Today waking up I had my day felt pretty well planned out. I had a class at 9 and 2. During the break I would study and then take my Business Stats class and then after my last class go to the temple to do some baptisms with my (soon to be girlfriend) Carla. I figured after the temple I would go to the library and do some homework for a few hours and then finish the night doing some get to know you games and holding a poster while giving out free compliments in front of a local ice cream shop. The plan backfired nearly from the beginning. I went to my class as planned but then the girl who was supposed to study with me invited to me to study in a big group. I did that for an hour but found out that that was just a waste of time and I was retaining any of the information. So I kept studying by myself and before I knew it there was just 40 minutes before my accounting class and I still didn't feel completely ready to take test yet. I said a prayer in my heart and I felt like I should take the test. When I sat down I got an upset stomach because I knew I was putting myself under a time crunch. I started the test and the process to do even the easy ones began to completely leave my memory. When I attempted to use excel it started not to work. Before I knew it I was 20 minutes late to my most important class... accounting! After a few more minutes I lost all hope of going to my class and decided to just focus on the test. As I continued working I felt that timing being crunched to finish on time to go to the temple. When would this wretched test be done? I walk out of the test unsure about my abilities but hurried out without even checking my score. Then that's when the good times started rolling.
I picked up Carla from the Benson building as she was patiently waiting while enjoying a book (a woman that loves to read is so attractive to me). We then went to the temple and enjoyed our time. As we were leaving the doors and back to the campus I got the impression that it wasn't time for us to leave yet. So we walked around the temple once. Then even still the time was just not right but I wasn't sure what to do. Carla lead me gently to a bench and we began talking. Pretty soon we were talking about everything we liked about each other. It was sincere and sweet. The talking continued longer than I could have ever imagined. At one point she began to look off and was into deep thought. I asked her "what's on your mind". "I was just thinking how this is nice", she replied. "What are you thinking?" she fired back. I took a keep gulp, this had been on my mind a while but I knew I needed to speak my mind. "I was thinking I wanted to kiss you". Wow I thought I had never said that anyone before! "You have been thinking about that for a while now haven't you?" "Maybe", I replied but already knowing she knew the answer. We continued on with our pleasant conversation. After 2 hours that seemed more like 2 minutes we walked back and she started giving me a tour of some of her science classrooms.
We then eventually got to her apartment and she cooked me dinner. What more could a guy ever ask for? After the meal (which was a delicious plate of fajita quesadillas) some of her roommates left the family room (there were some other roommates in the back) and we watched frozen. After an hour or so I told I needed to leave because I needed to work early the next morning in the temple (I wake up at 4 15 am). We both understood but neither one of us wanted to part. As I was leaving we started to embrace and we just held that position that seemed like for eternity. It seemed as though time stood still. After literally about 10 minutes she looked up me and asked "So am I your girlfriend". I replied "I hope so". "Is this you asking?". "Yes." "Well I would love to be your girlfriend". I started to think how lucky am I? This girl is so awesome. What a righteous woman. Could I ask even more. After a few more moments hugging we anticipated the kiss. And the kiss came! It was sincere and beautiful. I was probably a little rusty (or a lot) but it felt so right. The way she put her fingers through my hair. What a virtuous yet emotion packed action that was! It lasted longer than I (or she probably) expected. A part of me wanted to kiss her earlier in the week (we had spent together every single day together since last Saturday) but I am so glad she did. She was totally worth the wait. What a great way to start the weekend.
Before we kissed she had asked me what I was doing over spring break. I told her that I wasn't sure and then she didn't respond. I think she wanted me to meet her family because I know her family liked what they knew of me because they looked me up on Facebook.
I walked home just feeling blessed. Not so much happy that I could check off kissing her off my list but because right now this beautiful girl was 'mine'. Mine to hold, mine to cherish, mine to call and spend time with. I know this girl has faults but I honestly can't think of any. I was reminded of a very important aspect he said "Too often expediency, infatuation, stimulation, persuasion, or lust are mistaken for love". I knew that I was very infatuated with her but the title of the article "Love Takes Time" is always a good reminder.
After sitting down I went onto LDS.org and searched 'love'. Some interesting things came up but an interesting video came up by Marvin J. Ashton which was on this topic.
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