After, our first dinner together at the apartment, we became inseparable. There wasn't a moment we weren't together, besides the usual bathroom breaks, occasional classes, some nights of sleeping, and weekend visits home.
We enjoyed every minute spent with each other - late night conversations that would last until 7am when it was time to get ready for work or class - whichever day it was; to the days Joe would surprise me at my philosophy class and join in on the class while he waited for his next class - the one time I did this for him, I got kicked out hahah!
We made our relationship "official" - September 19 - After a night out for my friend's "21st Birthday". I remember this because on the way home from AJs while waiting for the "Night Nole"- Joe informed me that he needed to use the bathroom - we were standing outside of Ajs on the corner of Tennessee St. - so he quickly ran through 6 lanes of extremely busy traffic at 1am to the CVS to use the bathroom. The Night Nole came and Joe wasn't in sight - I was making some unseen ruckus to keep the bus there so Joe would make it - within in seconds, I see Joe running as fast as he can across the street, Thank goodness! When we got on the bus Joe whispers to me "Hey look what I found on the floor in the bathroom" - I looked down to see $500 in his hand! I was like WHATTATATAT! Needless to say, he bought Jimmy Johns for all of my roommates including him and didn't buy me ANY! HAHAH. I was a little inebriated and not really focusing on eating at the moment. That night as we were laying in bed, he told me he wanted to be with me and only me and I agreed - so there we were - a couple.
Our first road trip was to Wild Adventures in Georgia!
It was the first time I had ever been and one of the few times we were able to spend the day together alone without roommates, phone calls, homework and the usual hub-bub of college life. This day was also, the first time we got lost together - haha and we didn't even realized we were lost until about 2hrs later - this 1hr and half trip to amusement park fun turned into a 4hr trip. Usually, when this occurs someone or both would get extremely frustrated but, in all the times I have been "lost" with Joe, we have never once gotten mad, angry or upset. Instead, we laugh and make the best of it.
During this trip was the time we "really got to know each other". For the whole 4hrs of driving there was never a quite, awkward, or dull moment. We talked about everything from past relationships, funny stories from growing up, and our families and friends to the goals we would like to accomplish in life, the places we would like to visit, and how we hope our families would be when we decided to start one - when I say "we" I mean separately - "we" were falling for each other quickly but "we" were still trying to figure out what "we" were at the time! Yes, we were a couple but that's not an automatic love, let's start a family, not in the least.
Over the next few months our feelings for each other grew stronger and stronger - we had many similarities and just as many differences but, each of them made us who we were and are.
At one point Joe came to Clermont to meet my friends which then turned into meeting my family as well - unplanned, completely spontaneous but lovely.
My friends rented a cabin down at Lake Louisa State Park. I had gone down to visit and Joe decided he would surprise me! I was the happiest girl ever to find out that he was coming! I couldn't wait for him to meet me best friends, who had known me through out the years and meet this "boy", I was head over heels for! We all had a wonderful time at the cabin, drinking, running around with a sheet over my head pretending to be a "ghost" - yes, we are stupid, dancing, and just being us.
This also was the first time Joe said "I love you!". When he told me this while completely embracing me, I was completely caught of guard and had the deer in headlights look! Yes, I knew I was completely head over heels for him. Yes, I knew I enjoyed spending all my time with him. Yes, I knew I could spend me life with him. Yes, I looked forward to our relationship to continue to grow. But, I was not ready for the "I LOVE YOU", YET! When he saw my face he said "Crap, I scared you. You freaked out! Forget I said anything." I didn't want to "forget" about it, I just wasn't ready to say it. I still needed time to think about it - my heart was saying, "kiss him and tell him you love him too". But, my head was saying "this is to soon." - we were officially "a couple" for about 5months at this point.
TO BE CONTINUED.......
I leave you with a picture of Joe and I - college Sept. 2007
Your story about getting lost made me laugh. My first road trip with David was taking him to meet my sister, who lives in South Carolina. We didn't get lost, but that was the fastest 6 hour trip either of us have ever made before or since. We were so caught up in getting to know one another it seriously seemed to take only an hour or two at most!
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