| Everything began when I moved to Raymond in 1998. I was by no means exited to leave my friends and a few members of my family behind and move to a place where I thought had only senior citizens. I was happy to make new friends really quickly but school was so different then it was in Sherwood Park, first of all it was in English so I could now understand what was being said but I couldn't tell you what a country was. I quickly made some new friends and was delighted to have them. Among my classmates was a boy named Tanner. We weren't really friends but as years went by we becamefriends. In greade nine he told me that his bother was going to teach a swing dance class. I was very exited especially because I loved to dance. So I went and when I got there I decided the teacher was pretty cute. Although he seemed frustrated that we were slow learners I was able to pick up the pace because I was silently deligated the position of guinea pig seeing how the rest of the girls were too shy or scared to try the tricks. I went back to a few more classes and had a good time, he was then dating my friend Lasca so I put him out of my mind, which wasn't that hard seeing how I barely knew him. His classes stopped and grade ten began. I went into Show Choir and met up with him again. He was doing some weird shaking thing to people's (particuarily other females) hands, and I admit I was a little jealous because I wanted to try too. But I put him out of my mind again. The following semester I was exited to be in the Swing Dance group and guess who else was there? Yep, Andrew was, although I was not partnered up with him but when it was not our turn to dance we would talk and joke together but I thought he had a crush on my friend Alyssa. One day while we were practicing for our show he and Alyssa were trying a new trick and they had too much momentum and they fell over and she was hurt pretty badly. So one day I made her a get well card and in it I said 'Don't worry. We'll get Andrew'. It of course was a joke. He went over to see how she was doing later on that day and he read the card and he thought I really was mad at him, but I wasn't. He later told me that he thought I really was going to get him, I laughed. A few days later some of his ribs were broken. I felt bad, in a way I felt it was my fault because of the card. We were then in one other dance together and we would joke around with his friend Brett. We also had a solo together (oh boy I did BAD) so we would talk quite a bit together. Our relationship was strictly friends and that was fine with me. Although I did think he was quite good looking. In Disney land he hung around my friends and I and I got to know him even better. As we were going into 'A Bugs Life' ride in California Adventure he jumped up and picked a flower for me. I thought it was a friends flower. And I kept it wath me all day. On our last night in Disney land we were going through the shops and he was suddenly not there with us anymore. He had accidentally bumped into someone and we don't think the guy was sober, anyway the guy punched Andrew in his already broken ribs and Andrew broke the other guys nose. My friends and I were looking around anxiously and we found him later by our broken down bus. I not knowing what had happened to him got mad at him for leaving. I felt really bad later when he told me what had happened. He spent the rest of the trip by the bathroom throwing up blood. A couple weeks later there was a band concert and I decided to go with Alyssa. When we got there Tanner and Andrew were there. That's when I realized that I had a crush on him. I really liked his blue eyes and strait teeth. He really was good looking. We talked and I asked him if he had a girlfriend. He said he did although she was a big jerk to him. He said that they were most likely going to break up soon. I had no problem with that. Later he would come to the computer lab where I had a class all by myself. We would chat together and yes I suppose that we flirted, but dont think that it was in an annoying way. One day Alyssa told me that in her seminary class he told her that he thought I was good looking. That was a complete shocker to me. I then told her about my little crush. One Friday night Alyssa and I went to a dance in Lethbridge and I was really happy to see Andrew there, but he was with his Girlfriend so we said hi to each other but I was feeling sad. I continued to dance with my friends and if he came over we would talk and dance. But during the slow songs he would dance with Jen, which is understandable. I mean they were dating and I was just a little 15 year old friend of his brother. But before the dance was over he did ask me to dance and I of course accepted. Another week or so later we were chatting on msn and we finally told each other how we felt. We decided we would not date each other until I had turned 16 and he still had to break up with his girlfriend. The day I turned 16 ws the day we started dating. He and Caitlin took me out for breakfast at McDonalds. Andrew stole Caitlin's Car Keys and hid them. While she went looking for them he asked me if I would be his girlfriend. Of course I said yes, and we have been together ever since. And I am happier now than I have ever been, even with him gone on his mission. And it is not because he is gone that I am happy. I miss him a great deal but I am happy he is doing the right thing. Andrew is currently serving in the Jackson, Mississippi Mission. He is in his second area called Laurel, Mississippi and his companion is Elder Hairston. |
