21 And Counting

It was in our youth, on a fresh spring morning, when our roads converged. Introduced by mutual friends in high school, Tyler & Randall came to now learn of each others existence, and most importantly... that they couldn't care less. Randall was too "cool" to talk to an underclassman & Tyler knew Randall was dating a mutual friend, so essentially he was an amorphous blob connected to her actual friend. Ahhh, tale as old as time... Fast forward past High School, past most of College. Randall found that he wanted to be more social and reach out to people for friendships and maybe more. Tyler was focusing on her studies while also juggling family. Oh, she also gave up her tonsil for Lent. This kept her in the hospital for some time in order to recover. It was during this recovery that Randall reached out to Tyler. She would appear on his social media feed often and he found what she liked and spoke about quite interesting and unique. He struck up a conversation on Facebook Messenger. __________________ R: So random Facebook question T: go R: We do not talk much, but you are more often than not on my news feed R: does that work both ways R: I'm curious T. Nope __________________ Young love. It was through Randall's suave slide into her DMs that this romance started. In time Randall & Tyler would watch a movie and, only in a cool way, Randall would fail to hold her hand. Let's not mention that first kiss... Tyler would learn that swallowing without tonsils was hard and spit up her water bottle all over Randall's passenger side dashboard. Randall would defend Tyler's beauty even with a fro and ducky pajamas. (to the chagrin of Moma Noma) Tyler would convince Randall that driving 2 1/2 hours to a massage spot was a good idea, when in actuality it was a surprise birthday party at Medieval times. The two would continue to live a life with many ups and downs. Always being there when times got tough and learning how to be a better person for the other.