Love that Took Time

The Snapchat Streak

      It was a hot afternoon sometime in the middle of July. I had just gotten home from being the water-girl at football practice for my high school. When I got home, I went into my room and stripped down to just my bra and panties because it was so hot. As I was looking for some shorts and a tank top, I heard my phone go off indicating that I had a snapchat from someone. Walking over to my bed to sit on it so I could finish watching my new favorite TV Series Vikings I grabbed my cell phone and pressed play on my remote for the new episode to begin. As I was checking my phone, I realized the snapchat was from someone that I never had really talked too, but I dared to open it anyways. 

"Add marshallmatterr, they want to start streaks."

I'll admit, I was hesitant at first, but I was a risk-taker and decided to go for it. I immediately responded back 

"Okay for sure! Only if they add me back"

After assuring me they would, I quickly added the person on snapchat. I was curious. Was this mysterious person a 12 year old boy? A girl perhaps? A catfish? Some stunning hot British boy? I wanted to know and I was going to do everything possible to find out who this snapchat streak wanter was. 

After a few minutes the person added me back and immediately snapchatted me. To say I was excited, that was an understatement. After that moment, I had completely lost track of my TV show and what was happening by all means. 

I was hesitant to open the red filled square and turn it to an empty red arrow revealing who the dark shadow snapchat user was. A bit of me didn't even want to open it, just because I was scared to see what it could be behind the user. Many times before, it had just been a guy's penis, someone asking for nudes, or some creepy 40 year old pervert who was your typical beer-gutted man with glasses, a mustache, and no teeth. But I finally gained the courage to open the snapchat and when I did, it was a plain black screen that just said 

"Streaks."

I didn't know whether to be annoyed or relieved. But saying I was a mixture of both, it was an accurate statement. I was still hesitant though. At the same time, it got me thinking of the possibility of it still being a 40 year old perverted man with a beer belly, mustache, glasses and no teeth. But now, I just had to wait a little longer to really find out. 

Responding back I just said "heyy."

I tried to think of the best during the time of me waiting for a response. I honestly hoped and prayed that he was an at least decent looking man or at least someone sweet and not psychotic. But at the same time, I thought I might have been hoping for too much. So I told myself to accept it for whatever it may have been. 

To waste time, I put my show back on and waited till I heard my phone go off. After about 10 minutes, I got a response from the person that I was wishing would respond back to me. The mysterious snapchatter. I was excited and I had no idea why I was. 

Before I knew it, I was having a full on conversation with this person, finally learning the littlest of information. He hadn't told me his name but I snapchatted him saying,

"Justin? Is that you." 

I felt like I had knew him already and he never told me his name. But within seconds, he told me 

"How'd you know my name was Justin? Did I tell you?"

In that moment, I was confused, but immediately replied back

"Oh, No, sorry, I thought you were my friend Justin that I knew. I'm sorry."

But from that moment on I don't know why I became so intrigued by him, I think it might have been because forever, okay not forever  but for a long time and still to this day, the love of my life has been Justin Bieber. So hearing the name "Justin," kinda made it so he won the lottery with me. Even though I hardly even knew him. 

Before I knew it, I had been talking to him for at least a few hours. Discovering more about him. He lived in Ireland. He had a girlfriend of 2 years in West Virginia that he visited often, he was in his early 20's, and liked to play instruments. After know most of this, I'll be honest, I began to fall for him. But me being me, I had just gotten out of a crazy ass relationship and I couldn't bare to handle something again. At least not for a while. Plus he had a girlfriend and there was no way in hell I was going to break up a relationship that had been going on for as long as their's have. 

But by the end of the day, we had agreed to start a streak on snapchat with each other. Which was commitment. We'd have to talk to each other every single day whether it was a full on conversation, or just snapchatting each other every morning and night in order to keep it going. I was scared. Scared I'd end up losing it with him because of whatever reason. I was hesitant because he had a girlfriend and the first thing I thought about was her being upset he had a streak with another girl and she'd get on his account to block or delete me...It was nerve racking. I didn't want to come between any couple no matter how long they had been dating for. 

Although, I felt like him and I would become bestfriends and nothing would come between us. I was ready regardless of the circumstances. Girlfriend or not. I was ready to start a streak with him and quite frankly I was really excited. I had made a new bestfriend with a guy that I didn't even know. But it was more of an exciting feeling that I had. Exciting, unexpected, and new. I couldn't wait for this streak to start with Justin and I was going to do absolutely anything it took in order for me to keep it with him.