My Girl

It started on a warm summer night when my buddy and I were lurking on Facebook when he gets a message from this brown haired girl. He was with a girl at the time so he was naturally being short with her to end the conversation, but I said "wait no.. She's really cute" and as soon as that came out of my mouth he asks her to message me.

Later that night I was just thinking about this girl. I'd never met her but something about her face just made me think. She wasn't like any other girl I've ever had interest in. She was different than all the others before. She didn't look like she was capable of hurting me with that soft face, round cheeks, and huge blue eyes.

I messaged her early in the morning saying that we needed to hangout because she just moved here to a place with no friends. From that message on we began to just talk and text for a month.
When it was time to bring up actually hanging out she was all over it and showed so much interest. I felt amazing because of how wanted I felt even before seeing her. No one had ever shown that much excitement for me.

I drove to her house in my 4 speed 1990 Honda civic hatchback. I'm terrible with directions so I had to call because I was lost. "hello?? Haha" was the first thing I heard from her and it was the cutest thing in the world.

I eventually pulled into the driveway of a small yellow house at around 3pm, got out of my car and slowly walked up the driveway. I pushed the doorbell button and waited. It took forever for her to answer the door (later I learned the doorbell was broken so to her it just seemed like I was waiting at the door and without knocking or anything) she walked out the door and smiled at me and I smiled back.

I won't ever forget her pink top Jean short shorts and grey flip flops. Even the simplest clothes looked amazing on her. Her hair was long and pinned up above her ears.

I had never taken a girl out before so I didn't know what to do but take her to the park to swing.

As we were sitting on the swings we were just trying to talk about anything while smiling back and fourth and then putting our heads down in embarrassment.

Later that day I was going over to my buddies place at around 6 so I planned on leaving then.

This beautiful girl and I spent so long just walking around making stupid jokes and talking about ridiculous things. She asked what time it was because I had to have her back before 6.
I looked at my phone, smiled and said "it's 8. how did that happen?! Hahah"

We spent the next month going to parks and
eventually watching movies together.

The more times she came over the closer we got on that little couch. We wouldn't pay any attention to the movies but we would talk for hours straight about anything while 'comparing our hands.'

When it finally happened we were talking nonstop, but then she put her fingers between mine and held my hand and we both went dead silent. All I could hear was the heavy beating of my heart.

After that it became more frequent that we held hands. I even walked through school the first two days of my senior year with this girl on my arm and it felt amazing. I had to make her my girlfriend, but I wasn't quite there yet. I told myself I needed to kiss this girl first. The problem was I had never even kissed a girl yet. I was a shy kid who kept to himself always, but for the first time in my life I needed to fight for something no matter how nervous it would make me, no matter how I thought she would think of it. I told her i had a surprise for her, but i didn't say when it would be. After a couple days of school I told myself when I dropped her off at her house I was going to kiss her.

It was the two of us sitting in my red Honda talking for a bit and right as she was getting out I said "do you want your surprise?" she responded with the biggest smile, said yes and slowly leaned towards me while I leaned towards her. I kissed the top of her lip and she kissed somewhere around me chin. We both started laughing and she said "let's try again, Nick Hahah" so we leaned in again. It was pretty much the same results as before. She got up and out of my car to leave then stopped and said "wait no. One last time" with the biggest smile in her face. Third times the charm I guess.

Two days after that I finally asked her to be my girlfriend. We have now been together for more than a year and I love her more than ever. She makes me happy when nothing will. We've been on so many adventures together and I can't wait for more.

I'm gonna marry this girl