The surreal...

As I said before, Joe and I were good friends before we decided to start dating. Our friendship began about 5 years before we started dating, in fact. I have so many memories of us. The following summer road trip (after the one where we met) was also an interesting one. It's the one where I fully developed my crush and where we fully developed our friendship.
There are too many details to go into in describing that road trip. We ended up in Wyoming that summer and one of our vans got into an accident that essentially brought all of us who had been familiar acquaintances closer together. Aimee and I truly became best friends. Nate and I became like brother and sister. And Joe and I almost started dating then. All I can say is that he was a flirt. And one day during lunch apparently Aimee had asked him if he and I were going to be the next church couple. To which he replied, "maybe."
Neither of us were anywhere close to ready to date at that point. We were just 16 and had never been in relationships before and barely knew anything about the opposite gender. But that's when my crush formed and it never ended. Even when I became so upset that I ended our friendship. Even the countless times we drew boundaries in our friendship because we didn't want to spend so much time by ourselves. Even when he told me that he didn't like me as any more than a friend. Even when I started to like another guy and told him I was over him. I lied to myself. And for whatever reason, he started liking me as more than a friend.
Because of all that we've been through as friends it's still hard to believe that we're more than friends. Almost every day I'm in awe of the fact that we are dating, hopefully on our way to marriage someday. It is surreal. As if one day the guy I had a crush on tries to make me not like him, and then the next I wake up and he thinks I'm absolutely captivating. I feel like pinching myself because it feels so much like a dream.
I'd like to think that this is what God has intended for me all along. Every relationship should feel like the best dream ever. And every day you should truly be excited to wake up to the reality that you are with the man of your dreams. This is my fairy tale. Like it came straight from the mind of a creative, innovative Author.