"Hi, who are you? And how do I know you?" Joey sent me a a message back saying that he was going through old photos and saw me in an old class picture from either 1st or 3rd grade, to this day I don't remember which one. Neither does Joey. But, he said he was looking to catch up with old friends. I took a look at this picture that he had posted online. When I saw the picture of joey I realized that he was my very very first kiss way way back when I was in grade school. I used to tell all my friends about the "Little Dracula Boy" who i never remembered the name of. I called him "Little Dracula" boy because the crush started on Halloween. He walked into the classroom and he was wearing his Dracula costume for our Halloween party. I turned to the girl next to me and said;

"He's cute." and I remembered her saying
"uh huh" but that's as far as the memory went. And I remembered kissing him at the Halloween party too. (on the cheek) And when I saw Joey's picture in the class photo, I knew, Joey was my "Little Dracula" boy. So, I saw he was online and we Instant messaged each other for a little while. I told him I recognized him as my first crush/kiss from when I was younger. And I told him about how I had always remembered the "Little Dracula" boy. He thought that it was a pretty cool thing too.

So then he asked me how I was, I told him I was single and pregnant. This was me hoping that by saying this he wouldn't try to create some type of relationship with me or even show too much of an interest in even speaking to me. That didn't work. I looked on his Facebook profile and I saw that he had poetry in his notes area. I was amazed, and inspired actually. I'd not met very many guys who actually liked and wrote good poetry. Joey later told me that he had never met really anyone who even used the notes section of Facebook and he was excited to see my poetry as well.

We bonded through the poetry and also through just playing the question game. I love the question game especially when first meeting someone new. Most people get annoyed eventually and quit playing. But Joey was different. He and I played for weeks. And whenever we ran out of things to say in a conversation, we'd start playing the question game again. We texted almost 24/7 for about a month or so. On Halloween, I was in a bad situation at one point, or at least a situation I didn't like and I told Joey about it. He called me and I proceeded to have to tell him that I was okay, and I'd be fine because Joey wanted to be the hero and come rescue me. It was this night that I realized he cared for me a little more than a friend and this night that the phone calls began happening a little more frequently.

Sometime in November, I said something about something, and Joey said something back. Neither of us remember what either of us said but it lead to him telling me that we'd been dating for a while. I had no idea of this, so of course I asked him,

"So when exactly did you officially make us a couple?" and he replied,
"November 7th" and that is now our anniversary. Although later I found out that his brothers birthday is November 7th, and that's probably why he just came up with that random day. Because it was a significant day already in his head. So in November, Joey came up every weekend and spent the weekend with me. And he did this almost every weekend until Trinity was born. And we went out on dates, I met his parents at one point and we had a good time with his siblings. I remember his little sister Lola being confused as to where the baby was, because I told her Trinity was in my stomach and she thought I ate him. Lola is 4. And Galileo and i played star wars a couple times and light saber-ed it up.

Shortly after Trinity was born though, Joey couldn't stand being away from us and he moved to Tumwater with us. He assumed the position as father in Trinity's life, and of Mr. Right in mine. Thats the story of how my first kiss turned into my last kiss too. Now Joey is in South Carolina, I'm planning our wedding and when he comes back from boot camp, he's going to be bombarded with wonderful wedding things.

Thanks for reading everyone, see you at the wedding hopefully!