[How I met..... your father?]
Not quite, actually. But it seemed like a good blog post title. I'm going to rewind time.
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Let us look at a post from last November:
All right.. Here I go.. I'm going to admit it.. I have a crush on someone. Someone very musical, and amazing.... however i have no idea how to approach him. I mean, i did, like a month and a half ago, however, he had just BARELY gotten out of a relationship... and wasn't very keen on dating other people at the moment.... so... now that time has gone by... how do ..... * shakes head *
I have no idea...
So, i've resorted to talking to his friends :)
one of our mutual friends on facebook is someone from my family ward. She says she's really really good friends with him. So.... We're having a girls night... and hopefully, she can set me up on a blind date or something.....
I don't know.. I've gotten excited about this guy, when he probably doesn't know i exist....
That was referring to Danny, believe it or not. I hadn't seen or heard from Danny in years. Last I heard from him, he was hitting on my best friend, and I was messaging him about the complications of trying to date her while she was waiting for Karl.
I don't like venturing back into that darkness. I was still suffering from the breakup, and all the mixed signals, and it seemed that my friends at the time were trying to divide their time between Cory and I trying to not get us in the same room for fear of making it awkward. However, Cory had the Xbox, with castle crashers, and that's where they ended up. So, I, alone and forgotten multiple times, was desperately praying for friends. A distraction... anything.
"Last night I was forgotten again. I was only invited to the draper temple because I have a car ( I'm never invited otherwise). I was invited to play munchkins cause I had a rulebook ( but once that was taken care of I was never invited again )"
Browsing through Facebook, I came across Danny's profile. Remembering my little crush on him I had years ago, I messaged him, asking him out. I figured why not... I had nothing else to lose. He replied telling me he had just gotten out of a relationship, and he was not looking for another one. This was the beginning of October.
Then, the next Sunday after that, I went to stake conference to meet up with Cory, and as I waved to Cory, the guy behind him waved back... of all randomness, it was Danny. I sat with Cory while Danny was sitting behind me.
I remember complaining to Socorro about how I wanted to be in Danny's group of friends, and my coworkers and other friends remember back when I would describe my desire out of the random blue to be friends with Danny.
Near the end of November, I was wandering through Danny's profile pictures. Off handedly, and came across this picture:
wait.... who is the other guy? He was the only one tagged in the picture. Danny wasn't even tagged. Chris Buttars. To this day, I have no idea why I clicked 'add as friend.' I thought he was cute...AND we had a TON of mutual friends all from Orem High. but even then that's not a good reason to add someone, AND, not something you'll ever tell someone. I needed some kind of excuse for adding him, so I concocted a story... the mutual friend in the first quote on the post, was a mutual friend for both of them. And she told me that he would be a good friend to have. And to keep said mutual friend anonymous, I would make it seem like said mutual friend had a crush. There. Yes. That was good.
He popped up moments later with a question: "Were you one of my marching band students?" ... What?
"Ummm.. no?" ... marching band?
"Oh, then how do you know me?" Oh crap...
"I.... don't. A friend, who shall remain anonymous, told me you were a good friend to have"
"Oh, well, in that case, nice to meet you."
And we dove into lots of topics. We found we share common interests in Gadgets, Eric Whitacre, "That's what she said" jokes, and music. For a week we talked online a TON. I never met him, even though he lived just down the street from where I lived. We got to know each other without ever meeting. He would sit and talk to me online while I would photoshop. He started listening to my problems, the stalker I had. The break up. Computer problems and roommate problems. He listened to me curse boys, and proclaim myself the founder of a Mormon Convent as I proclaimed myself 'done with boys.' He listened to me complain about friends and my lack thereof during the time.
On December 4th, (5 days later) there was a choir concert at BYU, and he had an extra ticket. The people in the concert get 4 extra tickets to give to people. I suddenly became really shy. Someone, was doing what I was desperately praying for. Someone wanted me around, and was asking me to come join them, and it scared me. Using every excuse I could I tried to get out of it, but he was persistent. Finally I agreed and he told me he would leave my ticket at the will call, with the promise he would see me after the show in the North Stairs area.
I went to the concert, picked up my ticket and went to my seat. I found Danny pretty quickly. The final song had the basses singing up in the audience and he was 6 people away from me. Chris however, I was still trying to find him based on his picture, and that search wasn't going so well. And while I was searching, he ended up behind me.
Over and over again, over the past couple months I have noticed just how happy Chris's face makes me. Chris never understood it, and I kind of explained it to Danny, but moments would go like this:
*Chris comes down the stairs*
Laura: *Is really happy* *runs to give Chris hug*
Laura: Your face makes me so happy
Chris: uhhhh thanks?
He never understood till London this phenomenon.... but at the moment I actually saw him in person, I was extremely happy. I just... filled with joy. I can't quite explain it. Ok, I have a theory, possibly stemming from knowing each other in the pre-mortal life.
Afterwards, we hooked up with Danny, who seemed to be trying to figure out where he knew me from. Then I had to take off to hang out with a friend. While there, Chris texted me and asked if I wanted to come watch a movie with him that night.
I agreed, and went to his apartment. Upon walking into it, I was surprised by the size and fanciness to the apartment and asked if there were any openings to the apartments in the area.... (which one opened up a week later randomly enough).
Chris and I sat on the Love Sac they had there, and we watched Finding Nemo, and I fell asleep, having my head fall onto his shoulder, waking up and going home at 3.
A week later, plans were being set in stone to move in next door. I remember Chris saying that he was unsure if he and Danny would be able to hang out with me as much as I wanted, but it turns out, if I'm not over at their place, they're calling me to find out where I am.
I asked him, a little bit ago, when it was that he became interested, and his response was "I was interested when we first met.... you just weren't ready for a new relationship. I decided to build a friendship instead."
And that's the Chris and Laura story... part 1. Part 2 will come some time. Part 3 has already been written. :)
P.S. Check out my 101 in 1001 and see how I'm doing!
"Oh, then how do you know me?" Oh crap...
"I.... don't. A friend, who shall remain anonymous, told me you were a good friend to have"
"Oh, well, in that case, nice to meet you."
And we dove into lots of topics. We found we share common interests in Gadgets, Eric Whitacre, "That's what she said" jokes, and music. For a week we talked online a TON. I never met him, even though he lived just down the street from where I lived. We got to know each other without ever meeting. He would sit and talk to me online while I would photoshop. He started listening to my problems, the stalker I had. The break up. Computer problems and roommate problems. He listened to me curse boys, and proclaim myself the founder of a Mormon Convent as I proclaimed myself 'done with boys.' He listened to me complain about friends and my lack thereof during the time.
On December 4th, (5 days later) there was a choir concert at BYU, and he had an extra ticket. The people in the concert get 4 extra tickets to give to people. I suddenly became really shy. Someone, was doing what I was desperately praying for. Someone wanted me around, and was asking me to come join them, and it scared me. Using every excuse I could I tried to get out of it, but he was persistent. Finally I agreed and he told me he would leave my ticket at the will call, with the promise he would see me after the show in the North Stairs area.
Christopher: Cool, i'm glad you're going
me: me too...
I went to the concert, picked up my ticket and went to my seat. I found Danny pretty quickly. The final song had the basses singing up in the audience and he was 6 people away from me. Chris however, I was still trying to find him based on his picture, and that search wasn't going so well. And while I was searching, he ended up behind me.
Over and over again, over the past couple months I have noticed just how happy Chris's face makes me. Chris never understood it, and I kind of explained it to Danny, but moments would go like this:
*Chris comes down the stairs*
Laura: *Is really happy* *runs to give Chris hug*
Laura: Your face makes me so happy
Chris: uhhhh thanks?
He never understood till London this phenomenon.... but at the moment I actually saw him in person, I was extremely happy. I just... filled with joy. I can't quite explain it. Ok, I have a theory, possibly stemming from knowing each other in the pre-mortal life.
Afterwards, we hooked up with Danny, who seemed to be trying to figure out where he knew me from. Then I had to take off to hang out with a friend. While there, Chris texted me and asked if I wanted to come watch a movie with him that night.
I agreed, and went to his apartment. Upon walking into it, I was surprised by the size and fanciness to the apartment and asked if there were any openings to the apartments in the area.... (which one opened up a week later randomly enough).
Chris and I sat on the Love Sac they had there, and we watched Finding Nemo, and I fell asleep, having my head fall onto his shoulder, waking up and going home at 3.
A week later, plans were being set in stone to move in next door. I remember Chris saying that he was unsure if he and Danny would be able to hang out with me as much as I wanted, but it turns out, if I'm not over at their place, they're calling me to find out where I am.
I asked him, a little bit ago, when it was that he became interested, and his response was "I was interested when we first met.... you just weren't ready for a new relationship. I decided to build a friendship instead."
And that's the Chris and Laura story... part 1. Part 2 will come some time. Part 3 has already been written. :)
P.S. Check out my 101 in 1001 and see how I'm doing!
2 thoughts :
thats cute!
Super cute. :D I'm really glad you found somebody so awesome, Laura!
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