Our story began in December of 2014 at a mutual friend's house. I was just 17 and he was 21. He was so quiet and didn't talk much but I knew I wanted him to be the one. The night we met, I kept trying to crack jokes at him but he just chuckled and wouldn't say much. He eventually broke out of his shell a little as we saw more and more of each other. We spent my last summer together before college having bonfires and hanging out with friends. Our little summer fling ended as he did not want to have a long distance relationship. During my freshman year of college, Joe would text me every now and then just to check in. When I went home for the holidays, we both made time to see each other. All of Christmas break, if we weren't at work, we were hanging out together. On December 30th, 2014, Joseph got a me a bouquet of roses and wrote a note that asked me to be his girlfriend and the rest was history!