Hooked for Life

Justin used to go to The Spruce Barber shop on the same street in Denver, CO that I bartended on at El Chingon and would come in and have a drink or two before his appointments on a bi-weekly basis. The first time he walked in he had his big bushy beard and I said to my friend Valentina "who the hell is that!" For about 2 years I hit on him and made it SUPER obvious that I was interested to no avail. Justin feels differently about the "super obvious" part, lol. I then took a couple month hiatus back to PA during which time Justin came into my bar while I was away and was talking to my friend Andjela. Andjela at some point told Justin to follow her Instagram and he said "i'm not on social media" at which point Andjela said "that's why Lauren likes you" "Wait... Lauren likes me" Justin said. At which point he finally texts me "When you gettin dat ass home" lol as I began my lovely 26 hour drive from PA to CO I was super excited to get back and see where this was going to lead! So I come home in the beginning of February 2020, I'm back in town now for almost two weeks and Andjela and I find out there is a "singles" Valentines day bar crawl on the same street we work on that Justin is going to be attending. Andjela's husband was out of town on business so I was like you are going to be my wing man and we are GOING to Stalk Justin! We went out all night and Justin and I ended up going home together (No, No hanky panky!) We actually sat up until the sun came up and drank mushroom tea on my Stuart house couch. Then, he finally officially asked me out on a date on my Birthday the following week February 21st and we had sushi at my favorite joint in Denver called Taki. Then he left for a trip to Arizona until March the day he flew home he called me from the airport and said he was on his way over. I told him not to come because I was super sick and I didn't want to give it to him whatever it was. He said whatever and came to my house anyway. I never got tested, but I'm almost positive I had COVID. The next day the country shut down and we were quarantined together for months. I knew at that time he was the one. We decided to adopt a dog and we had our heart set on Henry who was at the time Harry from the harry potter movie because he has a lightning bolt on his forehead. We went hard in Denver and really tried to stick it out but everyone flocked there and made what was once a peaceful place insanely chaotic so we left Denver for what we thought was a month or two. Came out to PA to see my parents and go down south to look at houses. I ended up breaking my foot, He got a job at Brubacher ,they paid us to stay here ( I cried, lol), We bought a house here, he kept getting promoted and fast forward to present day we just celebrated our 5 year anniversary and now we are getting married and gonna have a banger party with everyone we Love and Cherish!!!! Shit is Wild!