We’re getting married!

I graduated from Dothan High School, where I first met Austin. If you told me then I’d be marrying him one day I would have laughed, only because of what was to come. October 21st, 2012 Austin messaged me on Facebook. I was the new girl at school. We small talked and he gave me his number but I never texted him. I was dating his friend at the time. We never became friends in school, yet he was so nice to me when I first started school. He dated most of my friends but we never talked again after 9th grade. Our senior year, a girl he went with was cheating on him, so naturally I overstepped. I had this feeling that he was a really good guy, and I couldn’t watch her treat him like that. So, I messaged him. He ignored me. I messaged again. He responds with “I don’t really want to talk about this with you”. I tried to warn him, but he didn’t listen and got hurt. We graduated, I started college, and got a job at Dick’s Sporting Goods in 2016. When I go for my interview, Austin was there too. God only knows how, but we became friends working together. We would hang out sometimes, but nothing came of it. I’m impatient when it comes to men, so I started dating a guy who told me I couldn’t be friends with Austin, (I was dumb) and me and Austin never spoke again. Once we broke up it had already been 2 years. Then one day in 2018 Austin and I were reconnected through mutual friends and instantly became close again. We were best friends. He would get petty when I went on dates with other guys, but never told me why. FINALLY, Austin makes his feelings known, and sends me “anonymous” flowers on Christmas. He soon tells me they’re from him because he didn’t want other guys taking credit. Let it be known that I did not want to date Austin. I didn’t want to lose our friendship. But, I was coerced by his friend (thanks Jordan) because I had feelings for him for a long time. Moral of the story, 3 days later we were dating, and 3 months later we were engaged. When you know you know.

Much like the rest of our relationship, our proposal was nothing less than unique and dysfunctional, and heres why: So a few days before Austin and I went on our planned weekend getaway to Gulf Shores back in March 2019, I was at Austin’s apartment. We were in his room and laying on his bed talking. I was facing Austin, away from his nightstand. Mid conversation Austin reaches around me and took something off his nightstand and put it in the drawer. I obviously wanted to know what it was, but Austin refused to let me turn around and open the drawer. I was getting heated because I wanted to know what he had to hide from me. He could tell I was getting genuinely mad, so he let me open the drawer and there was a little black box. I took it out and looked at him and asked, “What is this?”. And he said “What do you think it is?”. I wasn’t 100% sure, maybe it was just a necklace or earrings or something, so I opened it. Yes. I found the ring before the proposal. It happened. I cried. Super dramatic, blah blah blah. So Austin kept it hostage because he was determined to actually propose and he wasn’t going to do it until he had my parents’ permission. So he waited, got their permission, and a week or so later we went on our trip. When we got to the beach we went to lunch at one of his reccomended places, then we took a stroll on the beach. I sat down and just enjoyed the peace in a deserted spot where it was just the two of us. He kept hovering over me and wanted me to get up. I didn’t realize why lol. So he gave up and sat down next to me. As we were sitting in the sand he looked at me, took the ring out of his pocket, and I asked, “What are you doing with that?” and he just laughed and said “Well what do you think I’m doing with it?” And just simply asked if I would marry him. I wrote, “Yes” in the sand. Later I joked about how he didn’t get down on one knee and he said “Well, I couldn’t get your butt out of the sand”. To this day Austin is livid I found the ring.

She caught my attention freshman year. We had History class together. I messaged her one night but she was “dating” one of my friends. We really didn’t talk what so ever in high school (I thought she hated me). After high school we applied for jobs at DSG (unknowingly that we both had). When I went to the interview I saw a very beautiful familiar face. That face just happened to be Kaylie. We both ended up getting the jobs we applied for and through work began to talk as friends. We went out to eat at a few places with Jose. Yes, with all this going on, every time we talked I started falling for her. Kaylie eventually left DSG and I never thought we would talk much after that. Man was I wrong. I’ve never been so happy to be wrong. We ended up hanging out again with mutual friends and becoming close again after TWO WHOLE YEARS (thanks to an ex). Just seeing how she acted around our friends and how caring she was made me fall for her again. Through this time I had gotten frustrated because I didn’t really know how to tell her that I had feelings for her while she was going on dates with other guys. I just wanted to see her happy. One day I decided to send her flower anonymously before Christmas just to try to spark something. When I ordered the flowers the day before they were sent I decided to tell her about them so no one would try to take credit. When she found out that I wanted a relationship with her she was so against it. I even had Jordan try to help me CONVINCE her to give us a shot, knowing it could ruin our friendship. She eventually gave in. The Saturday after that Christmas we ended up going to Calloway Gardens to see the lights as our first date. I knew I wanted to marry her after our very first date. We have had so many fun adventures since that day and I am so happy that my soulmate gave me the chance to show her what true happiness is and not just get jerked around and toyed with. I truly CAN NOT wait to marry my bestfriend. I love you Kaylie Marie ♥️.