HOW WE MET

Well Josh went back to school late and Cassie started college early and for that reason our journey together began. We first met at a B.A.S.I.C (brothers and sisters in Christ) meeting, 2 weeks before the Christmas party(December 2 2008) November 19 2008(we met). I (Cassie)was talking to Jenn while I (josh) was trying to get Cassie's attention. I (josh) thought Cassie was the most beautiful girl I'd ever seen and wanted to talk to her, but after a couple minutes I THOUGHT she wasn't interested (obviously I was wrong:-D). While on the other hand I (Cassie) had a million things going through my mind when i met Josh, who is this guy, why haven't i met him yet, why is he so cute, i wonder if hes a strong believer or just checking out b.a.s.i.c, does he have a girlfriend, etc. Us woman always have millions of things running through our minds and trust me i was so nervous and shaking in my knees, and those of you who know me KNOW i do NOT get nervous. 2 weeks later at the Christmas party i brought my (maid of honor) Andrea! When we saw josh we discussed that he was the best looking guy in the room! He and I got to talking about why we're at OCC, and joked around about bath gloves that he received during white elephant gift exchange. Later that night as I(Cassie) was about to leave and I (Josh) was playing guitar Cassie said goodbye and told the last few people in the room to look her up on facebook(talking specifically to me:-D). So that night when I got back to my computer I immediately got on facebook and added Cassie as my friend. No more than 5 minutes went by and we were chatting on facebook. After a few minutes of talking Cassie had to go and gave me her phone number to text her, and gladly I agreed. (The reason I (Cassie) had to go was that my dad had an internet shut off time at 10 pm (mind you I was 16 at the time) so instead of making myself sound like a nerd I just gave him my cell phone number hoping he would call me, but he texted me within minutes). I (Josh), not knowing that Cassie was that interested in me, started texting with her back and forth for several hours(even though she had school and knew it was going to kill her). I was very persistent about hanging out with her because I wanted to get to know her better. My (Cassie) mom was parentnoid and didn't want me to ride in a car with someone she hadn't met and I barely knew so I declined his offers one after another after another, although I would've more than loved to go with him. We FINALLY got to hang out on a Friday after Cassie's art class and Josh had just recorded a CD Cassie wanted to hear (HE GAVE IT TO ME FOR FREE) so we made our way to the library where we put the cd into a computer and grabbed Cassie's head phones from her ipod to listen. As I (Cassie) listened i was sooo surprised it didn't sound anything like his actual voice and it was AMAZING, I expected it to be one of those people who "think" they sound good but didn't, in fact he was amazing but didn't give himself enough credit! We got to listening to the rest of the CD we decided to leave and go to "the bridge" to just talk and get to know each other. It was so much fun we were laughing the whole time talking about old stories and things we like then we started listening to my (Cassies) ipod and just hanging out. After a little while we started getting hungry so we decided to go to the cafe (as we were walking there josh does this little thing where he'll look at you quick and nearly give himself whip lash turning his head haha so when he did it i (cassie) picked on him a little then told him he was cute =]) When we approached the cafeteria josh asked me how old i thought he was, my response was 18 or 19 but what he said was shocking, he was 20 so then i got extremely quiet and said I don't think you want to guess my age nor do i think you'd get it right, so his guess was 18 or 19 as well and i tried to ignore the subject a little until i told him the truth, “i am 17...next month” is what I said. (I (Josh) was shocked, she didn't look or act like she was only 16, I think most of my issue was me caring what everyone else would think about me dating a 16 year old. I evevntually talked myself out of it and told myself it didn't matter to me and I was going for it. I called my mom and asked her this question "You know how when you go to college you expect everybody to be atleast 18?" and then told her that this wasn't the case:-D) I noticed he was a little quiet for about 10 minutes after that but then we continued on laughing and telling old stories of our lives. After a while we wanted to walk around some, so we explored the college and found this door that lead to the roof top of one of the school buildings and looked at scenery in the freezing cold winter day and then josh showed me some jeff dunham comedian stuff. The evening came so quickly and we talked for hours, at one point we just lost it, some guy was taking out the garbage and he was a little wierd and we just laughed and laughed about nothing. Then some janitor walked by telling us to go home and get a job and i looked at josh and said well if this is their job then that SUCKS! and we just laughed so hard! I had to leave for a church bible study where one of our mutual friends picked me up matching my first name with his last name and saying how we'd get married some day. I laughed and did not take her seriously at all as she was saying how i love him. I knew I wanted to be with him the moment he made me smile. Then as always as soon as I got home I ran to my moms bed and sat there talking to her forever about all that I did with Josh and how great he was and told her everything about him and how much I couldn't wait to see or talk to him again! I love remembering these things!!
For me (Josh) the day could've gone on for hours more, but I didn't want to overstay my welcome and decided to go home instead of tag along to the bible study. It was about an hour and a 45 minute drive and it was 7 pm and all I could talk about or think about was this amazing girl who crossed my path and I knew I wanted to spend more time with her. I immediatley called my mom and dad to tell them about my unbelievably amazing day. I then started imagining how perfect my life was about to become!!
That was the very first day we spent together (for 7 hours!!) and fell in love that day!