From Her Fridays: First Date

We met in Chicago almost six years ago. The recap on that story: We met as friends in Chi and he moved to Vegas. Both of us were kind of “Uh…” We weren’t dating or anything, think it was kind of a quiet thing. While he lived in Vegas, we talked on the phone each night for 6+ hours for four months.

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We’ve told you that story. I should probably tell you, in full disclosure, that I really liked Isaiah. Probably before he liked me, he tends not to notice when girls are going gaga over him (probably a good thing, haha). Isaiah told me a few times that he saw me as a really close friend. (Not a good sign, I thought).

I have never taken a geography course, so when I asked him to meet me for lunch in Albuquerque, New Mexico for lunch, he died laughing. {It’s about an eight hour drive for each of us “halfway”). It became a running joke that we would meet there, take over the town with our rockstarness and leave Albuquerque with its pants around its ankles. (Wait, what?)

On the night we exchanged our “I like you, okay?’s” we started planning for Albuquerque for real. We planned for a week or so to meet in NM for our first date. Instead, Isaiah got a nice fat tax-return check that year and I am still a dependent, part-time working-student. He decided to lighten the burden and come to Texas and stay with me in Texas. I thought, what a risky move, what if I hate this guy!? I’m sure he thought the same.

The day before, we both spilled the embarrassing beans on shopping for new outfits and what we were going to wear. When I picked him up from the airport, he was too cool for school. It had been a year since I saw him last, I should mention, I was nervous. I covered my face for the whole drive home from the airport and told him not to look at me. Once we got home, we got all dressed up and headed to a really nice restaurant in downtown FW. We laughed for the whole dinner, butterflies filled me tummy when he held my hand and e’rything.

We went out to see Chuck & Larry afterward and spent the rest of the evening sitting outside, enjoying the stars and telling each other how ridiculously giddy we were. {I’m sure Isaiah didn’t use the word giddy}

This is us on our first date, the one that my best friend flew to Texas to take me on.

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