How we started dating... Where do I begin?! I was 16 when I first met Alex. He was a social butterfly especially in his group of friends and I was so excited to have been asked to hang out with his group. What’s ironic is when I first planned on going out on a date, it ended up being with one of his friends. His friend and I hit it off and dated for a few months and then as all high school lovers do, we broke up. My birthday was a couple of months later and I had just started driving and I was lucky enough to get a text from Alex of all people to come over his house. My little sister and I took a ride over and sure enough he had baked me a cake for my 17th birthday with my favorite candy at the time on top (lol). We always kept in touch but the summer before my senior year of high school, Alex was moving into his first apartment with a few of his guy friends and wanted to have a house warming party. That night, Alex and I talked a bit and a couple of days later I received a text from him asking me out on a date. We had a few fun dates from seeing the movie G.I Joe with both of our best friends and there significant others at the time (yes you Claire and you Erica and Andrew). We went bowling and yes I beat Alex. The best one was seeing the movie Inglorious Bastards. He surprised me at my first job “Plato’s Closet” with flowers and told me he had a surprise for me. We drove all the way to the villages to sit down at an old school movie theater where it’s dressed like the 20’s. I remember us driving back and his car breaking and having to fix it to get me home. We finally got back to my car and I remember saying to him what are we and that’s when I told him that it’s either we date or we just stay friends. Two days before my senior year, we started dating. August 22,2009 is when it all began....