It was the end of my senior year of high school, I was 18 -years-old. A little background: I moved to Springfield in October of my senior year because my dad got transferred from his job. I was pretty fine with the move because for one thing, I had moved alot in my life, I didn't care for the small town of Kirksville, Missouri we moved from, and I loved meeting new people.
I was sitting at home bored one Friday afternoon and thought I would call my girlfriend Julie and see what she was up to. At this point I had never met Jeff, but he answered Julie's phone with "Hi, you have reached Boston Market, Julie speaking." I was really puzzled and told him I had the wrong number. Jeff laughed and told me he would get Julie on the phone for me. When Julie answered she told me that her friend Jeff was over and he was joking around. Julie told me she was going to the movies with her boyfriend Jake, and their friend, Jeff, and she invited me to join them.
When Julie introduced me to Jeff, my first thought was "who is this hot friend of Jake and Julie's?" Julie had told me that Jeff was in college and he was single, wink wink! Julie knew I already had an awful boyfriend back in Kirksville who was controlling and manipulating my life even from a long distance away. She really wanted me to get away from that guy. I didn't think Jeff would really be interested in me because he was 3 years older than me and cool collage man.
The four of us went to dinner at Steak N' Shake and Jeff paid for my meal. Jeff and Jake told me that no girl pays for a meal when they are out with them. When Julie and I went to the Ladies room, she told me that Jeff must like me because the line that "no girl pays" isn't excatly true. She continued to tell me that last week they all went out and her friend Erin came along and Jeff didn't even offer to pay for her meal, (hmmmm). We had a great time at dinner and Jeff was so funny! Julie told the guys how I was a model for the JC Penny prom gown collection. Instead of Jeff acting all impressed, he told us he had a layout in the GQ magazine and then he put his hand on his chin and posed as a male model! I died laughing, I though he was so witty and cute!
We then went to the movies to see "Austin Powers" at the theater and Jeff insisted he pay for my movie ticket. I love shivalry and he definately had me impressed. We all enjoyed the movie and now "Austin Powers" is our movie, you know some people have a romantic song? Well, our thing is a goofy movie, hehe!
I Hope this isn't getting too long and involved but hang in there! After the movie we all went bowling. Eeek, bowling was not my strong point and I made a complete fool out of myself! I had long acrylic nails and I couldn't grip the bowling ball very well. At one point Jeff gave me a helpful tip and I ended up launching the ball into the next players lane while slipping on my lane. I was sooooo embarrassed but luckily Jeff could see beyond my awful bowling skills and married me that night, just kidding, just seeing if you were still paying attention, hehe! Anyway, we all laughed and had a fabulous time.
By then it was midnight and we were getting hungery again. I called my mom to let her know that we were going to grab a bite to eat before I came home so she wouldn't worry. We went to Ziggies Cafe and once again Jeff paid. I was getting to be pretty expensive for Jeff and we weren't even on and official date or anything. As Jeff opened the door for me he put his hand gently on my back as I walked into the restauraunt. That small touch spoke volumes to me and when I looked at Jeff I felt butterflies in my stomach and I knew he liked me too!!!
After the wonderful evening was over Julie was going to take me home and Jeff piped up and offered to drive me home in his cool camero. Julie and I were going to go skating the next day after I got off work and Jeff asked me if I would like him and Jake to come along (even though I found out later he didn't really like skating). I wanted to see him again more than anything so I agreed.
When I got home my mom was waiting up for me and I told her how I met the most amazing guy! I was so excited. We went skating the next day and I was hooked. My prom was in one week and I dumped my jerky boyfriend so I could invite Jeff instead. After that, Jeff and I were inseparable we had a whirlwind romance and got married a little over a year later. Jeff is my dream come true. I adore him. I can't believe our life together. We have been married 8 and half year and I am now sitting here looking into the eyes of our 7 week old baby girl while our 3 little boys are running around our home together.