Two years ago today (or on this holiday, rather) Robert and I started seeing each other. We don't celebrate this as our dating anniversary because this was not when we had begun dating each other exclusively. That was Feb. 4, 2007...Super Bowl Sunday. This day was simply when we were just starting to feel each other out. It was the Saturday before MLK day in 2007 that Robert came to my apartment to read The Tempest for our Shakespeare class. The next day, he and I e-mailed back and forth to follow-up a lengthy conversation we were having about Clone High and Rats Saw God. We decided to meet up at my favorite local coffee shop (Toomer's) because he wanted to let me borrow the DVDs of Clone High and the book Rats Saw God. We agreed (via e-mail) to meet up at 1 p.m. at Toomer's on MLK day. Here's what happened.
12:00 p.m.: I made my way to Toomer's with a textbook in hand. I had a plan to appear to have been sitting there studying all morning, all nonchalant, not like I was anxiously anticipating seeing him at all. The best laid plans....
12:10 p.m.: Just as I was about to turn into the Toomer's parking lot, my check engine light came on. I was only just down the street from my mechanic and a little under an hour early, so I thought, "I'll pop in; I'm sure it's nothing." Well, it wasn't nothing. It was some sort of an expensive repair that required some sort of bolt or other. I ended up leaving my car there for a couple of days waiting for the bolt to come in.
1:30 p.m.: When it became obvious that my car was going to impede my ability to make it to Toomer's on time, I called my sister, who also lived very nearby and asked her to go into my e-mail and find Robert's cell phone number for me. He had e-mailed it to me the night before, just in case plans changed. I called him, my heart drumming in my throat, while I tried to sound nonchalant, and explained what was going on. Of course, Robert had the same idea I had had, which was to get there early...so he'd been waiting a while. He decided to leave Toomer's (thinking he'd been stood up, I guess), but we rescheduled for later that afternoon.
3:00 p.m.: My sister took me to Toomer's, so she was there with me when I met up with Robert again. She knew I was nervous, but I was more excited than anything. He and I sat there for hours just talking about everything.
That's when I knew.
For two years today, I have felt the most comfortable I've ever felt. I have felt the most calm, the most complete, the most myself I've ever felt in my entire life. These two years have simultaneously stretched for all of eternity and yet have also felt as short as a gasp. I know my soul has known Robert's soul forever. But we've been together for hardly any time at all.
This is how I know.
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