The meeting

I first saw him in high school. I had the biggest crush on him but, he was untouchable. He was popular and I was a regular kid. Not popular but, not so much of a geek either. just there. I remember that we used to catch each other staring at one another but because of the hierarchy that is high school we did not really speak to one another. He graduated and so did I and I went off the the military and he had stayed in our home town to pursue his own ambitions.

I was going to come home on leave about a year after we had graduated and my friend was dating his best friend and she wanted to "hook me up" so that I wouldn't be alone when they hung out together. Once she had told me that it was him I freaked out still anxious about the whole high school popularity contest that I had told her no but, she did her own thing. That's usually how it went with my girl. I went home on leave we all went to a party and we ended up having a one night stand and it took off from there. I went back to NY and again he stayed home to pursue whatever it was that he wanted.

It took a few weeks but, we had started talking on the phone and eventually I never got off the phone. He came to visit me in the barracks from Florida and because of a deployment to Kosovo we decided that we would get married. After three months of having telephone conversations we had decided to get married.My Dad thought it was a bad idea and when he had asked me, "Kid, are you sure you are doing the right thing?" I should have told him no and called off the engagement but, there was something about him that kept me attracted and I got married anyway.

I never did go to Kosovo and I never did regret getting married after I had talked to my Dad. There was a point where eventually the thought entered and never left but, we are a long way from telling that part of the tale.