We met senior year on highschool. We both rode the bus to the alternative school and it seemed I caught his eye first, because I never noticed him till he talked to me. We talked alot and soon he had to leave for Tulsa cause he was graduating early. I had grown to really like him when he left. We didn't talk for a while until about a year later and just to catch up. We talked about once a year until 2019 and we went to MTI together. We were close then grew apart. But God knew what he was doing when a year later Stephen was in Virginia work a welding job and covid hit forcing him to come back to Springfield. We both were out of a job and on his way back to Missouri we talked for 7 hours on the phone. Which is the phone call that reminded us both that we wanted each other.