Ok....so I left off with my story as I was on my way back to Taylor after the crazy pinkie holding (turned hand holding). So I got back to my room and I suddenly wasn't QUITE as tired anymore. So I jumped on my computer and this was our conversation:
Delia5460 (1:02:39 AM): man, I thought I was tired
Delia5460 (1:02:44 AM): now Im pretty awake
chip sIIs (1:02:55 AM): yeah, i'm a little bit more too
Delia5460 (1:03:14 AM): wanna walk around or something?
chip sIIs (1:03:51 AM): yeah
Delia5460 (1:04:15 AM): where will I be able to find you
chip sIIs (1:04:30 AM): the usual, sammy statues
chip sIIs (1:04:38 AM): in 5 or 10
Delia5460 (1:04:45 AM): k......7
Delia5460 (1:04:49 AM): 7.5
chip sIIs (1:04:55 AM): sweet
Delia5460 (1:04:55 AM): right in between 5 and 10
Delia5460 (1:05:00 AM): k..............
so....we met up at the Sammy Statues and from there we decided to walk out to a lake that we had rollerbladed to two days before. I brought a mini package of Skittles and we ate those while we walked. I still can remember almost the exact place we were walking when I got the Skittles out. We made small talk across campus. We both knew why we were really walking and talking, but I wasn't going to bring it up! I wanted him to do it. So we were getting close to the dock of the lake.....and Chip said "sooo......do you wanna talk about us?" Only it wasn't all smooth and flowing and fast. There was almost a pause between every word. If I had to write it out how it sounded it might be more like...."sooooo.....do...you...wanna...talk about...uuus?" I think I replied with a simple "sure" or something.... Chip went on to talk about how he had never dated anyone before because he only wanted to date someone he thought he could marry. (I wasn't sure if this meant he thought he could marry me and wanted to date me, or if he didn't think dating me was a good idea because he couldn't see himself marrying me). But at least I knew things were serious. By the time we were into our conversation we we sitting out on the floating dock of the lake. We spent the next 20ish minutes discussing all the details and reasons it would be hard. He was graduating and I was coming back to Taylor the next year (but we'd only be a 2 hour drive from each other over the summer.....). We didn't know each other very well (but we HAD talked a lot about some deep issues too...and knew each other more than some people know one another after a very long friendship). I basically flat out told him I liked him, but that I also realized it might be crazy to be anything more than friends right then. So, we pretty much decided to just stay friends and see what happened. We talked for another 30 minutes or an hour, just like usual, and then we were sitting there and Chip said "ya know, I don't really see why we SHOULDN'T date" (which was kinda funny because the whole first part of the conversation had been all the reasons we shouldn't date..) SO then we spent the next 20 minutes trying to figure out if there was some sort of step between friends and dating. We couldn't think of one, but we felt like we REALLY wanted to date, but that we shouldn't yet...so we tried to think of what step we could put in between. We decided to say we were "courting" even though that wasn't really what it was either.....(that lasted less than 24 hours...the next day I asked if I could just say he was my boyfriend and he said that was fine). We walked back that night holding hands and when we got to my dorm we had our first WONDERFUL hug. It was one of the best feelings in the world (and his hugs still are some of the best feelings in the world!) So that was when we started "dating"....we say it was April 16th...even though it was technically after midnight when we had the talks. But the whole evening started on the 16th, and we hadn't gone to bed yet. So that is our anniversary. April 16th 2004. We have been a couple for 4 years and I have loved ALMOST every minute of it (I was going to say EVERY minute....but I am sure there have been minutes here and there when I may not have LOVED it...only liked it..hehe).
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