#CanIGetAHiatt

We met in the second semester freshman year of high school. We were in our co-ed PE class, and I (Ana Carla), wanted to play volleyball but needed to recruit volunteers to play. Cody was speaking with a mutual friend and I spotted them not involved in any of the other groups. He was the perfect victim, I mean, recruitment. I somehow convinced him to join and as we were both competitive, it led to a daily challenge and a regular thing to play volleyball during PE. We were both athletes so we hung out in passing when waiting between school and practices. We texted and FaceTimed regularly, as friends, but I had developed feelings early on but never disclosed them but he only saw me as a friend. Fast forward four years, we graduate high school, I go to college, and he goes on to the working force. We checked in here and there until four years later. We both had come out of different relationships, not wanting to get in a new one soon. Cody had just moved out of his parents'home and I had moved back home from college. We connected over Snapchat again, after "ghosting" each other for about two years. We started connecting much more over text and mutual friend events. Fast forward two months, Cody takes me to the Fourth of July Faith Fair and asks me to be his girlfriend at the top of the Ferris Wheel.