My Story: Part 1

It all started on June 19, 2009. I was 17 years old and he was 19. I had just returned from the beach and we had plans to hang out that night. I met Dex previously because we went to high school together. We never hung out before but now we had both graduated and a friend of mine persuaded me to just give it a shot and hang out with him. My life would be forever changed from that day forward. From the first night I knew there was something different about Dex and I didn’t know what it was. We talked for quite and while and spend time together but after that night I wasn’t sure if I would ever hear from him again. After that night, for the next two weeks we hung out every single night. I remember him telling me the cheesiest comment, “everyone you’ve met and have been with this far are all apples but I’m going to be the orange.” This turned out to be the truest statement I ever could have imagine. We both met each other at the worst times in our lives. Both of us were in the very dark place, carrying a lot of pain. It was no secret that we were brought together for a reason. I knew within the first week that this was the person I wanted to be with. I had never felt this way before and I knew it wasn’t going to be easy but I was not going to give up. Dex didn’t want a relationship and put me through a lot of hard times and tests because of this but I knew that it was all going to be worth it in the end because he was worth it and he was my soulmate. I remember the first time he told me he loved me, and how when he moved for school he would always leave early to come home and see me first, then finally i remember the day he finally told me he was ready to take it to the next level and be with me. We were sitting in my travel trailer. We had so many good and bad times there, we basically survived with only one another in that trailer that year. We were laying on the couch and the TV was blue from where we had been watching something but it ended. He was holding me like he always did and we were talking. He looked over at me and told me, “I think I’m ready Bailee.” I was so shocked, it was about 8 months into us hanging out and spending time together and I could believe this moment had finally come. I said, “what do you mean?” He proceeded to tell me how he wanted to take the next step, he wanted to be in a relationship with me. He told me if I felt the need to go through this phone I could, if I couldn’t get in contact with him, I could call his mother, he wanted this to be official. I was so happy, all the time, effort, tears, and tests had finally came to this moment…