I have had an assortment of “boyfriends” in high school that never made it past the premises of the school. They were shorter than a month and never turned into anything. I felt like I was so behind everyone else who had already had their first date. I still hadn’t experienced anything like that. That was until a guy I used to go to school with added me on Snapchat. We had met maybe twice before but nothing had ever come out of it. We would go to our high school’s Friday night football games and we sat beside each other since both our families liked to sit on the top row. We talked a few times but that was it. Last summer we started snapchatting every day and he even came with me to my family’s Halloween party, which was pretty brave. At this point, I hadn’t thought anything was there, but over Thanksgiving break we went out to see a movie. This was the first real date I had ever actually been on, and it took my breath away! We shared a soda and held hands while watching Charlie’s Angels of all movies.
This continued on until this January when he asked me to be more than friends; he wanted me to be his girlfriend. I swear I sat in my car for 10 minutes just smiling like an idiot. It felt so relieving to finally find someone who really cared about me after the years of guys avoiding me at all costs. We had our first kiss that night too. Now we have been dating for three months and I am so glad I waited to have the perfect relationship because now it is more amazing than anything I would have had in high school. Waiting and wanting it for so long made it feel way more special. When they say that good things come to those who wait, they’re right.