The Countdown to 2 Years continues

2 years ago tonight will mark another beautiful memory.

Kyle called and said he wanted to see me, I remember telling him I'd meet him outside my house. My parents were away because my Dad's birthday is June 10th, and my Mom took him to Vegas for the weekend.

I come outside, and the butterflies are just as excited as I am. Four days ago I realized I was in love with this beautiful boy. He asks me what I want to do, and I reply that I didn't know. So he says to me "if you could do anything in the world right now, anything at all, without regret and consequences, what would it be?"

I know immediately what he's hinting at, but I'm not convinced, so I make up a bunch of random things for us to do. First, lying on my roof and counting the stars, but we settle for lying on the hood of his car. "Now what?" he asks. "I want to see the moon, I can't see it at all!" I reply. So we start walking, and looking for it. We're halfway up the Del Cerro hill when he says, "I don't think it's visible tonight, so now what?" I decide that I want to sit on the big Del Cerro Hill rocks. We hike up that awful hill, and end up in the wrong overlook (the first one, not the second one) and there are no big rocks. Confused because I had never been to the wrong overlook, we plop down on some smaller rocks. The view is beautiful, we can see all of Lake Murray.

We end up talking all night again, but this time, we talk about the real reason we've spent the whole night together, again. The sun is rising, and it's the most beautiful view. Kyle takes my hand and tells me that he's fallen for me. We kiss, sort of, hah, he leaned in for a kiss while I hesitated and backed out of. It wasn't that simple, we couldn't just kiss and be together at this time. We settle for him giving me his jacket and wrapping his arm around me while we watch the morning begin. We eventually walk back down the hill and back to my house. I love looking back, but I think I've already mentioned that. :)

Nostalgia

2 years and 3 days ago marks the anniversary of the first time I realized I was in love with Kyle.

Falling in love occurred out of the blue, we were just friends, who enjoyed spending time together. But 2 years and 3 days ago, we breached the friendship wall and fell in love. You might not believe me, but I guarantee you I remember the instant where I realized I was in love with him.

I snuck out of my house in the middle of the night because we were going to video chat surprise Claire (yes, this was a completely innocent all-night adventure). Kyle picked me up from my house, and we drove over to Henry, where we planned to chat with Claire, in our search for some free wifi, we didn't end up actually "broadcasting" from Henry, but mooching off of some random person's internet. After chatting with Claire, I really had to go to the bathroom, so we went over to the Simms residence, where Sondra let us in. We hung out in her room for a little bit, and then when she wanted to go to sleep, we went back into his car. Without realizing how long it had been, it was already like 2 AM. But instead of just leaving, we ended up spending the rest of the night parked in the Simms driveway, just talking. About life, about music, art, books, movies, politics, religion, everything and anything.

It was at that moment, that I realized that not only was Kyle becoming one of my best friends, I was absolutely in love with him. I had to resist the urge to just reach over and hold his hand, or snuggle up next to him in his seat. I just have this picture perfect moment in my mind where I look over at him, and realize just how attracted I am to him, physically and emotionally. I remember being scared because I had never felt that way about anyone before, never, ever.

We ended up talking until like 5 AM, and then he took me home because he had work at 6 AM. I spent the rest of the day nervous, anxious, and so incredibly happy. Around 2 PM I got a phone call from him, telling me he was waiting for me outside, and he had Thai Iced Tea with him (one of our shared favorite drinks). We ended up going over to our old elementary school, where we walked around and swung on the swings. Talking, laughing, joking about "little boy dinosaurs" and other things :)

Afterwards, we went to Sala Thai together for the first of many, many times. Looking back at some of my favorite memories of us is probably one of my favorite thing to do. What I love even more is the continual addition of favorite memories. As we approach the 2 year mark, I just can't help but fill up with lovey dovey warm fuzzies.

{Excuse the ridiculous amount of love related posts on this blog, blame it on the bluesy-romantic songs that are constantly playing at my work, lol}