Once upon a time.....

Here is story. Its a happy one I promise. I should I have done this yesterday since it was the big mile marker....but you should understand the lack of time on my point. But here is the effort. The big one. Here is the story of the beginning of my heart. Here is the story of Joe and I.

Katie and Donnie :)

It was many, many, years ago. 14 to be a fact. I was young and so was he. I was out and about with my best girlfriends and my dear friend Donnie. We were out and about and doing what we do best...causing trouble. Too keep our party going we needed to make a stop. A refill on our party requirements. Donnie said he knew exactly where to go to make this happen. So...three girls and a guy went to an apartment. A Gigantic man answered the door. He was in awe of what he saw. It was almost like he wanted to high five Donnie for the ability to have three hot amazing girls with him...(so he should have gotten a high five! ;) ) We were invited in and advised to go to the basement. ya...basement of a strange apartment shouldn't have been a good thing to do....but thats what you get when your young and dumb and clutching pepper spray.

I walk downstairs and here is what I see. A guy sitting on the floor in glitter pants looking pretty much asleep, a small skinny guy with no shirt on, and then a blonde haired girl. Holy shit! It was my girl Brooke that I worked with at Donatos! I was so happy to see her and confused on the randomness but was rest assured not to be scared on where I was. We immediately started talking and I ignored everything else around me. We got our party favors from the skinny guy and then I turned to leave. There was that guy in those glitter pants. Adorable in a way.....gorgeous face and eyes and then mr. glitter pants said, "Hi...my name is Joe"....and he was trying to stand up but it didn't work out for him because a bed rail he was leaning on about crushed him due to his movement. It was really funny. I grabbed his hand and said Hi and told him my name. Then said bye to all of them and left with my friends.

Justin....never ever really wore shirts that much....lol

Two days later I went to Fudruckers because Donnie needed me to stop over there for some reason. So I did. He got me a chocolate milkshake so I sat in the smoking section and slurped away and read some magazine just waiting. A few minutes later here comes a tall blonde hair guy dressed in normal clothes, skinny guy with a shirt on finally and another guy in a black trench coat. They sat on the opposite side of the smoking section and ordered food. It was just us back there I felt like they were just staring and talking about me. So.....I get up and go back to the kitchen to grab Donnie to see why in the hell I was there. He said well....my friend is into you...but he's shy. I asked which one, and then Mr. glitter pants pokes his head in the back and told Donnie to hurry up with his food jokingly and then looks at me and says Hi with an adorable smile. Mr. glitter pants then left to go back to his seat and then Donnie says...."That one".  I then felt like I was going to puke. Since when does the really hot amazing guy look my way??? I then went back to my seat to have a cig. Small skinny guy...aka Justin, said, "will you just come sit with us already???" So I did. We joked around like we were all friends already....but then guess who blows up my pager. It was my dad. Shit. I'm supposed to be at work so I had to leave and rush to Donatos so my cover wasn't blown. You see caller Id just came out so my dad needed me to prove I was at work....so I needed to get there. Before I left Joe grabbed me and insisted I come over that night. I said sure and he gave me his number to let him know when I was able to come by. I then rushed out of there like a bat outta hell and proved to the dad that I was at work with my manager advising as well that I'm working all night....(God I loved working there!! They covered me so much with the dad!! ) Then off I went. Back to that apartment. This time I got to go upstairs. Joe was there with trench coat guy. Trench coat guy was weird. His name is Steve. They were both playing a video game and was excited that I was there. We hung out for a couple hours....smoked...then I needed to go home. My fake shift at work was coming to a close. Joe walked me out to my car and gave me hug. Just a hug. I gave him my number and pager number to get ahold of me. And that was it. (Ps...weird trench coat guy is now my bestest guy friend ever. Especially since we made him lose the trench coat! ;) )

Situation like this is confusing to a teenage girl. He acted like he was so into me but just gave me a hug??? I was confused....but filled with butterflies. I was overwhelmed with happiness and went home. We talked every night the whole week....and planned the next time we could hang out. I decided we should go see my friend Katie so thats what we did. At Katie's....I got my kiss. It was perfect. Bone chilling.....goose pimples all the way down to my toes. Even Katie was excited. It was like she was witnessing history. Thats exactly what it was. The beginning of my life with Joe began.

We've grown up together...and sometimes we have grown apart but then we find the reason on why we are together in the first place. Its not fate...its not destiny. Its the fact that when we kiss....even 14 years later. Its bone chilling....goose pimples all the way to my toes. Its more then just a kiss. Its love. The strongest that you would ever know.