Lane's much better with words and emotions than me but I'll give it my best shot. Even though we are both from the same town and went to the same school Lane and I never spoke until 2021. He had been a good friend of my best friend, Valen, growing up so when he added me on snapchat I had to tell her all about it. Lane and I had been talking for about a week or so non-stop when he asked me to come over for dinner "as friends" on 4.2.21. I was so nervous I asked Valen what to do and she told me "Do not go unless you are ready for forever because he will fall in love with you." Well...I went and she was right. We spent all night talking until about 4 am. We had started the night both saying we did not want to be in a relationship and by the end of it Lane told me he liked me. A month later on 5.2.21 he asked me to be his girlfriend and we have been inseparable since.

If you ask either of us we would say after the second night of spending time together we knew that this would be a forever relationship. Lane and I love to take trips and we had an idea that since his birthday was in January and mine was in February that we would take a trip for our birthday as our gifts to each other. We had originally said Nashville, TN but in December we took a trip to Sevierville, TN for a friends wedding. As soon as we passed by Chattanooga Lane asked if thats where we could go for our trip and so I started planning. Anyone who knows me knows I love to make lists and itineraries so I had our entire trip planned out. What I did not plan for was for it to be our engagement trip. We drove up Friday morning and right before we got to the cabin How Forever Feels by Kenny Chesney came on and I pointed to Lane and said this could be us when the lyrics "Saved two months, bought a diamond tonight's the night, feels like perfect timin'" came on. He probably panicked and thought I knew what was coming but I had no clue. We got to the cabin, looked around and as I was going through the guest book I saw a couple from Mississippi say they came as boyfriend and girlfriend and left engaged. Right after we looked at that Lane told me he had a surprise for me and went upstairs got the ring, and well I am sure everyone who will read this has seen the video on how it went and how we cried. It could not have been more perfect than what it was.