Do you remember the night that changed everything? That night of your last football game? The night where you spent the whole bus ride on the phone with me instead of talking to your teammates? And where you called me crying after you got home, because you realized how much things were changing in your life?
Do you remember staying on the phone while I was on my way home fom work at night so that I wouldn't fall asleep?
Do you remember the night that we skyped until way past midnight because we were deciding on names for your children? Do you remember letting me choose "Allison Jade" because my best friend's name started with an "A" and her middle name is "Jade"? Do you remember deciding what we wanted the boys to be? Or what about agreeing that Allison could do whatever she wanted with her life? What about discussing how strict we would be or how we would discipline them?
Do you remember the days before Katelyn and Kacey's graduation party, where I found out that you had been planning to surprise me? What about how people that didn't even know you, knew that you were trying to come over to surprise me? What about me spending the hour before going out to eat, talking on the phone to you? Or me crying in the Longhorn's parking lot? Or me begging you to ask your parents one more time, "just in case"? What about me asking you to stay up and text me that night because I really didn't want to talk to anyone there but Stormy? What about staying up on the phone until one o'clock on a school night?
Do you remember yelling at me for saying that I thought one of the guys you played football with here was cute? Or threatening to drive over here because he asked for my number? What about being upset that I had played the piano for him at one of our friend's house?
Do you remember thinking I was upset at you for not being here to graduate with us?
Do you remember calling me during my graduation rehearsal? And me answering and talking to you throughout most of it? What about me having to talk to your dad on the phone? Do you remember that that night was the first time you said you loved me? Do you remember me calling you at three in the morning, hoarse from screaming and whatnot, to tell you that I had done my Cher impression in front of my whole senior class?
Do you remember that first hug on the walkway up to my house? What about telling me that I looked really pretty, even though I was in jeans and a t-shirt? Or telling me that you were proud of me for losing so much weight? What about our lunch surprise at TGIFridays being ruined because they saw me getting our of a car that definitely wasn't mine? What about that car ride to Katelyn's? The one where I tried to change the track on the CD, and you told me that I wasn't allowed to touch it, so I told you that I wasn't going to talk to you anymore, and turned around in the seat to look out the window? That same one where you figured out that I was, and am, very ticklish? What about sitting on the couch at Katelyn's, and our tickle fights? What about going to the movie that night? Do you remember what movie we saw? (It was Thor, in case you don't...) Or our car ride? What about driving me all the way to my house? Do you remember what movie we watched at my house?
Do you remember helping me babysit? What about us swimming in the pool in the country club, even though the water was freezing? What about the little girl saying that you were "a great guy" and that she liked you?
Do you remember going to my baby cousins kindergarten play? Or you choosing to go watch my brother play baseball, because you wanted him to know that you supported him? What about dinner that night? Do you remember where we went? (Old Mexico...) What about the fact that you got mad at me for paying for dinner? Or you saying that paying was "part of the man's responsibility"? What about giving me one of your football shirts?
Do you remember laying on my brothers bed? And me almost crying because I didn't want you to leave?
Do you remember coming to lunch with me and the little girl I was babysitting? Or sitting on their front step so we didn't wake her while she was inside taking a nap? Or playing in the yard with her and her older brother?
Do you remember getting Tropical Smoothie for your first time? What about the song we were listening to in the car while we were waiting? (It was "Ours" by Taylor Swift...) What about one of my ex-boyfriends texting me while we were in the car, and him asking to see me before he left for the Navy? Do you remember telling me to tell him that "my finace said that I couldn't"?
Do you remember texting me during your whole drive home? Or getting upset at me because we never took a picture together, and I never ended up making you a CD?
Do you remember what I sent you as a graduation present? Do you remember calling me the night the package arrived and telling me that I was insane? Do you remember my cousins and Toren, and Hayden getting mad at me because I was on the phone and it was supposed to be strictly an "us" night? Or them wanting to talk to you? What about when I called you back that night?
Do you remember me calling you before I left on my cruise, "just one more time", because I knew eight days was going to be the longest I'd ever gone without talking to you? (Still is, btw...) Do you remember texting me right before I left to tell me to buy some motion sickness medicine? And about the ice cream bar? And about making sure that I didn't get into some random car with a stranger because I would probably end up dead?
Do you remember me calling you at six in the morning to tell you I was home? What about talking on the phone for SEVEN AND A HALF HOURS? About really nothing. What about me helping you decide which knife you were going to buy your sister? What about you looking through all of the decorations for the man cave?
Do you remember that camp out that I went on where I talked to you on the phone instead of telling scary stories with the girls, even though that was my favorite thing? Do you remember what we talked about that night? (Sorry I can't help you out with this one. We swore that it was completely confidential.) What about the next night we talked? Do you remember the questions I asked?
PS. This post began composition on October 24th, and I have slowly been working on it.
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