Love story (Part One)

So a couple of my friends have wrote their "Love Story" and since its the Month of Love, I thought: Hey, what the heck? Why not? I should probably document while its still pretty fresh.

I kind of feel embarrassed to type all this out because James and I were rebels (for lack of a better word) and probably did a lot of stupid, unsafe stuff. Things your parents and role models tell you NOT to do. Oh well. It's worked so far, so.. I guess we beat the odds!

The first time I actually knew James existed was online.. It was back in the day when Myspace was popular. In High School I spent numerous hours surfing that dumb social network.I know! I know! What a time waster. I liked it though, because to say the least.... I got LOTS of attention from the male gender. (Now looking back, I see that wasn't too wise!)

So one day, I saw James picture and thought he was pretty cute and saw he was friends with my friend Devanie, so I knew he was probably a local. So i sent him a friend request. He accepted, and we exchanged emails so that we could chat on msn messanger. We chatted for a bit and I thought to myself "This guy is a jerk. I don't want to talk to him anymore."So I did the typical Kira thing, and instead of giving him the boot. I just put him aside and didn't pay much attention to what he said we we did chat.

One day he replied with "You there? You're giving bear back bone responses" I then felt pretty guilty. After all, He was a human being and had feelings. I should probably give him a second chance to redeem himself. So I perked up and decided I was going to be nice to this guy. After my attitude had changed so did everything else. He wasn't such a bad dude. He was actually kind of nice, and thats how we became friends. I still wasn't interested in him though. He had told me he had a girlfriend and I really didn't like the idea of competing.

We did become pretty good messenger buddies, and enjoyed lots of conversations.
One day we were chatting like usual, and I remember ending the conversation with "call me sometime". Gah! I was such a naive girl. He responded back "Whats your number?" uhm err... I backed myself up in a corner! So I finally gave him my number. I wasn't too worried though,I mean He lived in Spanish Fork, He knew a friend of mine, He was my age and BESIDES it wasn't like he was really going to call me. He had a girlfriend.

Few days later we were chatting again. I liked chatting with this boy. He was very talkative, and if any of you know me.. I like to talk! Suddenly one of our conversations took a turn for the worst. His girlfriend. If you could rewind back in time.. you would see me rolling my eyes... but somehow James must of felt pretty comfortable with me because then he started telling me how he really felt in the relationship. .He didn't appear to be to happy to be in it at the current moment, and Ill just leave it at that. So I tried to cheer him up and it worked. He seemed more happy after we talked. I ended the convo AGAIN with "Call me anytime". I guess Im just a little too trusting and sympathetic of others, but I still doubted he would call.

I left the computer and was in my room listening to music when my Mom knocked on the door and said "Kira!! Telephone!" Really? Who could it be? I wasn't expecting anyone to call. I opened the door and my mom said "Its James" I was drawing a blank. James? James? Do I know a James? Oh right!!! James Morris! The guy I chat with from time to time, and then all of the sudden... I got butterflies. I don't know why, but I did.

We talked, and the whole time I was smiling. He told me that him and his girlfriend were having troubles and he rather hang out with someone who was bubbly and happy instead. How could I turn him down with such flattery? So I agreed. We would meet up strictly as friends. Nothing more. Nothing wrong with that!

I was wearing my all to revealing shorts (woops!) and hopped into my moms mini van to meet him. The plan was, Just to go to a movie. Harmless. So I picked him up at Albertsons. I remember his reaction to this very day. He was attracted to me. He smiled and he complimented me, and I remember because he used the words "beautiful" and "Gorgeous" vs hot and sexy. No one had ever said that about me before. We went and saw the movie, and after went to the SF library park and goofed off. DON'T WORRY... although James and I were a bit flirty... nothing was going to happen, or did.

That night I went home feeling so good. James made me feel so special. I don't know how to explain it, but he was different. He made me feel like a person, not some sort of object and he was so complimentary and sincere. I liked him, and I took a deep sigh and realized he was still with his girlfriend.

*********************************Part 2 coming soon!