lsu reality
he’d been in my life for so long and i never noticed, sharing multiple mutual friends, going to the same places even as little kids, living just 15-30 minutes away from eachother almost our whole lives. we never knew, and never met until the time was right.
meeting in high school was the best thing that could’ve happened to haiden and i. both pretty fresh out of bad relationships, believing we would never really deserve to be treated so greatly.
he deserved better than getting cheated on in every relationship/talking stage. i deserved a guy who wouldn’t take advantage of me like the last one.
we gave eachother that. it was so easy to communicate, flirt, make small moves. from the second i dm’ed him “i saw you in the hallways, i just wanted to say i like your hair” at the end of freshman year. from the second he told me he liked me but hated “talking stages” because they never end well and its a waste of time.
the 2+ months before he asked me to be his girlfriend because he wanted to do it “the proper way” with gifts, a sign, and an actual connection. the many weeks we couldn’t call or text because one of us was on vacation. the many parties where he took care of me, drunk or high, whiny and begging for just one kiss, but denying me, because he said “no more” but i snuck another drink/hit.
the debate for college two years later was difficult. are we going to go? if we get accepted to different ones do we do long distance? do we stay in our home state?
i knew i wanted to do culinary school since middle school. he wanted to play soccer/futbol his whole life. we both wanted to stay with our friends and stay together. so what would we do?
we stay together.