I love you to the moon and back

Brandy- We met in my living room when we first moved in, all of our things were sprawled out everywhere. The greeting lasted literally 5 seconds, I said "Hello, and goodbye we are driving to California." He was on a break from service with my roommate and his sister. Thought nothing of the interaction except, what a cute brother and sister. Jesse- I was on break from service with my sister Sarah, enjoying a nice cup of coffee. Then seemingly out of nowhere a loud person abruptly burst through the front door. Her only greeting being "Hello, and goodbye we are driving to California." As quickly as she entered, in a blur of strawberry blonde, she was back out the front door. My initial thought, "What a strange person".

Brandy- During our housewarming party, I found I had a connection with someone there. After that evening plans were made with that person, myself, my roommate, and Jesse, to have dinner on Sunday night. This became somewhat of a ritual for multiple Sunday nights. The connection grew between that person and myself, and there was Jesse, the whole time being an amazingly supportive friend. Well needless to say that fizzled into nothing, and Jesse kept coming around for dinner and just dropping by. We would talk about different crushes, and about music, movies, what our goals are, and thoughts about life. Such a great friend.... Jesse- I escaped the friend zone. #Survivor

Brandy- I was invited ice skating with a bunch of friends and invited Jesse. All my friends knew how much I thought of him, one even said to him, "Brandy loves you so much!" I told Jesse, he should go and talk to the other girls there. Theyr'e cute and really sweet. He responded with "No, I don't think so. I don't know them, I'll just stay with you. And you keep falling, I need to make sure I hold you up." So as we are skating around, he slowly starts down to my hand. He makes his move and holds my hand. That was the first moment that I felt something more then just a friend. Hmmmm, this is different.

Jesse- Brandy invites me to go ice skating with some friends. I vaguely know one other person who showed up. So as were skating, I notice Brandy continuously falling off to the side. Since she's the only person I really know, I decide to help her up. We're having a good conversation, and I'm doing my best to help her from getting bruises on her entire body. As we're talking she tells me I should hang out with some of the other girls, get to know them. But honestly I wasn't in the mood to try and meet new people. So I said, nah I'll say with you. But every time she fell, she would get closer and closer to taking me down with her. So to attempt to get a better hold of her, instead of awkwardly trying to hold her shoulder, I held her hand. Nothing special, was just trying to help a friend.

Brandy- My last move was the most stressful of my life. Things just didn't go as planned, the truck was the wrong size. People had to leave in the middle of the move, and dealing with our crazy landlords, the stress was astronomical. Jesse was there, he came, we were emotional and he was there to help. He was a knight in shining armor. He was helpful and supportive. When you can lean on someone and they really come through when things are rough it makes them that much more valuable. Jesse became a person that I could say "You are there for me, and I love this human being!" Such an amazing friend! Jesse- Yeah, can't argue with what she wrote there... I am pretty amazing.

Brandy- I couldn't hold it in any longer. I had to tell Jesse how I felt about him. I asked him to come over for dinner after I got off work. Well there was a blizzard, and it's took me 2 1/2 hours to get home. Jesse still came over. When we both arrived, we saw my roommate wasn't home. So we ended walking into town to a little pub and sat and talked for hours. I never worked up the nerve to say a word. When we were saying goodbye and hugging each other. I said "oh Jesse" His reply "what", I said "I don't know." He said " I think you do know." I told him "your right I do, I like you." He told me he liked me too. And when I asked if we would work, he said "honestly Brandy, I don't think this can work." After talking for a few for minutes he was like ok I gotta go, then got into his car. I am like ok what just happened here. So after going inside taking off my boots and coat, 2 minutes later i look outside and see he is still there. I put my boots and coat back on and go outside, knock on the window and say to him "I don't like where this is ending." He gets out of his car and we stand in the falling snow and hash out all the things for an 1 1/2 hours. After which I said "I have prayed about this, and have gotten very specific answers that this is good, and could work." So after he had his very specific prayers answered, he asked me to be his girlfriend a few days later.

Brandy has invited me over to hang out like she does every other day. And I, like always, jump at the idea of spending time with one of my best friends. The only thing that stands before me and a fun evening with friends is 5 inches of falling snow, and 20 mph winds. Like a stupid young person, I figure, no problem, she only lives 5 minutes up the road. An hour later I finally arrive at her house. As I'm pulling into her drive way I get a phone call, it's Brandy... she says, "Hey, your not still on your way are you? No one else showed up, and my roommate isn't here." I replied "I'm already here. It took me an hour to get here and the roads are only getting worse. I'm not going to be able to go home right now." So we settle on walking down to the pub, being it's the only thing open during a blizzard. After a good night with some really good conversation, I decide the roads are almost good enough to drive on, so we leave.

As we get to her drive way, she says to me, "Hey, Jesse", "What?" I respond "..... I don't know." she whispers. "I think you do know" I reply jokingly (little did I know, she actually did know). That's when she say, I really like you. At this point I've had feelings for her for a little while, so I told her I liked her too. After which my over analyzing brain came to the conclusion that there's no way we could make this work. "This won't work." I blurt, and after a half hour of talking I go to leave. As I get in my car to warm it up, I turn on the raido. Immediately the song "I'm Yours" by Jason Maraz comes on, I switch the channel and "My Girl" by the temptation was on (True Story). I look up about to leave and I see Brandy coming back outside. "I don't like how this ended" she said. So after a couple hours of talking things through she kindly let me think things through. we started dating a week later.

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