How We Met: His Perspective

It was the first semester of my sophomore year and I was stuck in College Algebra at 8:45am.  I was sitting in the back row semi-listening to our professor, who was a little crazy, when in walked a girl wearing a brightly colored jacket.  Fashionably late indeed!  In this moment I said to myself, "Woah!  Who is this girl?"  After a little research I found out her name was Laura and that she lived in the Hall right above me, what luck!  Our two halls would go to dinner once a week, so I was able to talk to her a couple times in a group setting.  I then decided that I needed "help" with my algebra homework.  She agreed to meet with me and help me out.  We met, worked on the homework, and parted ways.  I thought it went terrific, and raced back to my dorm to tell my roommate Gabe how well it went.  The next day I saw Laura in the lunch room and she came over and said we should work on math again.  I told her that would be great, but in my mind I was saying, "HECK YEAH".  The next few weeks went well as we worked on math and hung out a little.  I liked her more and more each time we hung out.  Everything was progressing nicely, I had things totally under control. That is until one of my dirty rat friends spilled the beans that I really liked her.  She then text me, "I know a secret of yours".  After a lot of texting that night she agreed to go out on a date with me.  This would be my very first date, with anybody!  I couldn't screw this up, so I called my brother Tim, the ladies man of our family, for suggestions on where to take her.  I eventually settled on Applebees.  I picked her up and we ventured out on our very first date.  We talked and played paper football until the date was over.  I thought it went fantastic.  The next week I decided I was going to ask her out on another date.  My plan of action was to work on math again and when we finished, ask her if she wanted to go out to Starbucks.  Everything was going according to plan.  We were in here room and nearly done with our math assignment when in walked her roommates.  A curveball that I had not anticipated!  We finished the assignment and I left, opportunity wasted.  I would not be stopped, so I sent her a text asking if she wanted to go out again.  She said yes!(a little foreshadowing perchance?).  A second date with a beautiful girl, this was simply the greatest.  We went on our second date just before Christmas break.  I, again, thought it went great.  We parted ways as Christmas break arrived, but continued to talk and text a lot.  By early January we started dating!  I was super excited, but I sheepishly must admit that we started dating via text messages.  I will never live that down.  When we returned from Christmas break we hugged for the very first time in the parking lot behind the dorms.  It was a fantastic hug, and one of many to come!  ...And now we are getting married.  boooya!