The Story of Us

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched. This is our story. 

Three years ago on a hot summer day, a guy in white polo shirt, jeans and clean cut hair walked in the building where I was working.  I was outside my office and hanging out with my coworkers at the teller line when this guy stood in front of me, I didn't have a choice but to help him. He handed me a cheque to be cashed and since he was with another financial institution, all I could do was deposit it. While looking at the cheque, the payee was a girl's name so I told the guy that his wife needs to be with him in order for me to do a transaction, he laughed and told me it's his and it was his name. My bad, I forgot to check his ID. I laughed  because I've never met a guy with a girl's name, must be a Southern thing. When I went back to my office to fax his cheque, he asked me if I wanted to go out with him, just like that. I asked his number instead and told him if I'm interested, I will let him know. Before I left work that day, I sent him a message regarding his transaction and that was it. I didn't  mentioned anything about the dinner.

That was on a Wednesday. A lot of exchanged messages happened after that day and 2 days later, I met him for dinner at Chilis. I was fidgeting the whole time I could barely eat! I felt like a school girl with butterflies in my stomach.  We talked about a lot of things and at that moment i realized i liked him already! Who wouldn't be? He's nice, sweet, funny, cool, smells good and just handsome! :) I offered to pay for the dinner but he declined haha! We didn't hung out after because I was on my way to Memphis to spend the weekend with friends.

Things went great for a week after our first meeting. We met up again, watched our first movie together, 'Avatar'. But it wasn't all about my heart fluttering and feeling giddy all the time because after a week of talking, his messages had gotten less. I begun to think he wasn't really into me so I asked him what happened and he replied, ' I don't know if I want to be in a serious relationship right now, I want to spend time with my friends'. Part of me was disappointed and the only consolation was, I wasn't too attached just yet, I let him go. Told myself that if we're meant to be, he will come back.  It was hard not to think about what could have been but it was a risk I took when I allowed myself to get involved. 

Another week had passed and I was already back to normal when I received a message from him asking if we could start again where we left off. He said he just needed to go away to think because he was scared. I didn't know what to say at first but after thinking about it, I agreed to give him another chance. When he came back from visiting his family and after driving 12 hours, I was all excited to see him at the parking lot outside my apartment. He was still as handsome as he could be with a little tan! :))

Life with him involved tears, loneliness, longingness  because of deployments to Afghanistan but by the time he was up for a year tour in Korea, we decided to get married after 8 months of seeing each other and then he left for his tour few months later.  Our relationship was 80% Skype, I sleep, I eat, I clean, I hang out with him with my laptop on. We celebrated birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas apart, and all I  can wish was he was home with me. Through it all, we managed to keep our marriage stronger, happier,  full of love and I wouldn't change it any other way.

We were reunited last year and been living a  fulfilled married life. He hasn't been deployed or went TDY (temporary duty assignment) just yet. 


Every love story is beautiful but ours is my favorite.





Until next time. Cheers!