The Future Mr & Mrs Bustamante

We met in sixth grade and we were both completely clueless about how much we were going to mean to each other. In middle school we were friends. Isaac would walk me home everyday after school, which for being only 12, I found to be extremely romantic. We were hopeless flirts, yet that’s the farthest our relationship would go while we were at Cruikshank Middle School. High school came and Isaac went to Atwater and I stayed in Merced, yet we managed to cross paths randomly one day. Although our adolescent hearts were naive, we knew we cared for one another, but it just wasn’t our time yet. Fast forward to out of high school and as if God was throwing us at each other, we were in the same place at the same time again, only Isaac did not see me. Shy and embarrassed, I hid beside my mom as Isaac left the store and all those feelings for my childhood crush came rushing back. Days went by I couldn’t get him out of my head, and as if I had manifested it myself, Isaac contacted me online explaining that he couldn’t get me out of his head either. We became best friends and eventually a couple. Life is complicating and we were still young. We eventually went back to being friends but people who love each other as much as we do couldn’t stay apart for long. We pushed through so many trials and lessons together, only coming out stronger. A few years later we brought a beautiful child into the world and now we are getting married. 15 years ago I had no idea a childhood crush, fling or whatever you’d call it, would grow into a bond so inevitable and lasting. I cannot wait to marry the absolute love of my life.