Brandon and I met through a mutual friend. This friend and I had purchased tickets to the Boyz II Men concert at the 2022 Cherry Festival. While there, she recognized someone she knew so we went over to talk to him. He was “working” that concert - but really just laying in a hammock underneath the stage. 🤦🏼♀️😂 We all chatted for a little bit, we were introduced to each other. They had not seen each other in a while so plans were made to get together soon. He looked good - alcohol didn’t hurt, I’m sure 😂😂. And anyways, I was NOT looking for anyone…and didn’t plan to for a long time. I was recently single and dead-set on remaining single. I was ready to do life with just me and my girls and I was NOT afraid to say it. In fact, I did say exactly that to Brandon. And I truthfully meant it with every part of me. Over the next couple weeks, we saw eachother at random gatherings here and there. Maybe making small talk with each other but always in a group so I did not really give him a second thought when he wasn’t around. At some point, he came up on my Snapchat - I’m not sure if I followed him first or he followed me but we started sending funny memes randomly to eachother. Somehow this morphed into us bonding over our personal traumas and comforting eachother. It was weird - I can’t even believe this is how it evolved even as I type this.