Wedding bells

The first date

 Now that you know where everything started and background information, we can start with the very first date we had. 

 We were both living in separate cities, me small town country living and him a flown from north city boy. For privacies sake, Lets call him Stephen. Stephen was born and raised in Indiana and studied at Purdue college. once done at purdue, he left his family behind and traveled down to my state to go to school at the coveted Florida State University. After him finding me online and us talking for a while, we decided we wanted to meet in person. It was in the month of June so we decided to meet at the beach. Now before the beach, there is a curve named infamously dead mans curve, which stephen had to pass before getting to me. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Stephen was quite the speed demon and got ticketed constantly, so when he saw he needed to slow down he did not listen as much as he should have and almost got in a wreck before we even got to meet. When he arrived and i first saw him, as the title entails, heard a resounding wedding bell ringing in my mind. I had just got done working my first day at one of my favorite jobs i have had so far. A factory job with good benefits and sadly thats all i am legally allowed to tell you. All i had on was a 100% cotton shirt, jeans, and a pair of black clunky non-static shoes. I was definitely not the most appealing thing on the beach at the moment. I went to the small bathroom and changed clothes in this beautiful bathing suit. The suit was black with flowers all over it. Stephen had on a pair of swim trunks, exposing his chest that was and still is covered in hair. Stephen is definitely what i see when i think of a burly man. One of the first things i noticed was his short stature and his stunning blue eye's. After talking for a while he told me about his stutter. I personally had no issue with it and honestly barely noticed it, even now i can't tell when he stutter's. We had so much fun playing in the water, we stayed til dark and hid from the cops because there is a beach curfew in my small town and we were way beyond that. I begged him to stuff me in his car and just take me home with him. It was definitely love at first sight and i wanted nothing more than to just be with him. My home life was nothing short of awful and had always been that way. i never knew what a clean home was like or a steady home. Always in fear of losing the house or the land because we could not afford everything on our one income. Mom chose to stop working so we only had dad's income because mom had mental issues she would rather not face and just continue to dwell in her problems rather than let anyone help. I wont go into full detail right now, but i will say it was so bad that a friend called child protective services on my parents and forced them to make the house a little better and to give the family a therapist. I was sadly the only one who took them up on the offer but i had a lot going on and knew i needed the help. That therapist saved me from dying many times and i wish with all my heart i could find her and thank her and tell her where i am now in life. She would be so proud i just know she would. Anyways, back to the love birds. after we said our goodbye's we stayed up all night on camera talking and on the phone. I was absolutely smitten and apparently so was he. We established some ground rule's like bedtime and some other healthy habit's. He also sang me to sleep and helped me calm my mind. That first date was the start of something beautiful.