Monday, May 10, 2010

Can't forget a smile like that


It was a normal day at Valleyfair. It wasn't a slow day or a busy day, just a day. "You are going to get someone from Area 4 to help you out. He is tall and blonde. You can't miss him", I was told by my supervisor. I continued to load Antique Autos when a boy in uniform approached. His light hair and his 6foot5ness told me that this was the boy that had been described to me. I pulled out a checklist and trained him the ins and outs of loading Antique Autos. He seemed smart enough to excel in this position so I left him to load and took off on my break. After that day, I forgot all about the boy, but I came to learn that the boy had not forgotten about me. While having a text conversation with someone I attended school with, I was asked if I knew a boy working at Valleyfair by the name of the boy I had trained. I remembered him and it turned out that the boy had worked with my school friend. I didn't put more thought into it than that. A time later, a tall boy said hello to me at work. I looked at the boy for a second or two and remembered his name. A time later, I saw the boy on my way to the parking lot and we exchanged more conversation. The boy smiled a lot and had rosy cheeks. Again, I went home that night and didn't put much more thought into it. A time later, I stood at the entrance of The Wave on a very slow day and the boy came walking up the queue line. He was wearing shorts and a T-shirt with the sleeves cut off with a Concordia drawstring bag on his back. He smiled and talked to me. He told me about the camera that he found and his sunburned shoulders. He smiled and talked to me some more. As I watched the boy walk away, I smiled at him and thought about what a cute smile he had. I had a feeling that the boy had approached the ride just to talk to me. A day not much later, as I was standing at the entrance of Antique Autos, the boy approached again. The boy stayed to talk to me for almost two hours until I had to close up. I could tell that the boy liked talking to me and he made me smile a lot. Later, I found the boy on the Facebook of a mutual work friend and added him as a friend of mine. I talked to the boy when he was online and he requested that I attend a party. I fell asleep and upon waking up, I found a message that he left telling me about the party with his phone number at the bottom. When I didn't attend the party, a friend of the boy called and said that the boy wanted to talk to me... and he did for a couple hours before returning to the party. The boy was easy to talk to, a little shy but not shy at all at the same time. A time later, the boy invited me to come along to Applebees with him and some friends. After a while, the friends went home and we talked until the restaurant closed. We talked more in the parking lot until the employees went home. With kind of an awkward little hug goodbye, I went home. A time later, the boy invited me to his birthday party. I told the boy that I would come as I owed him my attendance after I didn't come to the last party. A week later, I invited the boy over to my house and he said that he wanted to date. I said Oh yes of course and have been extremely happy with that boy for the eight months following that night  of September 6th of 2009.

No comments:

Post a Comment