Chasing Cars

3 years 6 months 18 days and counting.

Yeah, I know… I’m 18. This relationship has filled 1/5 of my life with pure love and I wouldn’t change it for the world.

We met when I was 14. He was the crazy, obnoxious kid that was retaking freshman biology and I was that typical straight A, teacher’s pet kind of girl who everyone copied off of. You know the first words he said to me? “You are cute, can I have your number?” not even a “hello, my name is Drew” or a “hey, what’s your name?” Of course, I give him my number and then he asks, “wait, what’s your name for the contact?” Hahahaha.

This is the kid I’ve been with for 3+ years, how is it possible? We are best friends. He’s the funniest, rudest, craziest guy I have ever met and I love him. There is never a dull moment with him.

What is a relationship without a song? I know cheesy, right?

We agreed that couple songs were stupid especially since our relationships we just got out of had the exact same song… 1 2 3 4 I love you by plain white tees. AWKWARDDDDD. lol.

I heard this song before, but while listening to it there was something different about it at the moment. I realized as the lyrics went through my mind that it was the picture of our relationship. Everything about it reminded me us. Absolutely EVERYTHING. The simplicity of it, the repetitiveness, the complete and udder truth about how love should be.

I can’t recall how many times people have told us that we weren’t serious and my family not believing in us as a couple. “We don’t need anything or anyone” The lyrics of this song portray it all, we just need each other, and no matter what we do, it will always be awesome just because it’s something we do together.

“I don’t know where. Confused about how as well. Just know that these things will never change for us at all.” We don’t know whether we will be together forever or how we will make it work, but we know that nothing between us will ever change anything.

When I hear this song, I just smile and think about a night back to where it first played randomly between us.

It was our 2nd anniversary and we had no money AT ALL, so we made sandwiches, grabbed some “kid wine” aka apple cider and drove to the top of mountain over looking our city. I played my favorite Pandora station which he did NOT agree with because he hates The Fray… and this song plays. I smile and as the sun goes down I start singing to him in my terrible voice at the top of my lungs (Typical me, I ruin romantic moments with outbursts of terrible singing while we both laugh).

Ever since then, I hear this song constantly and I just smile and realize that this is our song.

2009 WINTER FORMAL                                         2013 PROM

                       

She’s the Man

“Do you like cheese?”

“Why yes, my favorite’s Gouda.”

 

I know that this quote probably means nothing to you, and it isn’t inspirational like most of the ones you will be reading are, but it’s hard to choose a quote that means so much to me. Honestly, when I think of quotes that mean something to me, I think of She’s the Man. It’s my absolute FAVORITE movie ever! Not just because Amanda Bynes is the prettiest, funniest girl alive, or even because Channing Tatum is the Hottest man I have ever seen in my life, it’s because of the memories I’ve had watching, quoting and acting out She’s the Man. I actually got the movie in 4th grade. Actually by saying “got” I actually mean that I stole it from my best friend at the time. It’s that great of a movie. Since then I’ve watched it countless times and every time my friends are together we quote this hilarious movie at least once. This movie represents courage, pride and faithfulness which are three things I think are most important to me. So whether it be… “Which one would you rather see NAKED?!” or “I’m a bad ass hunky dude!” or even “How come when I wanted to ask Eunice out everyone made fun of me, but then Sebastian likes her and suddenly she’s cool? Screw you guys. I hate high school.” I can’t help but see all of my friends laughing no matter how much we repeat them. These words may mean absolutely nothing to anyone else, but to me it’s all about friendship.