Of course, after I introduce my significant other in the last post I get to write about him again. I can't complain, I'm used to telling our story because people always want to know how the two Alexs got together.
We met in my first year. He was maybe a week into a relationship with another girl, which I found out several weeks late, but I fell in love the moment I saw him. He was sitting at a desk in one of the major hallways on campus with his legs stretched out in front of him. He was really tall. He's 6'6" as it turns out. He had a wicked beard. It was, and has been since, short but dense. The bottom is red, the part under his lip is blonde, the mustache and sides are dark brown and the edges are almost black. He had the long nose that I've always been attracted to on a man's face. He has blue eyes and hea wears wire rimmed glasses that shorten his long face just a little bit and still allow his eyes to come to the forefront of his appearance. He had longer hair then, it was below his ears.
I was walking with my friend and she knew him from the anime club. So she stopped to talk to him about the club and about life and eventually she remembered that I was there. I tried to cover up the fact that I was staring, which as it turned out wouldn't have mattered because he doesn't seem to notice when people notice him.
He offered his hand to me and said "I'm Alex," as any normal person would.
I shook his hand and said "Me, too."
And I thought that was the end of it. Until I started going to anime club every Tuesday. I don't watch anime, and I never had much of an interest until there was a reason to be there. I did this for the remainder of the year learning only one thing that I remember today: he flirts with people subconsciously. I decided that whatever attraction I thought was there, was not.
In my second year I hit an all time low for my optimism about my love life. It was one of the only times that my friend had to cheer me up instead of the other way around. She called in whoever was free, and that just happened to be Alex and a gentleman who shares a name with a rather prolific celebrity. She and this other guy spent most of their time talking, leaving me and Alex to look at stuff on his computer. I felt that spark again, but I chalked it up to being a result of his subconscious flirting.
Finally I decided to take him aside and ask him if he was just accidentally messing with me. He answered that he wasn't really sure, as I wasn't his usual type but he liked me and he was confused. This confused me more, so I took it as a "no" to my advances and I let it go.
The next day he took me aside an apologized for his vagueness. He said that he was pretty sure he was interested, but he wanted to spend more time being friends before exploring a relationship. We hung out several times over the next few weeks and ended up going on our first date - Hotel Transylvania - on October 31st 2012.
Two years and 6 days later we are still happy! I smile like a teenager when I think about him or when he texts me, and I still get those butterflies that I love so much when I see him.
And that's my love story.
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