My boyfriend and I are technically highschool sweethearts. Well he’s my highschool sweetheart.
He graduated May 2019.
The week before his graduation a friend suggested that Jackson and I might get along.
He had hung out with my friends and I a weekend back in november of 2018 and besides knowing that he had dated a girl in the grade above himself, I didn’t know much else about him.
We shared a few words over snapchat.
I confirmed he was single.
At his graduation I spotted him from across the foyer of our theater building.
He flashed me
A BIG huge smile.
It had this overwhelming effect on me.
It felt like fear.
I think my recovering depressed brain cross signals.
Our first time hanging out, we ended up making out in the back of his friend’s pick-up in the middle of the drive-thru theater in the summer countryside of our sticky alabama summer.
We spent nearly every other day together that summer.
Between both of our work schedules, we spent many late nights together.
We went to the pool.
We would go eat.
Go to the movies.
My friend and I would be invited over to nights of him drinking with his boys.
He even let me meet his parents.
His mom saw me and announce that I was super cute.
She’s an artist as well and we spent our dinner exchanging our artwork and ideas.
Afterwards we say Toy Story 4.
As the summer came to a close, my poor little heart didn’t want us to end just because of his inevitable departure for school.
Three hours away he would be starting his freshman year at The University of Mississippi or Ole miss for short. (Hotty Toddy)
We preserved.
We facetimed a good bit.
He’d call me while he made himself tuna sandwiches or microwaved a dorm room meal.
Occasionally on his way back from classes, we chat during my lunch period.
He was very generous to my tender heart and would come over almost every two weeks.
We would spend a day and an evening together.
We’d watch tv, or go hammock at haze nature preserve.
We’d go to the movies and dinner or stay in and watch a movie.
He taught me how to play call of duty against bots.
We were always working on my aiming capabilities.
My brain quick to pull the trigger but not calm enough to also aim down my sights.
To Be Continued ...