| The day we met was an absolutely freezing cold night in February at a high school baseball game in 1997. I was a junior in high school and Josh had been out of school for 2 years. I was not looking my best, wrapped in a bubble jacket, tobogan, gloves and anything else to keep me warm, but Josh saw something in my eyes (I wonder if it was just that they were the only thing visible). He felt like we needed to meet. Although the feeling was not mutual, after all I was there to watch my boyfriend play. A friend of both of ours tried to play match maker but a quick, “Nice to meet you,” and I was back to the stands to watch the game. About one month later my boyfriend of a year and a half broke up with me and shattered my heart at the same time. In my eyes my year was ruined, NO PROM? NO DATE?? My mind was set……I was not going.
That same friend who introduced us took me out one night, seeing how I was so lonely. I hadn’t been alone in almost two years and was going insane. After we had eaten supper we were headed home. Atleast that was what I thought. We drove right past my house and into the neighborhood right below it. I was informed that the guy I had met at the baseball game wanted to meet again. “What guy” was all I could think about. I didn’t even remember meeting anyone at a game. Once again we were introduced but that was the extent of it.
The odd thing is that Josh had lived less than 45 seconds from me for almost 9 years, knowing so many of the same people, and our paths had never crossed. I am told that for almost 4 years when he drove past my house his exact words were, “There’s a girl who lives in that house and one day I will go out with her.” No one believed this because he wasn’t one of those guys who could just walk up to someone and ask them out. I never knew him before that day we met, now his 1995 white Jeep Wrangler I knew very well. I had seen it drive by my house more times than I could count. Once a girlfriend and I had even followed him and a friend basically because they were in a jeep, but it never went farther than that. It actually took a while for Josh to even ask me out on an official date but it did come and it did go. I actually had a great time, despite how hard I tried not to. The rest is pretty much history. Six years later(in March) we still have that spark, that little bubbly feeling you get when just think about the other, especially when we talk about the big day. Trust me that is a lot.
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