It's amazing how life turns entirely upside down in such a short time.
Seriously, life today is entirely different in every way that it was this time last week.
I've fallen in way serious mega-love with someone I'd never expected it from. Her name is Stephanie, and she's absolutely spectacular.
Everything kinda happened in a very brief chain of events, starting almost literally at midnight of my 20th birthday. My friend Mindy picked me up as she was hanging around with her friend Steph and I was bored. I'd met Steph a couple times (we all saw Indy together and played my Wii back at her and her ex-boyfriend's home). She wasn't doing as fantastic as humanly possible, I suppose, and shortly after I was picked up I found out she was in a bit of a fight with her boyfriend, and she was just tired of it all. We hung around, played around the playground at Montclair Elementary (where they'd first met as kids and hadn't been for years), she and I played on the swings and talked while Mindy did other stuff. We headed back home, and instead we hung around at the park in my neighborhood for a bit longer, and swung a little more. Eventually, they had to take me back home, and much to my surprise, as I leaned in the front of the vehicle to snag hugs goodnight from the two, Steph snuck in a little kiss on my neck and made my night, day, and birthday, possibly even my year right off the bat.
The next day, after getting birthday ice cream courtesy of Natasha and Sarah, and went and snagged a couple things I needed to get. A bit after I got home, I got a call from Steph wondering what was going on. I told her that sometime soon, Craig was planning for us to go to Gatti Town for my birthday, and that of course she could come along as well. Of course, Craig thought that the car would be inhabited by only Amber (who was driving), him, and myself, so I figured there was plenty of room. When Amber got there, though, it turned out that there was indeed a friend with her, and as soon as we went to pick Craig up, Steph had to go right on my lap for the rest of the ride, making me both excited as hell and nervous as fuck.
We got there and probably sat around for half an hour waiting for everyone to show up (mainly Tomas and Pete), and after they finally got there, even though Tomas paid for me (it WAS my birthday, after all), I still made sure to pay for Steph's dinner.
This was the moment where she made sure to point out that whether I realized it or not, we were actively on a date.
It was also the moment where I almost melted to my seat.
After eating a few rounds of pizza, we decided it was time to go and play some games. I swear, modern crane machines are the biggest ripoff EVER. The Rollercoaster thing is always fun, though.
After a while, the money ran out and the place was probably about 20 minutes away from closing. She had to stop off in the bathroom, and I swear that the one point in the night without her felt like an eternity. But after she came back out, she walked up to me and kissed me. She was aiming for the mouth, but in my utter confusion (who'd want to kiss ME?), it ended up on my chin. It was adorable, though. Didn't stop us from redoing it right, however.
Then we went outside to kiss some more and wait for everyone else. I didn't even care that everyone decided that we were seeing The Love Guru for MY birthday (I would've preferred Get Smart), because I had something much better to focus on. Sure the movie had a few good bits, but her presence made everything perfect. Afterwards, we went over to ReAnna's, played Apples to Apples, and debuted to Mindy as a 100% official couple.
Friday came, and I had work. She came up there a little after 10, right after we opened, and spent ALL DAY there with me. I've never felt someone love me for who I am quite so much. It's like every little thing about me is just more and more amazing, and I'm really afraid that eventually I'm going to wake up to find it's all a dream. We've managed to spend part of every day together since then (ESPECIALLY Sunday and Monday), and it's worth every moment of it.
There are so many other things I'd like to go into right now, but I'm afraid my fingers will fall off if I type any more.
If you skipped to the end because you saw too much text, just know that for once, I'm happy and madly in love with someone who actually loves me back, possibly even more than I do. (as it turns out, we've sort of kinda known each other for years, but more on that in my post for tomorrow).
I hope everyone else is doing comparably well. Not that it's going to bother me otherwise.
My 20s are off to a damn good start.
I've fallen in way serious mega-love with someone I'd never expected it from. Her name is Stephanie, and she's absolutely spectacular.
Everything kinda happened in a very brief chain of events, starting almost literally at midnight of my 20th birthday. My friend Mindy picked me up as she was hanging around with her friend Steph and I was bored. I'd met Steph a couple times (we all saw Indy together and played my Wii back at her and her ex-boyfriend's home). She wasn't doing as fantastic as humanly possible, I suppose, and shortly after I was picked up I found out she was in a bit of a fight with her boyfriend, and she was just tired of it all. We hung around, played around the playground at Montclair Elementary (where they'd first met as kids and hadn't been for years), she and I played on the swings and talked while Mindy did other stuff. We headed back home, and instead we hung around at the park in my neighborhood for a bit longer, and swung a little more. Eventually, they had to take me back home, and much to my surprise, as I leaned in the front of the vehicle to snag hugs goodnight from the two, Steph snuck in a little kiss on my neck and made my night, day, and birthday, possibly even my year right off the bat.
The next day, after getting birthday ice cream courtesy of Natasha and Sarah, and went and snagged a couple things I needed to get. A bit after I got home, I got a call from Steph wondering what was going on. I told her that sometime soon, Craig was planning for us to go to Gatti Town for my birthday, and that of course she could come along as well. Of course, Craig thought that the car would be inhabited by only Amber (who was driving), him, and myself, so I figured there was plenty of room. When Amber got there, though, it turned out that there was indeed a friend with her, and as soon as we went to pick Craig up, Steph had to go right on my lap for the rest of the ride, making me both excited as hell and nervous as fuck.
We got there and probably sat around for half an hour waiting for everyone to show up (mainly Tomas and Pete), and after they finally got there, even though Tomas paid for me (it WAS my birthday, after all), I still made sure to pay for Steph's dinner.
This was the moment where she made sure to point out that whether I realized it or not, we were actively on a date.
It was also the moment where I almost melted to my seat.
After eating a few rounds of pizza, we decided it was time to go and play some games. I swear, modern crane machines are the biggest ripoff EVER. The Rollercoaster thing is always fun, though.
After a while, the money ran out and the place was probably about 20 minutes away from closing. She had to stop off in the bathroom, and I swear that the one point in the night without her felt like an eternity. But after she came back out, she walked up to me and kissed me. She was aiming for the mouth, but in my utter confusion (who'd want to kiss ME?), it ended up on my chin. It was adorable, though. Didn't stop us from redoing it right, however.
Then we went outside to kiss some more and wait for everyone else. I didn't even care that everyone decided that we were seeing The Love Guru for MY birthday (I would've preferred Get Smart), because I had something much better to focus on. Sure the movie had a few good bits, but her presence made everything perfect. Afterwards, we went over to ReAnna's, played Apples to Apples, and debuted to Mindy as a 100% official couple.
Friday came, and I had work. She came up there a little after 10, right after we opened, and spent ALL DAY there with me. I've never felt someone love me for who I am quite so much. It's like every little thing about me is just more and more amazing, and I'm really afraid that eventually I'm going to wake up to find it's all a dream. We've managed to spend part of every day together since then (ESPECIALLY Sunday and Monday), and it's worth every moment of it.
There are so many other things I'd like to go into right now, but I'm afraid my fingers will fall off if I type any more.
If you skipped to the end because you saw too much text, just know that for once, I'm happy and madly in love with someone who actually loves me back, possibly even more than I do. (as it turns out, we've sort of kinda known each other for years, but more on that in my post for tomorrow).
I hope everyone else is doing comparably well. Not that it's going to bother me otherwise.
My 20s are off to a damn good start.