43 minutes from now
And it would have been 2 years.
Two years ago, i sat in my car with Chris, looked at him, started the car..
I paused for a minute, and then told him "Dude, i want to be with her. I want her to be my girlfriend. I can't stop thinking about her, and how happy we could be" -- I was immediately cut off by Chris, who blurted out "Then go ask her out!"
I immediately jammed the keys back into the off position, and skipped up to the porch. Beaming. So ecstatic, as if i could hear any news in the world right then and it wouldn't phase me one way or the other.
I knocked on the door, Shannon came back out, and she looked confused. I immediately reached out and took both of her hands in mine, and pulled her outside her doorstep, looking nervously at my feet, and at the pot of flowers nearby as I assembled some words.
"I really like you, and I really like spending time with you. I think we get along really well, and I want you to be my girlfriend. I want to be your boyfriend Shannon."
I don't even remember her exact words back, but it was a laugh and a yes along with whatever she decided to say. I remember that feeling.
SO well.
37 minutes from now, and it will have been two years since that amazing and refreshing night. Since my new beginning. A clean slate, and a gamble at love after having been in love.
I don't think it will ever be that easy ever again.
It wasn't supposed to end, without reason and without warning.
It certainly wasn't supposed to end like this.
Two years ago, i sat in my car with Chris, looked at him, started the car..
I paused for a minute, and then told him "Dude, i want to be with her. I want her to be my girlfriend. I can't stop thinking about her, and how happy we could be" -- I was immediately cut off by Chris, who blurted out "Then go ask her out!"
I immediately jammed the keys back into the off position, and skipped up to the porch. Beaming. So ecstatic, as if i could hear any news in the world right then and it wouldn't phase me one way or the other.
I knocked on the door, Shannon came back out, and she looked confused. I immediately reached out and took both of her hands in mine, and pulled her outside her doorstep, looking nervously at my feet, and at the pot of flowers nearby as I assembled some words.
"I really like you, and I really like spending time with you. I think we get along really well, and I want you to be my girlfriend. I want to be your boyfriend Shannon."
I don't even remember her exact words back, but it was a laugh and a yes along with whatever she decided to say. I remember that feeling.
SO well.
37 minutes from now, and it will have been two years since that amazing and refreshing night. Since my new beginning. A clean slate, and a gamble at love after having been in love.
I don't think it will ever be that easy ever again.
It wasn't supposed to end, without reason and without warning.
It certainly wasn't supposed to end like this.