I completely skipped the beginning of our story. I was working at Target still, and my coworker Amanda had become one of my closest friends. We spent all of our time at work together, we took crying breaks in the backroom bathroom together - it was a true mental illness bond!! Anyway, we were standing in the fitting room and Lindsay + Chris walked in. I literally lost my breath when he walked in. I remember he was wearing his leather jacket, dark jeans, and Dr. Marten boots. They were both talking to Amanda and I couldn’t even speak! Just as soon as they came in, they left. I didn’t even get to say anything to him, I was SO shy. When they left the fitting room, I remember I immediately turned to Amanda and told her, “I would let that man ruin my life”, I’ll never forget I said that. A few minutes went by and he came back! I don’t even remember why he said he came back or what transpired that time, I think Amanda gave him my snapchat. But I later found out that he had gotten back to his car with Lindsay, and he said that he felt something the minute he saw me and didn’t want the chance to pass him by. He said that he felt like I was “the one”. It’s so crazy looking back on that now because we both felt that same electricity.
Despite how I initially felt though, I was still hurting from Rich breaking my heart and I don’t do casual relationships or FWB - he did and I fucked around and got my heart hurt. My own fault. Whatever, we’re still good friends. Chris found my Facebook and added me. Then, he added me on Snapchat and would keep trying to talk to me for a few weeks. I kept ignoring his messages until Christmas day in 2017. I was pet sitting for Sam G, I was sitting there with Raven and he messaged me again. He asked me to hang out and I sat there talking to Raven about it. Earlier in the evening, Amanda had invited me to her friend Alex’s house to hang out. I took the leap and asked Chris if he wanted to come with me to Alex’s. I figured since they were all friends it wouldn’t be weird (oh but it was). I didn’t know back then that Chris had it bad for Alex for years before then. I didn’t know about Dani (his ex-gf) and how they were still casually talking and fucking around. Yeah lots of things I didn’t know. But that was the first time we hung out. He asked me if I wanted to go on a date the next day, and we went to Denny’s (I chose hehe). I met him there after work and we split a big zesty nachos. We talked for a long time then we sat in his car and talked a lot more. It was getting pretty late and I told him I needed to get home. We exchanged awkward goodbye’s and I sat there for another few seconds, turned to him and said, “Well are you gonna kiss me or not?”. That was that. He came to Target the next day and I was working again. I went on my break and we were sitting in my car listening to music and talking. I was about to put on “Drown” by Front Porch Step and I told him, “Okay don’t even judge me because I love this song” and he immediately smiled from ear to ear when he heard it. He went on his phone and sent me a relationship request on Facebook - he didn’t even actually ask me!! I was like, “Wtf” and he was like, “Well?” and I was so taken off guard because we had only known each other really for 2 days. I told him I just needed to think about it and I would let him know. I was so SHOOK! After that, we started dating and the rest is (almost) history. He was such a gentleman, he didn’t push for sex but I was getting restless after 2 weeks. We were at my house and I got a shower, I was standing there in my towel and I dropped it and said, “Do you wanna fuck?” Oh my gosh, looking back I guess our first time together could’ve been more romantic. Fast forward, there was weird stuff going on at Pangburn, it wasn’t safe for me, and he insisted I moved in with him at his grandparent’s house, this was almost only 2 months of us dating. We were moving fast and I was super scared I was in over my head. After only about 3-4 months of us living there, we moved into Pearl Drive.
Yeah, we were definitely in over our heads. But we were so crazy about each other, nothing else mattered at the time. And well, from the previous post you know ended up happening. But that isn’t the end of our story, not even close.












