So Sarah asked me to write a
blog post about my version of how we started dating.I thought this would be
easy but in reality it has been really really hard...
I met Sarah at camp and got to know her as a fellow camp
person and Christian, I feel that camp is a great place to meet people as it
means that you both have the similar priorities in life (also they have seen
you first thing in the morning so she knows I look like a roadkilled wombat
first thing in the morning) . Sarah and I became friends over the summers that
we were at camp together and as it turned out lived very close to each other,
about a fifteen minute drive. As the summer wore on I began to like Sarah quite
a bit and was very disappointed that she would not be up week seven. So on the
Saturday of the sixth week before she left I gave her my cell number, not a big
deal I know but easily the most nerve wracking thing all summer which seeing as
I make myself physically sick with worry before meeting the kids on Sundays
means I was pretty nervous. We started texting fairly frequently and talking on
facebook, I realized that we got along really well and that she was a really
great person.
Then came the Fergus Fall Fair, I was supposed to be going
with my best-friend Alex, spur of the moment I invited Sarah and asked if she
wanted to come. I drove to pick her up and somehow ended up on the wrong street
but the right number, I confidently walked up and knocked on the door, to my
dismay a guy who had definitely had a few drinks opened the door with a couple
days worth of stubble wearing a muscle shirt and track pants, I mumbled asking
if Sarah was home and he started laughing and told me I must have the wrong
house. I have very rarely been so happy to have gone to the wrong house. Sarah
came and we awkwardly talked and walked around the fair with my friends (if any
of my friends are reading this now, YOU GUYS ARE HUGE PUTZES!!!!!!) my friends
did everything possible to make me feel awkward and they succeeded. After this
Sarah and I did fun things like go bowling (I absolutely creamed her no matter
what she says) and went to my youth group, I would drive her and we would talk
all the way from Elmira to Fergus and back. At this point I was crazy about her
and was terrified that she didn't like me.Then one night we were parked out
front of her house talking and she was saying something (to this day I have no
idea what it was) and all I could think about was how much I liked her and
wanted to tell her. As I was thinking this I suddenly realized that she had
stopped talking and was looking at me, I came to the realization that I had
told her I liked her and hadn't even meant to it just slipped out. There was a
moment of stunned silence and Sarah told me that she liked me too. Now that was
a great relief, I felt great but then I realized that I hadn't thought of what
to do next. I didn't know what to do so we just talked about dating and I asked
if she wanted a relationship. I told her she could think about it for a week
she didn't need to tell me right then. The next week I picked her up and we
went to youth and had fun, and as I drove her home, just as we were getting to
Church and Arthur's lights, right by the Vacuum and Electrical place I asked
her if she wanted a relationship and she said yes. We both felt that I should
ask her parents, her Dad at the time was away for work in Boston and wouldn't
be home for a while yet. The next day I went to the corn maze with Sarah's
church and had a wonderful time even though I was terrified meeting her friends
(I was also terrified that they would get us so lost in that corn maze that
even I wouldn't be able to get them out). As it turned out the next day was
Halloween and my youth was going to be collecting food for the food bank. A
couple hours before Sarah told me that her Dad was in town that night and I
would be able to ask him then. Now I was wearing a Moses costume that night
when I went over and was terrified of meeting her parents. When I got there I
took off my Moses costume, prayed for courage at the steering wheel of my car
and went to the door. Her parents told me that they were okay with it and we
talked for a little bit and all I can remember is a goofy smile that I was
trying to keep off my face for the rest of the conversation. We talked about
respect and they were very kind to me for which I am very thankful. I remember
leaving for Trick or Eats smiling from ear to ear, we were driving down Arthur
Street towards Alma, just before the bends when we officially started dating.
I'm sorry that this took so long, I don't mean to ramble, I have been blessed
dating Sarah for the past two and a half years and look forward to the future.
Cheers,
Andrew/Stripes
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