If You Ask Hailey: Back in 2021, I was struggling a lot. I had just gotten out of a pretty rough relationship and I was really down on myself. I was staying with friends at the time because I didn't want to be in my hometown. Not long into staying with them, they wanted to try to get me into a relationship, so they started looking at some of their friends. After a couple of days, they settled on a guy and started texting him about me. Soon after I added Geoffrey on Snapchat and started just randomly texting him stupid things like jokes and memes, I just wanted to find any way to make him smile. He ignored me for a good week or so before he finally started to slowly text me back. I caught feelings fast and hard but Geoffrey was super distant at first. After about two weeks our friends wanted us to meet so my friends and I got ready to go up to Walmart so I could meet him. Once we got to Walmart and I saw him I instantly fell in love. I don't know what it was about him but I just knew that I was spending my life with him. We started talking a little while walking around the store and at the end of his break we hugged and walked away from each other. I couldn't stop texting him after that, soon enough he started coming over to my friend's apartment just to spend time with me. We started casually hanging out and kissing, which lasted about a week. finally, on May 22, 2021, Geoffrey asked me to be his girlfriend, all I could do was say yes and imagine my life with my best friend. we didn't know each other long but somehow I already felt closer to him than I had with most of my friends. I look back on when we met and how fast we fell for each other and I honestly wouldn't have it any other way. The way my heart still skips a beat every time I think about Geoffrey makes me know that I made the best decision I ever could've by saying 'yes' to him when he asked me to marry him. If You Ask Geoffrey: Early in 2021, only two things weighed heavy on my mind: work and school. I was working part-time as a grocery associate at Walmart while attending classes in my junior year of high school. I was only 17 and experiencing the monotonous, black-and-white droning on of life that you hear about when people warn you not to grow up. Life was boring, life was dark. I didn't like the person I had become and constantly felt that there was no escape; that would be me for the rest of my life. As fate would have it, one day I received a text. It was from a friend, a coworker, that read "I know a girl that's interested in you. Send me a picture". I laughed it off, ignoring the text and returning to being me until someone I didn't know followed me on social media, with a following text reading "You're so-and-so's friend, right?". Every few hours or so, I'd respond to this stranger, the one I didn't know was the change I'd been waiting for. I was at a point where I didn't want to get close to anyone, and those who I had been close to barely knew me anymore. But there was one. When everyone else was ready to give up, there was one who just begged to know more and more. I was finally starting to see light again. I was smiling everytime I'd hear her name, everytime I received a text. With the help of my coworker, I convinced her to come see me at work. I stepped out of the break room and immediately, my eyes fixated on her, the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen. Within a half hour of awkward talking, laughing, and the warmest hug ever, time had slowed down. I was seeing the world in color once again. I was smiling when I woke up every morning. Singing in the car, in the shower, the coolers at work. I started visiting her every Saturday, I became addicted to how she made me feel, a feeling that is yet to leave my body. On May 22nd of that same year, I made the greatest decision of my life, asking her to be mine. Hailey has helped me find the little joys in life. I'm a better person when she's in the picture. Asking her to marry me was a no-brainer.