Before I begin my narration, quick disclaimer, I'm an introvert and if there's any introvert reading this, you will attest to the fact that we do a lot of "self talk". That being said, please don't get weirded out when I refer to talking to myself while I narrate this story! Ok now to the meat of things... It must have been one of our African Student's Galas or something similar, I do not quite remember, all I remember is seeing Her! There was something familiar about her, I had to think...where had i seen her before. Then it came to me. I had seen her picture in passing while an old friend was scrolling through their social media to bring my attention to someone else he was referring to. Long story short, it wasn't the first time i was seeing that face and at once the same thoughts/questions ran through my mind...what does she sound like? Does she have a personality as cute as her face? Is she a 'self talker' like me? or maybe she is just a typical 'slay queen' with a pretty face! This was my chance to answer all those questions at one go and i wasn't going to 'eff-up' the opportunity. So as soon as she took a break from dancing and took a sit, I must have ran up to her but i just found myself introducing myself and 'shalaye-ing(talking too much)'. Lucky for me, she wasn't a mean girl AT FIRST. Not too sure what i said but i got her number yay!!! lol Plenty txt messages over a couple weeks later we decide to go grab a bite to eat. And then a movie or two later and many many more txts and bonding. Remember when i said not a mean girl at first! Yup that didn't last as long as i would've hoped. Out of the blue, or maybe by some faults of mine, I was packaged and put in the 'friend-zone' container! Like who does that???🙄 Anyway skip forward about 3- 4years later, we had always been in contact as I would always say she is the one that got away! We decided again to grab a bite to eat together when she came back home from school for the holidays. We caught up.... well we were always caught up i think but at least this time she was right there in all her Glory! lol. Anyways the txt message started being 24/7 and communication was on 'steroids' i would say. As days went by, I knew this is my best friend and the person I would never want to spend a day without! Almost like i completely depended on her and it was scary! Needless to say, I knew once i had the chance, even a little opening, I would be on bended knees. So roughly two years ago, on Christmas eve, I built a shrine fit for a goddess and lured her into it, and then "I bend the knee" lol. She said YES and here is the consequence 😁

“The story of us” where do I even begin. With our history I really didn’t think we’d end up here but guess who always knew and said it? You guessed right “my husband”! Omg I still can’t get use to saying this… he really is my husband and my amazing life partner. But things weren’t always rosie lol. When we met years ago, we had a good spark, there was passion, fun, intense conversations, great times together. And if you know me you know I can be very inquisitive I like to be in the know. Well… turns out I got to be too much in the know… found out he was still hung up on his Ex and there was some drama there and if you know me, you know I’m not one to put up with drama especially emotional drama my heart can’t take it lol so obviously I bounced 😆. We kept in touch anyways still talked once in a while and we kinda stayed friends. Whenever we met somewhere and said Hi, he’d make sure to remind me I was mean and “broke his heart”! Well I didn’t… just couldn’t be second fiddle you know 😝. Then comes another round! While I was in school in South Carolina we started talking a lot more, I mean I would stay up late just chatting, even when I had tests the next day and it just felt really good “my happy place”. When I visited charlotte one of the weekends we went on a “date” and I say this in quotes coz to me I was just hanging out catching up but to him it was a date (so he said, and one he was apparently looking forward to )😆. But no doubts though I was already catching feelings but couldn’t let him know that of course. Anyways fast forward… this day I’m back in school and we’re texting and I somehow suggest that it would be nice to see him phone talk, nothing serious and bam 💥 he gets off work at 10pm I think or was it 11pm and decides to surprisingly show up at my door! I know… movie cheesy stuff but it got me 🥰, and so started this story of us. We fell in love with Us and he built me a shrine and proposed and of course I said yes to forever with my person, my happy place, et voila… here we are celebrating what we have built and continue to built. 🫶🏽🥰