| How it all started: |
| Clay and I started out as friends. He was trying to be there for me when I was going through a rough time with my ex. We talked for hours on end when we were trying to get to know each other. Since he worked nights I talked to him durring his break. When he asked me to go to lunch with him I was a little nervous even though it wasn't a date. I was nervouse because I thought I was falling for him and I was in a two year relationship. When he came to get me he handed me a little gray ring box. I opend it up and it was a Cladaugh ring (an Irish commitment ring). He came down from Thomaston and took me to Bugaboo Creek Steak House, he made me so nervous and uncomfortable because he kept watching me but finally everthing felt natural after we left the restraunt. We went to the mall for a minute and then I got him lost trying to find Fort Williams in Cape Elizabeth, we drove by it a couple of times. We finally just settled and went to Two Lights State Park. We walked around a little and then sat on this little rock wall. We sat there and talked a little bit. It was then I knew I really was falling for him. I sat there just wanting him to kiss me. Well finally he did and it was the most unbelievable kiss then I knew we were ment to be. It had felt right all day being with him it had felt like we had been together for years. We found a little hill and sat there for a couple of hours with his arms around me. When he had to bring me home we both did not want to say goodbye but we did. I wasn't sure if he felt the same way I did so I didn't know what to do. Two days later I called him on his break, and asked him what was going on between us. I asked if we were dating or what was it that happened between us? WEll he said to me, Erika I would Love to be your boyfriend. I was like OKAY! So, that night I talked to my Dad's girlfriend about it and she asked me if I thought he was worth it. I told her all the little things he did for me that no other guy has done for me including opening the truck door and all doors to stores and when I say to stores I mean he runs ahead of me to open the door. Well that night I called up my then Fiance and he was drunk as usuall and I broke up with him. He was so mad he screamed and cried for an answer and I simply told him I was done with being treated like crap. After that he still continued to call me asking me to come back to him. HAHAHA!! Clay's Birthday was the following Sunday. I went up to Thomaston and met his whole family, and we went camping with them. He took me to Camden and Rockland to show me around it was so great seing where he grew up. Well soon later he moved down here and lived with me and my mother. We got our own place after two months and have been going strong since the day we met. Almost a year later we are getting married in August and Plan to live Happily Ever After. There are some people who have there doubts about us getting married, especialy since I am only 19. It is no one that really matters that doubt us but its just the fact that they do. I feel sorry for them because they can't just give us their best wishes, but instead they insult us as if we don't know what we are doing. Well I may only be 19 but I am not stupid this is my life and I want to get married to the man of my dreams. Life is short so why should I wait a couple of years? My feelings will not change for him. |