This took place in March of last year. Sean served a mission for our church. (The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints) (aka “The Mormon church”. XD) Well, whenever I met him the April of 2010 I did NOT expect to see him again. Why? Because he was from CANADA. And a Canadian coming back AFTER his mission (which is a HUGE thing in our church) to see a girl? I thought that was just never going to happen.

Him and his companion came over ALL the time. Little did I know that he liked me. I was going through a rough relationship at that time but… I felt something with him. We developed a pretty close relationship. (Nothing physical though. Just through talking and such :) ) Well, whenever he left my area, (six months after he arrived) I thought that I would never hear from him again which just had me in tears the moment he walked out of my house for the last time. I received a letter in the mail from him. He kept it pretty short and simple. He told me that he missed me and all of our talks about the most random things. XD I knew that he wrote me for a purpose though. Everyone pointed out to me that he liked me but I wasn’t sure… so whenever I wrote him back I told him that I liked him and he was so excited! He kept the first letter strictly friends because he didn’t want to scare me away! You can imagine both of the shock on our parts.

Well, after keeping in touch until he went home in January of 2011 we planned out that he was going to come back and visit in March! Both of us were stoked! The sooner he got home the better! I was expecting a call from him when he got home. Nothing. Until a week later. He told me that it was due to Doctor check ups and such. I understood. Well, he called every couple of days and we talked about life and such. It wasn’t like, “OH MY GOSH I’VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOUASKDHLKFH!!!!” As much as I wanted it to be. It was pretty platonic. He stopped calling after about a week and a half. I wondered why… it had me upset. But he was busy with work. (We still communicated via Facebook) So, I shrugged it off. I still wondered why he wasn’t being as affectionate as he had been in his letters… but I didn’t say anything to him because I didn’t want to make him uncomfortable. I assumed that he would just warm up to the idea of “us”. 

We sent each other a message every day on Facebook keeping us in touch. Well, I saw on Facebook that he changed his relationship status to in a relationship yet he didn’t specify with who. So I assumed he meant with me! I was so happy! I asked him about it and he told me all of this drama that happened with him and this other girl. My reaction was this: “…What? So, you aren’t in a relationship with ME?” I was livid. Why would he go and drop me after leading me on for such a long time?! Who was this girl?! These were the questions racing around my head. After he told me all of that I sent him a message telling him that I didn’t want to see him and not to come down. He sent me a message back telling me that he wanted to come still and that we could just hang out as friends. As you can imagine, I did NOT want to just be friends. I didn’t think that he wanted that either…

I didn’t speak to him until the end of February. And only then because my mom told me to contact him and see if he was still coming. He was, he also told me that the relationship that he had with that other girl was over. I was happy but still a little skeptical.. he didn’t give me ANY details about why he was in a relationship with her or how and why it ended. He told me that he would tell me everything in person. Well, making the trip to Orlando to the resort we were staying at was nerve wracking, to say the least. (my family invited him to come with us to Disney so that’s where we stayed.) His flight had already come in a few hours earlier and he was sleeping in the room. I was so nervous to see him again. I didn’t know what to expect.

Walking into the resort and seeing him my heart just raced so fast. He was so adorable. Even moreso than when I saw him last. After everyone unloaded the van, we talked and we shared our first hug. It was nice. :) But, still a little awkward. We had about 5-6 inches of space between us at all times. It was pretty funny. Haha.

The first couple of days we barely touched. I started to think that he didn’t like me anymore and just wanted to be friends. Well, that same day my mother told he and I to go to Epcot by ourselves. It would be our very first date. We were cool with that idea. So, the bus ride there was okay… Both of us were still trying to get comfortable around each other. We walked around the park for about an hour when we decided to get on Spaceship Earth. On there we held hands for the first time. (Very graceful on Sean’s part I must say. ;) ) From there on we were basically attached at the hip. It was amazing.

Everything got better, and continues, to get better with time~ <3

Thank you for listening to my story! :D

Emerald~