Yes hello pls tell me how you and da boyf met I wanna hear CUTE THINGS
omg so it is honestly so cute but it’s gonna take forever PREPARE YOURSELF
(gonna publish this so that kate outerspacecake can see this because i’ve been meaning to tell her this too)
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idk if you knew this but after high school i took a gap year, lived in england in the fall, did some cool stuff. my best friend from high school jacob was going to qu, we were super close esp in senior year, and he was actually kinda anxious about being without me (our relationship was kinda weird) and he was anxious about starting at qu. i left for england and he would text me all the time and i was like GO MAKE FRIENDS!
eventually he did, through game club, and he talked about them a bit sometimes, one of the first ones he mentioned was this kid named john. and i was like yes i am so glad you made the friend, thank u person named john for befriending my friend in his time of need. i don’t know if there was much else, i was kinda busy living in england, went to a ball and met a british boy and subsequently got brutally dumped by said british boy, learned a lot a lot about myself and life etc. early on in the fall back when jacob missed me SO MUCH and wasn’t liking qu quite yet, he made plans to come visit me my last week in england, it was really really awesome that he did that for me, esp since by december i was crazy homesick and borderline depressed, so jacob coming for the last week really helped me out.
the week before he came, we were talkin on facebook about stuff and he had john over (i think that’s how it went) and he was like yeah i’m with john and i was like let me talk to him! so john came on facebook chat and like the one thing i knew about him was that he was from milford and i’m sure we’re all in agreement here that milford is hell on earth so man, literally the first time i talked to him, i was like MILFORD SUCKS and i don’t know why he didn’t immediately start hating me but anyway then i was like well i’d send you a friend request but that’d be weird and he was like nah go for it! i just checked the electronic records, that was december 8th. almost 7 months ago, holy cow.
i probably did some minimal creeping, was like, alright, he’s cute i guess, seems cool. didn’t really think about it that much. i was finishing up my school work, jacob came, we did stuff, packed, flew home december 22nd. slept basically until christmas, saw all my friends while they were home, finished college apps, new years parties and finally got the closure i needed from andrew (another story lol), it was a busy couple weeks, end of december.
then it stopped being busy, all my friends went back to school and i was still at home. my gap year plans hadn’t really extended much farther than england, there were some possibilities but nothing really definite yet, so i was just kinda bummin for awhile. jacob and i were hanging out a lot, especially before qu started again. at one point early in january, i was at jacob’s house hanging out with him and his sister, and i asked them when all their friends were coming back to qu, and they told me it was the third weekend in january. at this point in my life i was really bored and only ever hung out with jacob and missed my other friends, so i was like please can i meet your qu friends, i’m already facebook friends with john, i really want to meet some new people. and they were like yeah absolutely, and jacob’s sister gave me john’s tumblr. ACTUALLY WOW IT WAS THE END OF DECEMBER i always thought it was january, thank you facebook for keeping absolutely everything, on december 30th i commented on one of his statuses and said “now we’re tumblr friends whether you like it or not.”
why is this getting so long.
so we followed each other on tumblr, and he always reblogged long sets of questions, so i would send him some and sometimes he sent me some back and we did that for awhile, got to know each other a bit, but i don’t think we talked much beyond that. at this point i was thinking, well, i’m bored af, this guy’s cool and cute and when i meet him i’m going to have a crush on him but that’s just because i’m bored and he’s someone new. like, i was preparing myself for the inevitable, i knew that that was going to happen. and i kept saying to jacob that i wanted to meet his friends, i wanted to meet john. at this point it is worth mentioning that one of the questions i asked him (also i’ll come clean i asked him anonymous questions too smh) was like what do you like in a girl and one of the things he said was brown hair it was like 3 am and i hadn’t even met this kid yet but i read that and was like that’s it there’s no hope for me i should just give up now.
another anonymous question i asked at some point (but i can’t seem to find on his blog anymore) asked whether he was over his ex and he said no and that is 99% the reason i really thought i had absolutely no chance with him.
january 18th was when we met. the night before my parents had been out of town and i’d had a mini house party that ended up being very stressful because SOMEONE (cough nate feeley cough) was a total dick to me and the circumstances were just really stressful and the next day i had to clean up and was very very stressed about my parents finding out, but they didn’t B) that night was when jacob said i could come meet all his qu friends, so i basically spent the whole day stressin my house party, and then i went to jacob’s and was nervous about meeting his friends, and i was really really tired and afraid that my parents would call at any second to say they found out, and so i was not the best version of myself that night, haha.
i had dinner at jacob’s and met one of his friends that was there, and i asked super casual about john. john was working til 11, but we were gonna go pick him up and then hang out at qu with a bunch more people. i was trying to be cool but was way nervous, and got in the car and we drove there and parked and waited for him to get out of work and i was sitting there and then i saw him through the window, and i swear to god it happened in slow motion, i saw him walking and a voice in my head said, “that’s him. that’s the guy.”
the car was already full so he had to lie across the three guys in the backseat and it was very very funny and i think that was my first real impression of him, that he made everything fun. they were yelling in the back and things were crazy and i was just sitting shotgun like i’m already in way over my head. at some point, when they calmed down slightly, jacob introduced us, like john this is my friend charlotte, you know. john was directly behind me, so i turned around and looked at him in the crack between the seat and the door and i said something like “yeah, we already know each other kinda” and we made eye contact for a second and i blushed, and i was very grateful that it was dark in the car.
the rest of the night was a blur, honestly. we got to john’s room so he could change, and then like….this is so sad, but when he had gotten back to qu before work, his sister had filled his fish’s bowl all the way to the top, xander, and at some point when john was gone, xander had literally jumped out of the bowl onto the desk and like…committed suicide. it was so sad but so funny at the same time and i didn’t know if i should laugh and we had a funeral for it and flushed it down the toilet. then john had locked himself out of him room so he had to call his roommate to let him in, and while we were waiting, we all sat in the hallway and talked. he just had this way of talking, like, he talked a lot and talked fast and there was something about how he just seemed to be smiling the whole time we were sitting there, i couldn’t help but smile too.
we hung out for awhile in this bigger group after that, and i was so tired and intimidated, like being in a group of people who were already friends and i was here like jacob’s rando friend crashing their party, i tried not to say much. at one point they ordered pizza, and i went over to john and took a piece of his without asking and he was like hey and i was like hey thanks and he was like haha np and i ate it in the corner silently i was so weird that night
i don’t remember, i was so tired and shy, jacob took me home and i was like, that was cool, thanks for letting me come. and he asked me what i thought of john and i was like he’s cool, he’s really cool. so i got home and crawled into bed, it was the middle of january and there was two feet of snow on the ground and it had been below freezing for weeks and i lay in bed remembering listening to him talk and hearing his voice and i felt warmer than i had in a long time.
:)
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the story of how we got together would take like equally as long to write (this took me more than an hour) and you just asked for how we met, haha. (i mean, i’ll tell you, but i’d rather make it a separate ask, give myself a little break.) i hope this was cute enough for you :)
