I have Jared on the brain due to our upcoming 7 year anniversary in November. I'm sure this blog will be lengthy, but full of wonderful memories!!!
Jared and I have been dating for almost 7 years! I cannot believe that our 7th anniversary is quickly approaching. November 27, 2012 will be the date. I can't help but keep my mind on this subject so I'm going to take a walk down memory lane on this blog.
We met when I was 12 and Jared was 13, he and my brother were (and still are) the best of friends. I was NOT very boy crazy at all whenever we met for the first time, so it was more like the gaining of a new friend rather than someone that I could potentially spend my life with...who would have known 9 years down the road that we'd be dating for 7 of those precious years?
We didn't see each other much during that time span, only when he would be with Dwayne (my brother) and they would stop by my house to grab something or I would run into him at an occasional Fullington Academy event (both Jared & his brother were attending there at this time).
At 13 I started to see Jared in a new light... but I would NEVER admit it. He would call me quite often, but I wouldn't pick up...or if I did I tried to act like I didn't care.. I mean after all we were just friends... and I was sure he didn't feel the same way. As that year progressed Jared called me more & more, and I started like him more and more...however I continued to play hard to get...
One night I realized that Jared had left his CD case in Dwayne's truck, so to be slick I slid him a little letter in there basically to just tell him how much I enjoyed his friendship. I never knew whether he got it or not..nothing was ever said, and as I have learned over the course of these 7 years my boyfriend does not get subtle hints...or any hints at that.
Come time for fall football to start. Fullington vs Crisp Academy.. I couldn't help but to be excited because I knew Jared would be there.. so my friends and I got dressed to impress and went to the game. Sure enough Jared was there..but to my dismay he had 2 girls with him the whole night...talk about putting a damper on my night. What I failed to mention earlier is that we had talked before the game & he wanted me to make sure I spoke to him...well having seeing 2 other girls with him I figured I was the LAST thing on his mind.... so I ignored him. Which I believe this drove him crazy because he called me later asking me why I didn't speak. I told him the obvious reasons.
Fast forward another year I was entering into the 9th grade and he was entering into the 10th. Jared and I started communicating a lot more, I would notice him at my softball games against Fullington & he made sure he would call to see how things were going. Come November, Brandi and I were in Illinois for Thanksgiving with my family, and he was working on a truck with his "boys". We had been texting the whole time we were up there and I couldn't deny to Brandi how much I liked him, best friends just know those kinds of things. Brandi decided to take matters into her own hands & somehow in the wee early morning of November 27, 2005 Jared & I were "official".
I am so thankful for the years I have spent with this amazing person! We have been through almost everything I think imaginable. From immature jealousy & fights to real life situations such as divorce and cancer. Jared is my right-hand-man and I don't know if I would be the same person today without him.
