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How We Met
It was my second year at my new school San Gabriel High. I was a junior who had moved to the area from the city of LA a year ago. I was just getting used to my surroundings and people. I had but one friend in my third period U.S. history class for Mr. Ramsay and while we were busy talking amongst ourselves in class one day, "Jay" as I call him, came up to talk to us. It was the beginning of the semester and I didn't know him, I figured he knew my friend since he spoke to us so animatedly. I got into the flow and chatted back just as friendly as he came off. At the end of class, my friend Lana and I left together to our fourth period together. I asked her if he was a friend of hers, and she told me that she thought he was a friend of mine! I assumed that he knew her since they spoke to eachother like they were well acquainted. That's when everything started moving to us getting together.
My parents had found out I had a boyfriend the day before school started again, after summer vacation, my sophmore year and forbade me from ever dating again. They scared me pretty bad and I decided that I would never date until out of high school. I got through sophmore year without much to deter my determination of staying single. After all, it's 'was' me, who'd like me? I would find out soon enough. Jay sat on the other side of the classroom but would come over everyday to talk to me and the people around me. It was pretty obvious that he had something on his mind since I didn't know him that well. I liked the attention but I also remembered my obligation of keeping guys away from me. Whenever the girls in class would say he had a crush on me and teased me I would deny it. I would pray that he fell madly in love with my friend Lana and leave poor me alone! I had enough to deal with, without avoiding a slaughtering from my parents. He even started to get on my nerves as time passed. He would always mess with the hoods on my jackets or steal my hair ties. I started to ignore him but he didn't seem to get the message.
I don't know how, when, or why it happened, but I started to fall for him. It was a funny thing since I told Lana to "shoot me if I 'ever' think about dating that guy!" Luckily of course, Lana either forgot what I said or felt generous to let me live my life and date Jay. We obtained eachother's screennames (sn's) and started to talk a few weeks before winter break 2001. A week before vacation we confessed our interest in eachother and my reason for not being able to be with him. We flirted online for a week into vacation, since he was in San Diego or Mexico with his family. One Christmas Eve I had just returned from my cousin's house around 11 and chatted with him for awhile. It was half an hour before Christmas and he asked me, "so...are you like my girlfriend or what?" I told him no, and that I didn't know what we were. Some really weird kind of friends I said. He began to ask me to be his girlfriend again and again I told him that I wasn't allowed to date, that I couldn't go out with him. He told me that he didn't mind and that as long as I was with him that it would be enough. He was so sweet I couldn't say no. He told me I made his Christmas wish (or something to that extent) come true. We spent Christmas together online till 12 and gave our goodnights and Merry Christmas. That was December 24, 2001. We just got through our third month anniversary on Sunday. It hasn't always been easy with us and we almost broke up a month into it. Even I thought we were too different and faught too much to make it work for more than a month. For now, I'm glad that I was wrong...for once! He's my guy now and I'm his girl.
Note: This is MY side of the story, in his version he might exaggerate and try to make himself look cooler. You know what I mean? "Yeah... I thought she was a cute lil chick,but not like I was really into her or nuttin', just happened. " Guys...sigh!