How to be a heartbreaker

Part 2 Chapter 2

I don't remember what drew me into the soldier on that dating website. I honestly have no idea. I just remember him being beautiful and having a daughter. I remember his name. Ty Raines.

I remember the weekend I met him. It happened to be the same weekend I caught the brides bouquet at my cousins wedding, ironic right?

I always told myself to stay away from those army dudes, they would only break your heart. For some odd reason, I didn't listen this time.

We messaged back and forth for a while and then moved over to snapchat. Things got serious from there.

He told me he was in Louisiana for the month training for his job in the army. I honestly still have no idea what he did in the army.

I will never forget having him tell me that he was going to fall in love with me. We hadn't even met yet. Was he crazy?!

I don't remember exactly what brought up the nickname. We had hit it off so well that I just didn't think anything about it. He called me PRINCESS. Something no one had done since my stepdad passed away in 2013.

I was somehow 100% okay with that. I think that was my mind telling me "hey this dudes different."

Or so I thought.

We had so much in common. He hated Taylor Swift and thought Selena Gomez was the hottest girl ever, just like me.

He wanted to travel.

He wanted to live by the ocean.

He wanted marriage.

He wanted more children.

HE WANTED ME.

Ending our conversation that first night was hard. Neither of us wanted to stop talking, but we both had to be up at 5 am to get ready for work. He gave me his number and I did a happy dance because we were moving forward.

The next morning I texted him, or he texted me I can't remember. Either way we still continued to talk. We still continued to get to know each other. We still continued to fall in love.

I remember one moment while I was taking a hot bath, we had 3 different conversations going. One on texting, one on snapchat texting and then the other sending snapchats back and forth. I don't know why I remember that but I do.

That night we had our first FaceTime call. That night I got to see his beautiful face away from a picture on snapchat. I got to see him smile at something I was saying. Or laugh at something I was doing. I was a middle schooler with one of those crushes.

He called me late that night, like I'm talking midnight late. I didn't even care that I had to be up at 4 am.

He'd wake me up and laugh at my reaction to the brightness of my screen. God I loved making him smile. I loved watching that dimple pop up.
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Oh those sweet dimples that I miss so much. You'll realize that I haven't posted pictures of either of these boys. I'm doing this because if you're in a similar situation, you're allowed to picture who you want.

-Kayla