How we Met...

  Brandon and I met on a freezing cold night in January 2017. I don’t know how we did not meet before considering how intertwined our lives already were. For one my god father used to work with Brandon’s Grandfather which is how he began to tutor him in math. One of Brandon’s best guy friends was dating (now married) one of my best girlfriends. Annabel and I have known each other since we were 5 and Cody became her significant other for a few years before Brandon and I met. Which is weird because I was in conversations concerning him, but never knew who he was. One very awkward conversation that was held in Bell’s car was a discussion on whether or not Brandon was going to lose his virginity to his girlfriend at the time. It did not hit me until after we started dating how uncomfortable that conversation really was. I was literally helping Bell out with what to tell his girl to get him to sleep with her! Mind you this happened mid-2016. I remember a few days before we met, Bell had invited me to play manhunt in the backwoods of Cody’s family property. I was planning on staying the night with her that weekend so I was like sure and asked who was all going to be there. She told me and Brandon happened to be one of the names mentioned. She also reiterated that he was the one we talked about last year, but the girl was no longer in the picture. I did not think anything of it, I had never met him, and I hadn’t even seen a picture of him. The night finally came, January 29th, Bell picked me up and we headed to the house which is conveniently 2 minutes from my parents’ house. I of course being me only wore black leggings and a long sleeve shirt in the WINTER! It’s okay though, we will get to that part soon. The boys are already in the back when we get there pilling into Brandon’s blazer (which he no longer has). The game lasted for a couple of hours mainly with Bell and I leaned up against the truck while the guys continue to run after each other. Here is where the lack of clothing comes into play, I was FREEZING! So all of us in a group start walking from the woods back up to the pasture. I am shivering and Cody practically demands Brandon to give me his plush leather jacket, which he did (NATURALLY, I mean duh). I do not know if Cody had any intentions of trying to get Brandon and I together before we met, but he sure did try the night we finally saw each other face to face. It might have something to do with the fact Brandon did give me his warm jacket that started Cody’s fascination with the two of us because after this he said, “you two are going to end up together” (which we did, he let us know he called it) and “are you gonna give him your number?” This continued through the 9 months that we stayed somewhat friends (whole other story). I hoped Brandon would not have noticed because I was really enjoying the warmth of his coat, but he caught me getting into Bell’s car while I still had it on.

  “You thought you got away with it”, and that was that.