Thomas and I met on a dating site. We talked for a while and decided to meet up for a date. Our first date he drove up to Wilmington from Sneads Ferry to see Deadpool 2 with me. I remember I was wearing these cute sandals that kept making me trip over my own feet. I tripped like 3-4 times that night and thought omg this guy is probably wondering what is wrong with her. Lol. Afterwards we got dinner where we talked and got to know each other better. We had a great time and found out we had a lot in common. We had actual been going to the same music festival for years and never ran into each other lol. By the end of the night I was thinking that I was starting to like him and I hoped he’d call me again. He called me the next morning and it grew from there.

When Hurricane Florence came it made our relationship grow stronger. Thomas drove down from Sneads Ferry to be with Benji and I during the storm. We ended up toughing it out pretty good but my apartment was condemned. In that moment I thought everything was falling apart but looking back it was fate pushing us closer together. When I lost my apartment there was no where in Wilmington affordable to stay. So I started looking on the outskirts of Wilmington then Thomas mentioned a house in Sneads Ferry that was really affordable and in a great location. I took off work that day to go look at it. It was perfect! We decided to move in together there and I would make the distance to work/school work. I think I needed that push from Florence to move and break down my wall. That storm in some ways ended up being the best thing to happen to us out of such a bad situation. WE LOVE IT HERE AND NOW OWN THAT RENTAL HOUSE!!

We had went to Baltimore for my bday weekend. We were seeing different sites that day. One of the sites was the Seven Foot Knoll Lighthouse by the harbor. We were looking around the lighthouse when Thomas bent down to “tie his shoe” and asked me to hold something for him. I grabbed the little gum ball container from him and starting looking off at the lighthouse. Thomas said will you open it for me? I was like yea still looking off at the lighthouse lol. So I popped it open then looked down to hand it to him and realized it was a ring in a little bag in the gum ball container. I said not uh! He said yea and I was like yes! Then Thomas started to get up and I was like no you have to ask me the right way. Lol. So of course he got back down and asked me to marry him and I of course said yes. We kissed then celebrated the rest of the weekend.