Many of you know about the track system at BYU-Idaho, if not
you can ask me about it later. Anyways, Caleb was assigned Fall/Winter and I am
Winter/Spring. This winter was Caleb’s first semester up here and he became
friends with Victoria Race, who I am also friends with. However, I wasn’t up
here for the winter semester, I was at home working in the Special Needs
classroom and loving it. I didn’t plan on coming back for the spring semester.
Caleb was planning on going home since we isn’t actually on track for the
spring, but he decided to stay. About three weeks before spring semester
started I decided I needed to come back to Rexburg. I didn’t know why, but I
knew that this is what the Lord wanted me to do. So I moved back to Rexburg and
wasn’t happy about it.
On May 4th I made plans with a friend, Kasey, to
go to a bonfire later that night. I also made plans to go to the hotsprings
with my roommate and some of her friends. Realizing I wouldn’t be able to make
the bonfire if I went to the hotsprings I opted out of that activity. Then I
was left with no plans for the day. I texted Victoria and asked what she was up
to. She told me she was going to et Kiwi Loco with her friend Caleb and that I
should come. Now, any of you who know me know that I am not one to just invite
myself into things, but I went anyways. When I started talking to Caleb I got
butterflies. I wanted him to ask me out on a date so badly! That little stinker
didn’t ask though! That’s a running theme in our story. It was weird, while I
was spending time with him that day I realized that I was being myself the
whole time, I never put on a face or tried to act any differently around him. I
told Victoria that I was crushing on him and she replied that I should ask him
on a date…but I don’t do that.
On Sunday his apartment did a fire/movie in their backyard.
I went and tried to talk to him. I asked if he was going to come watch the
movie and he said he’d be over later after he was done making a s’more. I left
a spot open for him next to me…he never came…eventually Victoria laid in the
spot I’d left open. Caleb claims that he came over later and laid behind me
trying to look as lonely as possible…but he was behind me…I couldn’t see him!
The next week, on a Tuesday, I saw him walk past my window
and my heart flipped. It was strange. I hardly even knew him and yet my heart
was acting as if I was already in love with him. I knew after that that I had
to do whatever it took to get to know him…even if that meant making the first
move.
That Friday I went to a fire at his house again. I tried so
hard to get him to notice me. We even played a game where we were paired
together as the “lovers” and yet he still was oblivious to my attempts. I kept
moving to sit next to him and he kept moving away to make a s’more (another reoccurring
theme). Eventually he stopped moving and sat and talked to me for a while. I
invited him to come see Iron Man 3 with me, my friend Kasey and his friend JJ the
next day. He accepted. When the fire started to die down some of us went in his
apartment to watch Despicable Me in
the blanket fort he had made. I sat against the couch with my head turned in
the most awful direction. He laid down with his mattress pad and left room for
another person…but didn’t ask me to lay next to him, even though I was making
comments about how this was going to hurt my neck to look at the TV this way.
After like 3 minutes I took matters into my own hands and went and laid down
next to him. He slowly moved his hand towards mine.
Eventually our hands met.
The rest is history.
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