I started working at the snack bar. There was a guy that came every weekend and he always talked to me. I didn't pay much attention to him for the first 9 months. After 10 months he was at the same wedding as me and kept asking me to dance with him at the reception. I wouldn't do it. When work started up again he got a job there. I realized I didn't even know his name.

He started asking me for my number but I wouldn't give it to him. He asked me probably ten times with me refusing every time until he stopped asking. In the meantime I was getting to know him. And one day I was working and he was there talking to me when I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket...I said somebody sent me a message. He said...well it wasn't me since I don't have your number.

Little did he know that I was sad he had stopped asking me so I said...you stopped asking. He smiled but didn't say anything so I thought that he had given up. I was a little sad that I had waited too long to get to know him but 5 minutes later when it was just us two up there he took his phone out and we exchanged numbers. I had to show him that I put his number in my phone because he didn't think I would.

He said I probably wouldn't text him so after I left work I texted him. He texted me later that night and again the day after that, before I knew it he was the last person I talked to at night and the first person I talked to in the morning. That was in 2008.

One night he called me and told me he really wanted me to watch a movie that was on called Serendipity. He told me he was going to get off the phone so I could watch it but that he would be texting me asking me questions to make sure I was watching it.

I had never heard of this movie before so I had no idea why he wanted me to watch it. He said he wanted me to learn something about him. I think that was the night I fell in love with him. He wanted me to learn that everyone has someone out there that they are supposed to be with...that as you go through life you meet people that you can't or don't want to ever forget. And that whatever is supposed to happen will.

In the time it took for me to give him the time of day he had gotten into a relationship with another girl and she got pregnant. He didn't want to be with her but wanted to be there for his child. The girl he was with was not very nice and threatened him with not being able to see his child. When I found out she was pregnant I went home and cried. I felt like it was my fault I took too long.

He called me and said that it didn't change anything. He knew what he wanted and I was it. He said one day we would be together. I remember the first time he told me he loved me. I remember when he texted me at 430 in the morning one time to tell me he really liked me a lot. I remember when he'd come up and whisper that he loved me.

I remember the times he'd say he was thinking and when I asked him what he was thinking about he would say, me. I remember when he told me he had dreams about me and when he said I was his best friend. I remember the times he called me just to tell me he missed me and loved me.

I remember when he asked me if one day I would move in with him. I remember the first time we were going to make love. The chemistry was definitely there. I wanted to but I was so afraid because when I was younger I was abused physically and sexually. I remember us just sitting on the floor and him holding me in his arms and holding my hand as I was trying not to cry and telling him why I was scared. I remember him kissing me asking me if I trusted him, and if I loved him. I told him I did. He told me that he loved me and would never hurt me and he would never make me do anything I wasn't ready to do. He wanted it to be perfect.

I remember the first time I ever cried in front of him and I could tell it killed him. I remember the time he told me he wanted me to try to find someone to be with that could always be there for me because he wanted me to be happy. We were both fighting back tears. But I told him I wouldn't because I knew what I wanted and it was him.

His daughter is gorgeous. She looks just like him. We don't get much time to be together now but I'm still completely in love with him. And he is still in love with me. I've been waiting a long time to be with him and I know some people think I'm crazy but there's nothing I want more for us to prove to them they're wrong.

I can't explain what I feel when I'm with him. We are not just best friends but so much more. We've been through some very tough times, but we still love each other. When the time comes that we are together I feel like I will smile for three days straight.