went to spend the night with my boys “the crew” in order to pick my mood back up. Little did I know, that night turned a hopeless girl beyond happy.
We met my sophomore year, his junior year, in high school through my boyfriend at the time, ex boyfriend now. We said hello and waved casually in the hallways. Senior year, I never saw him until the following October when our relationship finally blossomed. I mean come on, who would not adore a boy who stays up with you until five in the morning talking and watching Disney movies! Going back to school only two days later, we kept in contact for a few weeks. He came home once more to spend the night with me and watch movies. But not too long after, like before, our relationship vanished. It was hard for me to connect with someone who was so far away and consumed in the “college life”. During Thanksgiving break we saw each other briefly with the crew. We talked on and off from the end of November to the beginning of December as friends nothing special, potential second hook up. The start of Christmas break was great. We hung with our friends and we talked more and more. Talking turned into flirting. We held hands, danced, messed around, just fun and games. Flirting turned into feelings, and now feelings led to a relationship. We spent all of Christmas break together and we knew by the second week that this time would be different from the first time. With how much our feelings grew in just a span of three weeks we knew this was gonna turn into something more.
Him being in college, 77 miles away definitely was an issue. Unsure of how we would be as a couple and in our first “long” distance relationship” was a big question. Neither one of us being in a long distance relationship before made us leave our relationship status as pending when we returned to school. Though it is hard, we got through. Our parents and friends are supportive (except for my ex boyfriend of course) but we couldn’t be happier. Though we may not have talked every single day, our feelings were/are strong and we know how much we care for each other and miss one another.
Colin came home Thursday, February 9th, night from college after his last class at 6pm. He showed up at my house nearly an hour or so later. Running to the door and whipping it open, he flew into my house and scooped me up. My heart was racing like never before, I had never been so happy to see him. We watched a movie until I had to get to bed considering I had school the next day. We did the same Friday night before my best friend came over. That Saturday he took me out on our first official date. He took me to go see The Vow because he remembered me talking about it the week before. The movie was great and I had such a great time spending the night with him. After the movie he told me he had a surprise for me. As we drove around he asked me to close my eyes. Kinda skeptical of where he was talking me, I did what I was told. After driving for what seemed like forever he stopped the car and told me to wait where I was. He guided me out of the car and picked me up and walked me over to what sounded like a waterfall; let me remind you my eyes are still closed. He placed me down and told me to open my eyes. He brought me to a little gazebo off the resoviour in front of a fountain in the water. Though the original plan of glow stick reading out “date me” on the gazebo floor got messed up, he officially asked me to be his girlfriend after weeks of unofficially dating, or as I call it “serious talking”.
He left to go back to school only a few hours later…. well, that’s what he had told.
He told me on the morning of my birthday, February 13th, our friends would have a surprise for me for my birthday from him. Our best friend called me at 6:30 am EST that he was at my house with my surprise. I opened the door to see my friend holding a pooh bear pillow pet. I opened the door to give him a hug and thank him. As I turned around to go inside, I see Colin on the side of my porch with a big smile on his face with a bow around his neck. My birthday surprise was my boyfriend. Originally he told me he had left to go back to school at 5 pm the night before, but he stayed until that afternoon to see me for my birthday.
He fixed my destroyed heart, picked me up out of my depression, and suppressed my anxiety. He holds me tight and sings to me when I am having an attack which calms me down almost immediately which no one has ever been able to do before. He makes me feel like a princess whether he is standing next to me or miles away telling me how much he misses me. Yes we may argue but that is what makes us a healthy couple. We show eachother how much we miss eachother and just want to be near eachother to kiss and make up. He is cute, intelligent, and we clicked rather quickly. He is amazing and I couldn’t ask for anyone better. He is everything I could have asked for and more. After only a few weeks of talking and three weeks of being away from each other, we were a couple. Our feelings are growing stronger and stronger each day even if we only talk for a little. We are looking forward to seeing where our relationship goes from here. As of August 2012 we will only be an hour away from each other which I am looking forward to greatly. I am happy to call him my boyfriend.
