It's not a tragedy like Romeo and Juliet, or Cleopatra and Mark Antony. It's not a forbidden love like Lancelot and Guinevere, or Tristan and Isolde. It's just a story of two friends who fell in love.
It happened one night at ARUP. I was a very new processor (just out of training)and I got a particularly nasty batch of work. I didn't realize that with this particular client, it was easier to take both the frozen and refrigerated portions of the work. I took the refrigerated portion, and had all kids of problems. I had samples with no paperwork, and paperwork with no samples, and I had brought in a test that I had neither a sample nor the paperwork for. I had to find the samples, and the paperwork that I was missing. My search led me to a set of brothers sitting on the opposite side of my row.
At first, I felt a little silly, but then the more mistakes I thought I made, the worse I felt. I ended up beign totally embarrassed. I was sure that this guy was completely annoyed, and probably hated me for making his night so difficult.
I didn't think much of it at the time other than that, because I wasn't on the market. It turns out he wasn't really looking either. I saw a good looking guy, who had absolutley no interest in my ignnorance for the job we both shared, and I was bent on not running into him anymore. He saw a cute girl who (somehow) intimidated and intrigued him, but was already taken.
Over the next few weeks, John and I ran into each other a few more times, and I soon became friend with the two brothers. Over the next few months, the three of us became good friends. The relationship that I was in was sputtering, and eventually ended, but not before John and Justin could start dating sisters. I attempted to date, but it didn't work out too well for me. John and I attempted to hang out a couple of times, and eventually ended up having a movie night at my apartment. It was fun, but John still had a girlfriend (or so I thought). * huge side note here... This is the one time it would have been a great idea to pry into someone's personal life. Assuming that John still had a grilfriend, I started dating someone else. It was only then that I found out John had been single for a little while. I had no reason to dump the guy I had just started dating, so I gave credit to bad timing and thought, "If it's meant to be, it will happen."
A year later, it happened. John and I finally went on a date. From there, everything came together at light speed. We dated, and quickly fell in love. It's been amazing! Of course, there are the less amazing moments, but they are definitely outweighed by the moments when we can just sit and talk. Sometimes, the best moments have no words. Just John and I, together.
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