Hello peoples. So today my topic is my girlfriend and it has been picked out by one of my favorite people, my girlfriend. Here it goes.

So I guess I better start from the beginning. It was the first day of fourth grade when I met her. Since then I've always liked her but it took me quite an embarrassing few years to get things started. In those few years I was stuck in something you've probably heard of. (the friend zone). But I guess I started really working for this girl in seventh grade. It was towards the end of the year and she and I had art class together and the seating chart changed a few times until pretty soon she was sitting next to me. She tells me this is when she started liking me but then I was still just hoping she did if she dropped any hints I was probably pretty clueless. I still look at that class in my memories and remember the laughter and the looks we gave each other sometimes. Nevertheless I still didn't ask her the question until a bit through the eighth grade. Once again we had most of our classes together and we spent the most time together in Spanish class and English class which unfortunately was not our favorite class. (neither of us like the teacher). So it had been a while now since I had decided to ask her but I was still looking for a good moment. So it was one Friday the 27th of September and it was a reward after the first report card and everybody was outside sitting on a hill in the grass watching a flag football game with the teachers and some of the more athletic 8th grade boys. (so naturally I was in the audience). I was sitting with her playing with a piece of grass under the early autumn sun getting closer and closer to asking her.... But no. No this is me your talking about it couldn't be that romantic. So school ends and we go home and I'm pumping myself up to ask her through texting doing the laundry home alone blasting my music. The music is really good and a lot of them have to do with love and I felt really good afterwards. So I'm sitting in the living room later with my Mom and siblings eating dinner and I just grab my phone and start typing. One slow letter at a time until, finally the message is written and I sorta closed my eyes and my stomach clenched and I sent her the message... She said yes! I was up for most of the night thinking about this happy, giggly, beautiful girl from North Carolina who, somehow, somehow, had said yes. So the next morning I jump out of bed and check my phone just to make sure this wasn't a dream. So the weekend continues and we nervously text each other until it's Monday morning and I'm heading inside the school knowing that there she is somewhere behind me getting off her bus. And there is she smiling beside me and just like... hi.

So here I am with this wonderful girl today and here I hope to be for a long time. Bye.


By Ashton