JAMIE WORKED WITH THE GROOMS SISTER, ERICA. ERICA KEPT HYPING THE TWO UP TO MEET. AFTER A YEAR LATER, THE STARS ALIGNED. JONATHAN ASKED FOR JAMIE'S NUMBER AND SO THE TALE BEGINS... AFTER 3 WEEKS OF TALKING, JONATHAN PLANNED THEIR FIRST DATE. HE SENT A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS TO JAMIE'S PARENTS HOUSE PRIOR TO THEIR DATE. UNKNOWINGLY, HE HAD MATCHED THE FLOWERS TO HER DRESS. JAMIE, AS GIDDY, ANXIOUS AND NERVOUS AS SHE WAS TO MEET THIS MAN, TOLD HER MOM "WHAT IF THIS IS MY FUTURE HUSBAND?", TAKING A WHIFF OF THE FLOWERS HE HAD SENT BEFORE BEING TOLD “CHILD, GO GET DRESSED” BY HER MOM. QUE EMINEM MAKING HER “KNEES WEEK, PALMS SWEATY”… AS JONATHAN CAME TO PICK JAMIE UP FROM HER PARENTS HOUSE, JAMIE COULDN'T STOP SMILING. HE OPENED THE CAR DOOR ALLOWING HER TO GET IN, AND AS SOON AS HE GOT IN HE PLACED HIS HAND ON HERS. WITH ONE TOUCH, JONATHAN REASSURED JAMIE, GRABBING HER HAND, HE HAD SOOTHED HER NERVES. THEY STARTED OFF THEIR NIGHT ENTERING THESE ELEVATOR DOORS TO A GATSBY AMBIANCE OF WARM DIM LIGHTING, VELVET SEATING AND A BRIGHT GOLDEN TONE LIT UP UNDER THE BAR. JONATHAN WAS LEANED UP AGAINST THE BAR, GAZING OVER TOWARDS JAMIE. THEIR EYES LOCKED. HE COULDN'T RESIST WALKING OVER, HE EXTENDED HIS HAND EVERSO GENTLY GUIDING JAMIE’S CHIN UP TO KISS FOR THE FIRST TIME. TWO WEEKS AFTER THEIR FIRST DATE THEY TOOK THEIR FIRST "STAYCATION" IN ST. AUGUSTINE. JAMIE HAD TICKETS TO SEE THE 'NIGHT OF LIGHTS' ON A BOAT TOUR OFTHE CITY. WITH SOME SPONTANEITY UP THEIR SLEEVES THEY BOOKED AN AIRBNB ON A SAILBOAT. COZIED UP WITH GREAT COMPANY AND THE BEAUTY OF THE HOLIDAY LIGHTS GLOWING OFF THE WATERS, JAMIE AND JONATHAN PRONOUNCED THEIR LOVE BY SAYING 'I LOVE YOU' FOR THE FIRST TIME— “WITH THE TIDES AGAINST US, WE MERGED AS ONE AND OVER CAME RIP TIDES.” JONATHAN AND JAMIE SOON LEARNED THAT IN ORDER FOR THIS LOVE AFFAIR TO OVER COME THE TEST OF TIME, THEY WOULD HAVE TO MAKEA STRONG EFFORT TO SEE EACH OTHER. JAMIE & JONATHAN LIVED AND WORKED OPPOSITE ENDS OF ORLANDO. JAMIE WAS IN SCHOOL PURSING HER MASTERS. AT THE TIME THEY BOTH KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED, THEY ASPIRED TO HAVE THE SAME THINGS IN LIFE AND KNEW THEY WANTED TO PURSUE WHAT COULD BE. THEY DECIDED TO THROW THE ANCHOR IN AND EMBARK ON A NEW ISLAND, DESPITE THE TERAIN, TOGETHER.