The Love of My Life <3

So I know Newcome wants to hear allllll about me and Brian's relationship. But it's actually a pretty funny story how we met. It's not one of those sappy love story: "We literally ran into each other, I fell, He helped me up and we locked eyes, love at first sight." Yeah, not Brian Orye.

I was in my junior year, I played Varsity basketball. Every practice, the wrestlers walk through the gym to the boys locker room, of course they're a distraction, not because they're good looking, but because the basketball coaches were the pits and we'd take any distraction to pass the minutes away till practice was over.

Everyday we'd see the wrestlers. Everyday this goofy kid with knobby knees and a crooked smile, would walk through the gym, lingering, like some goofy creep. Christmas break was full of long, hard practices for the Tournment games. During one of the practices, Shelby and I sat together while I braced my ankles. The goofy kid comes in, apparently knows Shelby, and stops to chat with her before practice. The entire time Shelby is talking with this kid, he's akwardly looking at me. I've never seen this kid in my life, but he's kinds weird, and why does he keep looking at me?! Finally after an hour long of lingering, unnecessay trips in and out of the gym during practice, and awkward eye contact, he leaves. Only to reappear at McDonald's after practice, the usual girl's varsity basketball hang out after games and practices. Great. Again, this goofball creeper is constantly catching my eye. what is this kid's deal?!

As the girls are walking out to our cars, Shelby pulls me aside, "Brian says your really pretty and he thinks your cool and asked me for your number". Seriously? Double Great. "Did you give it to him?". "Yeah, that's ohkay right? he's a totally good guy." Great great great great.

Within three hours Brian txts me. "Hey, it's Brian, from McDonald's, what up?", I don't respond. I call Shelby and yell at her for giving my number out to such a creepy goofball of a dude. We have a long conversation about how all the guys I have been recently seeing, are jerks, ecspecially the last (For class purposes, we won't go with any names). She explains how he's such a nice, funny, amazing guy once you get to know him, he's just weird and obnoxious on the outside. I told her that for her sake, I would just txt him, no dates promised, nothing of the sort, just to be nice, I'd txt him. He turned out to be quite the txter, he would spit lines at me, totally trying to hard, but in a cute way. But I still saw him nothing more than a nice guy i'd txt.

One night, Tia and I were driving around town in Frederick, the mall, Best Buy, all sorts of places. Brian txted me asking what I was up to, I told him Tia and I were in Best Buy. Nearly 5 minutes later, He's walking through the Best Buy doors. "Oh crap, Tia! Run! Hide! That creeper dude showed up!". Needless to say, he found us. We awkwardly stood around, nervously chit chating about nothing of value. Brian picks up the SingStar kareokee microphone and gives Tia the other, sing with me. hesitantly, she begins to sing, Brian takes the lead and belts out the lyrics, "You're Beautiful! You're beautiful! You're beautiful, it's true!", while everyone in the store turns to stare at who the insane idiot screaming Daniel Powter is. Completely embarrassing.

Best Buy announces that they are shutting down for the night, we decide to hop over to Taco Bell for food. Yum. Brian follows. We sit in the parking lot, talking for hours. Finally we leave to go home. "He's still a creeper, following us around like that", I tell Tia. He txts me, asking me out on a date, a real date, like dinner and a movie date. I tell him I'll get back to him, intending to never get back to him. I fill Shelby in with everything that has happened with this odd boy. Shelby forces me to accept his offer and go out. We set the date. Two days later I find out that the day Brian and I set our date for, is the night that my parents are going up to Carlise, PA to visit their good friends Sue and Joe from the lake, my ex-boyfriend Matt's parents. They offer for me to go to visit Matt for the Christmas party. I told my mom I had a date with Brian, she urged me to go on the date, I cancelled and called Matty to tell him I was coming to visit. I felt bad for cancelling on Brian, he's a nice guy, but it's Matty.

Visiting Matthew was terrible. We flirted, then fought, then flirted, then fought. Typical Matthew. I called Brian to reschedule our date in total anger at Matt. We set the date for the next night. As that Friday night came around, I took 3 hours to get ready, I usually only take 30 minutes. I for some odd reason, was a little nervous.

Brian took me to Applebees, the movies to see National Treasure 2, and out to Starbucks after. The entire night was amazing, he said all the right things, and acting exactly how a gentleman should act. He was adorable. When he walked me to my steps, he kissed me good night. The moment our lips touched, it felt so right. We continued to see eachother for two weeks longer, hanging out, going out to eat, watching movies. He was perfect. Finally, we had the conversation, "I'm really starting to fall for you", we confessed that we really liked each other alot and decided to start dating, to see if we could amount to anything. Personally, I thought we'd last maybe two weeks. I'm such a serious person, while he doesn't take anything seriously. Which is why, in my opinion, I believe we worked out so well.

Here we are, a year and a half later, going strong, and still very much in love. I like to say that Brian has brought out a better person in me, he's taught me to not be so serious, go with the flow, and live everyday like it may be your last, to never regret anyhting you do- learn from your mistakes, and to live the age I'm in, not in my futre. I'm 18, act like it. I also like to think that I've rubbed off on Brian as well, he has a better plan for the future, his head on straight, and knows when to buckledown and takes things seriously, while still being the genuine Brian Orye.

I learned a great deal from my experiences with Brian: never judge a book by it's cover. I thought Brian was the creepist goofball I had ever met, now he's the love of my life. <3