Football Season

Now our summer is coming to an end since he has football practice in the morning and I have color guard practice later in the day. With our conflicting schedules we aren’t getting to see each other as often as we were used to but we decided that even if we only got to see each other for a few minutes every day then that was okay since some is better than none. Once school started the only time we really got to see each other was when we were passing each other in the hall, when we were getting something out of our locker or if we were lucky on Thursdays football practice would end around the same time as band practice did and lucky for us we parked almost right beside each other. Yes we would get to see each other on some Saturdays or Sunday after noon’s but it still wasn’t what we had grown used to over the summer when we were together every day. So soon I started having band competitions on Saturday and Raylyn was such a sweet boyfriend since he came to all the ones he could. Little did I know the day of Morgan county night of bands when my color guard friends got me out of the house that was the day Raylyn asked my mom if he could marry me! I know most people don’t think anything about that anymore but to me it meant a lot that he loved me enough to ask my mom. So by now I have put that hurt look in his eyes on the way back from the beach behind me since I hadn’t seen it since and he never said anything. But then about a week or so after he asked my mom if he could someday marry me I started to see that look come through every day. One night when he called me he sounded up set so I finally asked him what was he not telling me, what was going on at home. That’s when he broke down, I never pictured Raylyn as the kind of guy to fall to tears but he did and I was scared. He started to tell me how he couldn’t take it anymore that life wasn’t worth living if it was this hard. I couldn’t understand why he was saying this so I very timidly asked him to tell me why. And that’s when I learned why he had that hurt look in his eyes. And for the first time with him I had nothing to say, it was all I could do to keep from crying too.

Senior Summer

Well now that Raylyn is officially my boyfriend I am the happiest girl in the world, yeah I’ve liked him for years so I deserve to be happy, right? So I would consider Raylyn to be my first “real boyfriend”. Why do I say this well we are constantly together any chance we get. I’m dragging him to my family get togethers, begging him to come help me and mom clean out the garage, and any other reasons I could come up with to see him. So of course my mom likes him at this point since he is helping mow the yard, cleaning out the garage, putting together furniture, and fixing the riding lawn mower but most importantly because he makes me happy. So now that I’m dragging him everywhere with me he begins to take me to his family’s cookouts and Memorial Day “parties”. And to my surprise his mom really seems to like me. She has started to brag to other family members how it’s about time Raylyn got a girl that won’t get him in to trouble and she can trust us together, I guess it just surprised me since I haven’t really talked to her much since once again I’m really shy and care WAY to much about what other people think about me. So now it’s been about three months since he asked me to be his girlfriend and it’s our senior summer so I decide that we need to do something. So I plan a trip for me him and my mom to go to six flags. Now it’s the day before we were going to go to six flags and my back starts to hurt really bad so me and mom decide that six flags might not be the best idea so mom calls and talks to his mom about us going to gulf shores for the weekend and to both mine and Raylyn’s surprise she says its fine. So now we are on our way to the beach and of course I start to feel sick (me and road trips are not friends) and I am beyond embarrassed. But Raylyn was so sweet and let me use him as a pillow so I could sleep the whole way there. We stayed at a hotel in Mobil and it was right beside a little park called alligator alley so of course Raylyn wanted to go see the alligators (I am terrified of alligators, well any animal I know could eat me for a snack) but since I knew Raylyn wouldn’t let anything hurt me I decided to be brave.  We spent the entire weekend at the beach, down by the pool and looking for alligators but soon our weekend was over and it was time to head home. This is when I noticed that things at Raylyn’s house were a little off since his step dad made him text him and let him know what mile marker we were passing on the interstate. What parent does that? I mean it’s not like we had told them we would be back at a specific time or anything. It hit maybe five o’clock and he got a phone call from his angry step dad wanting to know why we were running late and after that phone call for the first time I saw a side of Raylyn I had never seen before. I could see the hurt in his eyes and could tell that he did not want to go home but at this point I didn’t know why. We got home to moms house a few hours after he had gotten that phone call so he quickly unloaded his stuff from the car and told mom bye and thanks for letting him go with us. Then he said bye to me and his not wanting to go home became more obvious but I didn’t say anything, we said our byes and he was on his way home. It wasn’t until later the next day that I heard from him again but I was too afraid to say anything about what I had noticed the day before.

 

April 2, 2011

Well, now it is the day after prom. Hardly an hour has gone by since Raylyn has left my house and I get a text from him saying that he really enjoyed “hanging out” but in a more boyish fashion. Me still being on my "the guy I’ve liked for years just kissed me" high asked him out of the blue, “Okay you kissed me, what does that make us now?” That is very unlike me since I am really shy and care way too much about what other people think about me. It took him what felt like years and years and years to answer me and when he finally answered he said, "Well you’re my girlfriend of course, why else would I have kissed you?" Okay so now I’m feeling really dumb because the way he had put that, it made me feel like I should have known that and never asked him where we stood. Then another high hits-OH MY GOODNESS he just said I was his GIRLFRIEND. Woo!! Now I have been waiting for forever for him to even notice me and now after just talking to him for maybe give or take a week I can call this boy my boyfriend. Okay this just made my year. Wait no my life. Yeah I was that excited but hey, give this girl a break.  Imagine if you were in my shoes and the “hot” football player you’ve had a crush on for years just said you, the shy little band geek, was his girlfriend. Wouldn’t you be excited too?  So this  is where our story begins on April 2, 2011.