An Unforeseen Love

First time saying the L word

Kyle and I spent the rest of that night texting back and forth. We usually talk to one another either one the phone or texting when we are not together. We have only been together for a few days and I can't help the way that I feel about him. As we are talking I keep thinking about what my mom said to me. The whole thing about telling Kyle how I really feel if it's honestly how I feel. I really do want to tell him but I mean it's only been a couple of days since we started dating. We have talked for more than just a few days but I mean a few days after you start dating someone you usually don't tell the other person you love them. Well I mean you can but it probably won't go well. 

After a while I decided that I probably should go to bed since I have to work in the morning. I tell Kyle that I am going to go to bed and that I would talk to him in the morning when I got up in the morning. We say good night and I head to bed. 

The next morning I wake up to a text message from Kyle when my alarm went off. Why in the world is this man up at 6 in the morning when he doesn't have to be at work till later. I always look forward to my good morning texts from him tho. Each morning sense we started dating he has made it a point to tell me good morning before I get up. I texted him back and said good morning but why are you up so early. 

What he texted me back I really didn't expect. 

"Well I wanted to tell you good morning and tell you that there is something that I wanted to tell you."

Great what in the world does he want to tell me this early in the morning?

"Um okay what is it that you want to tell me."

"Well, after I talked to your mom last night I got to thinking. The things that she said made a lot of sense and thinking about everything that has happened since we got together I wanted to say something."

As I am sitting there reading his message all I kept thinking is great my mom texts him and now he has to say something. Great. Just freaking great. This can not be really happening. I don't know why I always assume that it is going to be bad when someone says that they want to talk to me but I do. I never use to be that way. I use to never try to think about all the things that I said and did to figure out what I might have said wrong or done wrong. But yet here I am doing exactly that. 

"I love you Rebecca." 

That is all that his next message says. I swear my heart skipped a couple of beats while I read the message over and over and over again. I can't help but smile like a high school girl talking to her crush when he says this. I know that I have felt this way for a while now but I have been to afraid of saying anything about it to him. And yet here he is after talking to my mother saying that he loves me. What the hell did they actually talk about. I didn't realize that I didn't reply yet till I stopped rereading the message. I must have read those four words a hundred times in the last two minutes. 

"Wow. I definitely wasn't expecting that. But I love you to." 

That is all I can find myself to say. Right now I am speechless. A man that is amazing and completely different from anyone that I have ever been with is saying that he loves me. Kyle isn't the kind of man to just say something if he doesn't mean it so I know that he does mean it. I guess that is what left me so speechless. Knowing that he wouldn't have just said this unless he actually meant it. 

"Good. Do you want a ride to work?"

"Sure I have to be there at 8 though."

"That's fine I will head your way in just a minute. See you soon babe."

I put my phone down and go get ready for work. After I change I walk out of my room and head to the kitchen. I guess I hadn't realized that I was still smiling until my mom said something.