Thank you for being so patient with me...I know this is dragging out!!!
He opened the car door for me and we walked to the dimly lit back porch.
I turned around to say "Thank you" again.
We were face to face and we were so close I could count his eyelashes.
My stomach was fluttering and my heart was beating a mile a minute.
Then he said:
"Can I kiss you?"
I really wanted to scream:
"YES YES YES KISS ME"
but because I was rendered almost speechless I could only manage a very soft squeaky:
"yes"
He leaned in closer and he kissed me.
No one had ever kissed me like that before. Trust me I kissed a lot of boys! He had the softest lips I had ever been kissed by. He was so gentle, and I could tell he was kissing me because he truly cared about me. He caressed my cheek with one hand and the other was wrapped around me.
I had never felt so safe in my entire life.
We kissed, and kissed, and kissed and kissed.
It was very hard to break apart and we probably would have gone on kissing longer, but the porch like flicked off and on and I knew that Grandma telling me it was time to come inside.
Tom told me he was leaving to go home for Christmas break the next day and he wouldn't be back until after the first of the year.
We kissed one more time, and then he left.
I had a smile planted on my face even while I slept.
The next day was Sunday and I had to work. Sometime in the afternoon Tom showed up to say good bye. He also had a letter for me that he wrote after our date. He asked me not to read it in front of him. We kissed again and he left.
The second he left I ran into the break room and read the letter.
I debated on whether or not I would scan it in, post it here and let everyone read it, then I changed my mind. A lot of what he wrote was so tender and sweet and I like that it is just between us. So, it will stay between us and some day our kids will read it.
I will give you the cliff notes version though :)
Basically he addressed some potential issues and what he thought of them.
Our age difference: Didn't matter to him. He was crazy about me.
The "intimate" issue (The fact that he had been "intimate" with one other person I hadn't been with anyone) He wasn't going to be pushy, he respected me.
Bottom line, he wanted to continue our relationship and I was thrilled because I was feeling the same way.
During his winter break he called me often and sent 2 letters. I couldn't wait for him to come back and he came back 2 days early because he wanted to see me.
It wasn't long before I knew he was the one I would marry.....I didn't know when, but I couldn't imagine my life with out him.
Period.
This ends the how we met section of this story.
I will (as time permits) start a new section to be revealed later....right now I have to finish our travel story!!!!!
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