Our Story

Our Story. How Adam and I met and a little background information.

Me
I was born on October 10, 1990. I was raised in Greenville, SC. I am the oldest of five children. I attended Southside Christian School for most of my life. When tuition was raised I was sent to Riverside Middle School, where I made some of the best friendships I have ever had. After completing two years at Riverside, I transferred back to Southside for 1 year and almost 2 semesters. I lived in South Carolina for 16 years before moving to Wilmington, NC, where I met the love of my life.
Adam
Adam was born in Anderson, SC on October 17, 1989. A year before me. He lived in Greenville, SC for a few years. In fact, his family lived just down the road from me. His father being the manager of a restaurant meant frequent moving. And so they relocated to Fredericksburg, VA. Shortly after Adam's parents went through a nasty divorce. His mom moved to NC and moved into her parents old house. In order to maintain contact with his children, Adam's dad followed.
How we met
I was so nervous. Growing up going to Southside were my graduating class consisted of 57 students. Most of them growing up together our whole lives. So meeting new people, was going to be interesting. I can remember what we were both wearing. How we looked. The exact details. Wednesday, April 11, 2007, I walked into English 3. A class normally for juniors in high school. At the time I was taking an American Literature class at Southside which was the equivilent of English 3 at John T. Hoggard High School. I introduced myself to the teacher and to my surprise, all she cared about was some stupid "Junior Paper" and sent me to the back of the classroom to a desk in the corner as my punishment. With much confusion, I turned to the kid next to me and tapped him on the shoulder, "Excuse me, can you please explain to me what the heck a 'Junior Paper' is?". The blonde head slowly turned toward me and laughed. "It's only the most important paper of your junior year. It prepares you for Senior Project." Whelp. He got me. Instantly with that blonde hair, blue eyes, surfer boy look. I feel in love instantly. So I just smiled and nodded my head like I understood completely. In reality, I was even more confused than before.

Thursday and Friday I looked forward to going to English class. English meant getting to see Adam, and hanging out after school before I went home. On Friday during class when we were supposed to be working on our papers I asked Adam to borrow his phone because "I was looking for a  new one and wanted to see how his worked." He agreed and handed over his phone so he could continue his nap. All I really wanted to do was give him my number. After playing around I handed him his phone back and got back to working on my paper. He looked at his phone, laughs and says, "What am I supposed to do with this?" "Call me." After class ended I walked out to meet my sister to head home. And my phone started ringing. Yes he called. And we talked for hours. The following Saturday night we talked for 6 hours straight. And Sunday the same. The following week we were assigned a group project. Adam and I were put in a group together. So we set a time on Wednesday afternoon (April 18) to get together to work on our part of the project. Adam came over to my house where we baked cookies and worked on our papers and projects. When it was time for him to go, I walked him out to his car, hugged him to say goodbye. When I was caught by surprise by a kiss planted on my lips. Short and sweet. And he hopped in his car and drove off.

We have been inseperable ever since. :)

12 days.