Growing up Denny was best friends with Rocket so I have known him since elementary. Dennis was always outgoing, outspoken, and hilarious. He never cared about what others thought of him because he knew who he was and everyone loved him. Later in life we were in the same close friend circles but never directly friends. Every week we both attended youth bible study and over time we became closer and more aware that we were in the same friend groups. In the summer of 2017 when we went to church camp we became very close and created our own friendship. Once we connected I began to see how special and hard working he was and I began to pray about my feeling for him. If you know me, you know I have an entirely GOLD personality. So many lists, goals, and dreams are apart of my daily life and choices. Of course, when it came to my first boyfriend I had dreams and specific lists of who that guy would be lol. Needless to say Denny only matched two of those goals on my lists, he was a man of God and athletic. I did not seem to care about him only meeting two of my goals which made me start to question why. I had stuck to them for so many years and so why was this boy any different. But God answered all of my questions and comforted my heart. I began to flirt with him and tell him I liked someone over multiple weeks, and he would try to guess who it was. We went to winter formal together as friends and I started to like him more but still didn't reveal it was him. Then he was a server at my junior prom and we danced and talked the entire time, and later that night I snap-chatted him and finally told him. The following week we went on our first "date" and I knew immediately that he would be around for the next few years. I talked to mom about liking him and she thought I was playing, she loved Denny as my bothers friend just not my future boyfriend. He didn't take long to convince her about treating me right and win her over with his personality, just as he did with me. April 22, 2018 my junior and his sophomore year, he officially asked me to be his girlfriend. He has been my very best friend, support system, accountability partner, and counselor since then. We have grown together, kept Christ at the center of our relationship, allowed each other the space and freedom to evolve, changed over the years, pushed each other out of our comfort zones, and acknowledged our wrongs. God had brought us together for a reason and we needed each other in both that season of life, now, and forever.