We technically met my freshman year, his sophomore, though that wasn’t much of a meeting more of a chaotic turn of events that lead to us somehow ending up together. The next year is really when it all began. Even while we remained friends it always felt more than that. We had 10 hour long phone calls after school, constant texting, I in no way made any effort to hide my feelings towards him. It was incredibly hard not to fall for him when he prioritized me when we hardly knew each other. Josh’s soul and kindness is one of a kind and only a fool wouldn’t see that, luckily I saw it and clung on tight. He’ll tell you he didn’t like me in the beginning, may or may not be because I was very persistent when I came to seeing Daisy his family dog, no other part to that story. I like to think I was so annoying because I knew I needed him in my life and couldn’t let him go. I like to think I fell first but he fell harder trope, I never committed GTA as his dad says. Even after moving to Arizona my nights were still filled with video games and laughter till 3am, I was never very good but Josh would lie and lie about how good I was. We were still able to somehow stay in contact, even with the fact that Joshua Gagnon may just be the worst texter alive. Every time I’d visit it’d be as if nothing changed, I’d look into his eyes and be in love all over again. Once I moved back it took about a month of back and fourth until he asked me out, mind you outside of Safeway while our friends sat in the car, it was the cutest most awkward most perfectly Josh way to do it. It’s been forever since. I’d never change Josh or us for the world. I’m so grateful that he is my forever and for the rest of my life will be spent with him

I never would’ve expected to be marrying the girl I randomly bumped into my sophomore year I’m the strangest way possible. She ran into me while being chased by a fake, headless rat prop wrapped in purple duct tape. Little did I know this would be the moment our paths aligned and never separated from then on. The year after I had a forensics class with her friend, who was really bad at forensics, and I mean really bad. So after school her friend would have me help her out when I ran into Padon again. As the days went on, Padon and I talked more and for longer than I would’ve expected. Granted, getting to the point, it took awhile because two days into knowing them, I told them I was gonna go home to walk my dog daisy around the school. To which they announced “Oh we’ll just go with you.” This did not help me like them faster. The more we would talk, the more I found her around me. There were a couple times where she would sit together at my lunch table during lunch with my friends. She was really sweet and even after she moved away, we would sometimes have 10 hour phone calls and text each other all day. I really had my eyes for her but knew I couldn’t do a long distance thing. During the times she’d visit for a week, I come up and visit and we would hang out with each other and it was like nothing had changed and it felt like we had really known each other for years cause we clicked together so perfectly. Looking back, I honestly am really glad we met the way we did. I love her so much and she makes me really happy. Even after her moving away, we still kept I’m contact. She’s really the best thing that’s ever happened to me.