We have all heard the fairy tales, all dreamed of being our own Cinderella or Sleepying Beauty. These stories are all read to us as little girls and we grow up imagining our own lives turning into these stories.
Today in the spirit of Valentine's Day I am going to tell you my Real Life Fairy Tale! There is no "Once upon a time" but there is definintely a "Happily ever after!"
To start this story I need to take you back in time, back to 2005, my Junior year in high school. I was a quiet person because I was over high school already! I didn't care a lot about the people in my class I just wanted to go to class, play softball, and graduate. Since I really didn't do much the only outlet I had was playing softball. I was a junior and got to be higher up on the totem pole so it was starting to work out for me.
This was the year I started on a select softball team and the year I met my 2 best friends! These 2 were the best things that could have happened to me and save my life. They are the 2 that got me through the remaining years of high school!
Taylor and Sarah became my 2 partners in crime. We went every where together and there was no where one of us went that you couldn't find the other close by. We were together every spare minute. I am not sure you will ever find friends that were as close as we were.
We went through everyday and things were awesome! As a friend we always knew that Taylor was gay. We could tell, there were just little hints and she was more comfortable in boy clothes and doing boy things. Her element was not shopping and makeup/hair like mine and Sarah's but it worked because she was an amazing person!
They were both 2 years younger than I was so eventually I graduated and went to Kansas for college. It was at this point things started to change. Things got weird, I got busy, Sarah and her family moved to Louisiana which left Taylor at home by herself. This was the point things went bad. I had some feelings I never thought I would have had and put distance between Taylor and myself. I eventually stopped talking to her and we stopped being friends!
I moved on and she moved on. She came out of the closet which I know was a hard time for her and I regret not being there for her during that time like I should have been but I cannot take it back now I can only make it better in the future! So now fast forward a few years to 2012.
A lot has happened between the 3 of us, Taylor and I didn't speak so Sarah and her got really close. Then Sarah and her distanced themselves and Sarah and I got really close again. It's a very strange situation. Beginning of 2012 I recieved a call from Sarah announcing she was pregnant... a month later and I got a text announcing her engagement. Let's just say they were on the fast track! The wedding would be in July and I would be maid of honor.
Sarah and her hubby to be were on a budget and paying for the wedding all on their own so I helped plan it and did my best to be the maid of honor to a prego, young wife to be on a budget... not a simple task but we did it. So July comes and it's the weekend of the wedding. Taylor's family was invited and Sarah asked Ty, Tay's dad, to take the pics at the wedding. Taylor joined him for the wedding that weekend.
At rehearsal dinner I don't know what came over me but I saw Taylor sitting alone at a table and I decided I would clear the air. I sat with her and started talking to her! We expressed everything that was on our minds and tried to see where the other person was coming from. We hung out the whole weekend and it felt like things had never changed. We were all laughing and joking and spending time together again.
That weekend I had a lot to drink, had some good heart to hearts with Tay, and left with my friend back. She rode home with me from Arkansas and we began talking and seeing one another everyday. My day didn't feel complete without seeing her!
Eventually things progressed and Taylor expressed her feelings towards me. She made me realize that there were always feelings more than friendship between the 2 of us but I was always scared to admit it. Until then!!
In August I began a relationship with Taylor and she became my rock through one of my hardest points when we discovered my aunt's (my 2nd mother) body in the floor of her apartment after having to break in, she became my go to person when I needed someone to lean on, she became my best friend (again), she became another important influence in my son's life, and she became the love of my life! It was at this point that I let my feelings for her come to life and stopped hiding them. I accepted them for what they were and embraced them! We spent every spare minute together and in October got our own place together. We formed our family... and we lived happily ever after!!!
**Please don't mistake this story for meaning everything is perfect, it is far from it but we wake up every morning next to one another and I know that in the end I am right where I am supposed to be! We fight and argue, we laugh and cry, but in the end she is my everything and I could not picture a better person to spend the rest of my life with!!
I hope that all of you enjoyed reading my "real life fairy tale" and that if you haven't already found yours, you soon find your Prince/Princess Charming!
Happy Valentine's Day Y'all!!!
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