A mutual friend of ours and I met online while playing video games, and somehow, as a 15 and 16-year-old, we talked our parents into letting us meet. I traveled to Wisconsin in July 2015, and we invited one of his friends to come to a water park with us. His name was Michael. We didn't think anything would come out of it besides a friendship. After exchanging numbers before I went back to New York, we kept in contact and planned to have them come visit me in the Summer of 2016. That visit was when everything changed for the better.

I was coming back home from a trip to New York to see my family. He picked me up from the airport and was a little quieter than usual. We walked back to the parking garage of the airport together and got into his truck; he didn't start it and just sat. Me being confused, I asked him if something was wrong. He told me to close my eyes and that he had a surprise for me. I held out my hand thinking it was the Pepsi I asked for but when he told me to open my eyes, it was a box with a beautiful ring in it. He asked me if I would marry him, (and after multiple questions of "is this real?") I said yes!