Well, our story is your typical love story...straight girl meets
lesbian girl playing softball and then falls hopelessly in love...
We actually did first meet
on the field though, our teams were playing each other and she was sitting out
and I was coaching 3rd and asked her if she mind that I throw my
glove in their dugout-to which I really didn’t get a response…some first
meeting, eh?! Then, some amount of time
after that (I am awful at time frames), I took over the management of my team
and had to attend a league meeting and after I take a seat, I look up at the
row of board members, and there she is…sitting at the end, sunken in her chair,
hoodie up, trying to go unnoticed…she happened to look up and our eyes met, and
I fell right then and there. Taylor,
however, did not. We became friends, I
was looking at properties to buy in Long Beach and she offered to go with me to
check them out and view the neighborhoods with me. I’m from Huntington Beach, and, well, Long
Beach is a bit more eclectic than my OC hometown.
For the next 2 years or so, we were THAT couple…you know, the ones
where you never knew if they were together or not…they’d be together one minute
and then the next, they weren’t talking for months on end, and then they
were talking but just friends but they’d still act like they were together…yea,
that was us. I actually blame the Mrs. for
the majority of my grey hair.
Then, she
finally left for Basic, and well, that’s a whole other story. I love reading the stories about the couples
that held it all together while the other was at Basic, because, well, that was
not us! I think our letters to each
other were just continuations of arguments…long, drawn out arguments, it was
great. I actually think the first phone call she was able to make, was to me, and we spent it fighting (we're both VERY stubborn women). Despite the long distance
fighting, I still supported her, sent her things for her girls (she was an
element leader), and sent her things from her softball team out here. It wasn't until Tech School, where she could actually talk on a regular basis that we started really being our selves again. We remained friends, talked every day, I got 4am wake up calls every morning (I'm in California, Tech School was in Texas), we'd have Netflix nights, fall asleep with eachother on the phone....you know, the normal long distance "friends only" kinda things...
A few months of that, and the both of us attempting to date someone else, I guess she finally came to her senses. She came home for leave on August 1, 2014 and I went with her parents to the airport to pick her up, I saw her walking down with a sign saying "will you be my player 2", she finally made it our little group, got down on one knee and proceeded to propose. With tears and fogged up glasses, I managed to say "yes", and on August 5, 2014 we were married at the Norwalk Courthouse, and on August 13, 2014, she was back in Louisiana.
A few months of that, and the both of us attempting to date someone else, I guess she finally came to her senses. She came home for leave on August 1, 2014 and I went with her parents to the airport to pick her up, I saw her walking down with a sign saying "will you be my player 2", she finally made it our little group, got down on one knee and proceeded to propose. With tears and fogged up glasses, I managed to say "yes", and on August 5, 2014 we were married at the Norwalk Courthouse, and on August 13, 2014, she was back in Louisiana.
Come October 1, 2014, our new adventure starts!
My hubs did tech school at Texas too! And uh, I was a freaking mess during basic. I tried to hide it but oh lawd I was a hot mess!
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