Pretty Boy

Like two months ago me and Amber were talking about something embarrassing when I noticed this boy walking behind us and turned to Amber to whisper that “I really hope the pretty boy behind us isn’t listening to this conversation…(it involved how we couldn’t get married because we’ll never find guys enough like each other to be our best friends)”. I was convinced he had heard the whole thing when he stopped to yell “cool pants! (why’re you looking at my butt..?.. jk. I didn’t ask that)” to me on his way into the library. Later I’d jokingly told Amber that I hoped pretty boy was in the MC building when we went to eat, and then that he would be one of the roommates of some guys we doubled with. A couple of days later pretty boy ran up to say “you’re cool pants girl!” (super smooth huh..:) and get my number after a multi-stake conference. The same day he texted me and asked if I’d want to go hang out with him that night. I was really down until I ended up having a talk with another guy I’d been dating and was trying to nicely DTR to a friend zone. This guys had called me and asked if he could just talk to me that night, one more time. I texted pretty boy to tell him I didn’t think I’d be able to hang out today and impressively enough.. he called me to tell me he’d been “looking forward to hanging out with me all day and I wouldn’t be disappointed if I came and if I could please make some time for him even if it was for just a little bit”.  Half the reason I said OK was just because I was impressed by the effort… and he was right, I wasn’t in the least bit disappointed I came. He picked me up from my apartment armed with two carts of ice cream, spoons, a ton of blankets and a massive marshmallow jacket I ended up wearing (so attractive) the rest of the night (and happened to spill ice cream down the front of… which he likes to tell everyone about). And now I'd have to say those "cool pants".. That he later said look like a grandma couch.. Are my favorite pants EVER.

            I think it’s crazy how we go from not knowing someone even a little to feeling like you’ve known them forever. It just feels right to be with them, and comfortable and like home.  He’s become the person I want to tell whenever something good or bad or funny happens, and who when I want to do something- I want to do it with, and who makes my day infinitely better by being in it, soo fast. It’s funny thinking about the first few dates we went on, because everything you learn about a person just makes them so much better and more real and a hundred times more awesome. You learn something different from every person who becomes a part of your life; if you aren’t growing, just by knowing them, it’s not worth it.  Like when I’m with him I feel comfortable saying what I’m really thinking, and he reminds me that its important. There’s a couple things about Chas (I’m gonna stop calling him pretty boy now..) that I don’t wanna forget I think about him; 1. He’s does this (usually I call it bi-polar) thing where he decides what he wants to do and then we go to do it and suddenly decides he was wrong and he wants to do something completely different. But I kinda like it. Because when we go to do something I know he likes it or else we would have already stopped haha. 2. He is really really NICE (even though that’s not the first word that pops into my head if I was going to describe him)- and he makes an effort to be sincere. 3. He says what he’s thinking 4. He had me stop to say a prayer before we went on our last road trip 5. He talks about how he wants to better at some things (and probably doesn’t realize that that already makes him better) 6. He really does come up with awesome dates 7. He opens my door even when I’m driving 8. He comes to kiss me goodnight when we’re at his family’s or mine 9. He's happy to be with my family, even when my uncle is sitting between us 10. He went back to try and find my show when I flipped my kayak and a tree fell on top of me 11. He's expressive; talks about the things that’re important to him 12. He does cute things; wrote me a poem once that was hilarious and sung to me in Portuguese (not that I knew what he was saying) 13. He notices things about who I am that make me want to be better 14. He laughs a lot. 15. He loves his dad  16. He's laid- back; he doesn't get mad (i think he still even likes me) when I splatter BBQ sauce all over him, or spill ice cream all over his jacket, or push him in a lake 17. He acts like he cares about the things I care about. 18. He is smart; he thinks about interesting, cool things 19. He is fun.. Even when it means telling me his last name is Stallionman, or telling me theirs a skunk crawling on my foot not a cat, or throwing me over his shoulder in th middle of campus or tackling me on the side walk while we're chalking the ground 20. He always has wet wipes I his car

I’m glad I get to know him. He's my favorite.

Ps. He told me once he wanted to be the best boyfriend ever and he is.. For the record