Takes me back...

The movie Fools Rush In is on. This is the first movie Shaun and I saw when we started dating. I remember it like it was yesterday. There were 5 in our group, and Katie always made the girls sit on the inside by her so it wasn't like we were in some weird couple thing.

The theater is gone now that we used to go to almost every weekend.

I remember being so excited to go on a date with him, and be out with our friends. We would sometimes go to the McDonalds that was in the walmart that was right next door, occasionally even emptying our purses and filling them with candy we bought so we could sneak it in.

This movie was the first time he put his arm around me.

I never wanted him to move it.

We met in our high school cafeteria, not the most romantic of settings but I remember being way too shy to talk to him and always staring at his beautiful blue eyes.

Since I tried to sit near him but sually where I couldn't se him or was too afraid to look, my friend Katie and I had a code for when he would get up to go to the trash can across the room.

"The chicken has flown the coop!!!" she would say. Anyone within hearing distance would turn and give us weird looks as I busted out laughing hysterically from being so nervous about going to throw away my trash at the same time as him.

We went on a field trip to Disney world the first week of Feb 1997. We hung out with a large group, hitting all the rides and having a blast. I think that was the first time I got up the nerve to talk to him.

At the end of the day I lent him some money for dinner and he seemed very grateful. He said I was nice. I still remember that.

I had a seventeen magazine with a quiz about how compatible you and your crush are. I told my friend on the neighboring bus that I was going to take it and we got the highest score. To me, that was a sign.

I heard a week later that he was going to ask some other girl out for valentines day. I was upset but I had spent months crushing him so I figured it was time to let go.

We had a half day on V day and he and I had the same lunch. I was sitting alone when he walked in. I was wondering what to do if he started talking to me or anything so I was really suprised when he kind of flung this paper at me and was a beautiful poem asking me to the military ball for jrotc.

I said yes, of course, and floated home on a cloud.