We met when I was 13 and he was 14 years old in middle school. I was talking to a friend at her locker in between classes and Truston's locker was next to hers. I know where you think this is going, a love at first sight cliche but our story takes a turn. I had my hand on the lockers to brace myself up, where my finger was just barely in his open locker.. the door caught my finger when he closed it. I looked at him after the painful surprise, immediately thinking he was really cute but he apologized, a lot, and left.

I hadn't seen this cute boy since that day with the locker, I didn't even know his name. My freshman year of high school, Truston and I had a mutual friend in my friend group and they were goofing off. He had picked her up, princess style and had tried to sit with her. Needless to say it did not work; they both ended up laughing on the floor. After the bell rang we all went to our classes; I saw Truston a lot sooner than I thought I would. I walked into my 4th class of the day and he was sitting on the opposite side of the room next to a soundboard. The class was an advanced Jazz Choir where I sang and he was the sound tech: the person who controlled the microphone volume and the speakers and everything. We just really hit it off from there, spending everyday in class and lunch together.

I had asked Truston if he would want to walk me home one day from school, I had only lived 4-5 blocks down the way and I wanted to find a way to spend time with him outside of school. Things got a bit awkward so I tried my best to come up with an ice breaker. It ended up with me teasing him a little about almost dropping our mutual friend the day he picked her up. It went along the lines of questioning his strength since I was a little bit heavier than our mutual friend and she was quite small. He then pursued to pick me up and the minute I started laughing saying, "okay okay put me down!" he lifted me up just a tad bit where gravity caused me to lean down and he kissed me. He put me back down and after a moment (not a long one may I add) of collecting myself, I got up on my tip toes and kissed him. Even though things were starting between us, we didn't officially start dating until September 30, 2014.

We had been dating for almost 4 years when he started thinking about proposing to me. Sure we were 19 and 20 but we had been dating for so long where we knew we were going to spend forever together. Sometimes you just know. It was New Year's Eve and we were at a small party with some friends to do what young adults do and have some fun after what had been a very tough year for both of us. We put up the ball drop on the TV and as the clock started counting down from 10, Truston told me to come stand with him and as all of us yelled "3! 2! 1!" we started cheering and I looked over at Truston. He was down on one knee with a ring in his hand.