I owe Myspace all of the credit for this love story. Myspace and my best friend since Kindergarten, Rebekah. I added Jake on Myspace in Fall 2007 while browsing through Rebekah's friends list; adding people that I had met through her. I probably friend requested 10 people that night. Shortly after accepting, Jake sent me the classic message, "Do I know you?" which led into three months of constant questions through Myspace messaging. I remember telling Rebekah, "Your cousin will not leave me alone!" to which she replied, "Oh Jake's so sweet though. You should get to know him!" Jake didn't give me a choice to not get to know him. We messaged all day, every day.
My favorite question Jake asked was probably, "Do you play any sports?" to which I told the half truth and said I used to play volleyball.
I mean, I tried out and "made the team" to quit a week later. I've never been good at sports.
Art. I paint. I'm an artist.
I guess that was good enough, because Jake wanted to meet me after Winter Break of our 10th grade year and showed up in my homeroom with coffee in hand (soulmate, I had coffee too). He walked me to every class for the next three days and on Friday, the fourth of January, right after school, a really nervous 10th grade boy asked me to be his girlfriend.
