So everyone is asking how Zach and I met... Here's the story.
Sometime
back in the spring I was visiting La Crosse on my night off... staying
with my friend Nicole on French Island. She was at work all night and
since I also work overnight shifts I was up all night. I brought my bike
and decided to go for a bike ride... end up in Onalaska. Stopped at
Kwik Trip on Oak Forest Drive to get something to drink (it was kinda a
warm night) and left.
I'm riding my bike up the sidewalk,
northbound on 2nd Ave S... and there's a guy walking in the crosswalk in
front of me. It was about 230-300 am, and I was kinda surprised to see
someone else besides delivery drivers and police officers out at this
hour. So I made the announcement that I was there so I wouldn't run him
over :) I said "coming up on your left."
This guy jumped...
about three feet in the air, both arms up in a defense stance, one in
front of his face, the other out ready to strike. I stopped. I was like
"Dude... I'm sorry... I didn't mean to scare ya... you ok?" He says
"yeah... you just caught the wrong guy on the wrong night." So I
apologized again and asked if he was ok, he said he was but didn't seem
like it. So I asked if he wanted to talk, and he stops, looks at me, and
asked what I was doing out at 3 in the morning. Told him I worked
nights and my friend I was staying with also worked overnights, I was
sick of sitting at the apartment alone so I decided to go for a bike
ride. Then I asked him what HE was doing out at 3 in the morning. Told
me basically the same thing; he worked nights and just wanted to get out
awhile so he ran to KT for a drink and cigs.
So we sat down..
right there in the parking lot... and talked... and talked... and
talked... til the sun came up... and then we called a cab and went back
to Nik's apartment... and talked some more.... told him I didn't live
around here so I wasn't sure if I wanted to begin a long distance
relationship. He said "you'll be back, right?" Said yeah, I come up to
visit quite a bit, so he left me his number and told me to call him when
I'm in town.
Couple weeks later... I texted him... no reply...
for a couple weeks... I'm out with some friends in the Dells and we're
on the way home and he sends me a text asking if I remembered him... we
met a couple weeks ago... I threw the phone at Bekah cuz I was driving
and she proceeded to have an interesting text conversation with him...
he ended it saying "keep in touch."
Couple weeks later... I'm
working and around 230 a.m. my text ringers going off... check it, it's
Zach. We texted back and forth for awhile... told him I'd be up in
Onalaska for the fireworks in the end of June and said we should get
together. He agreed, and we met there and watched them with Jennah and
Clint and Akira.... and he said he was going downtown after to hang out
with some friends and wanted to know if I wanted to join him. Told him
I'd meet him there in a little bit... Got there around midnight... had
so much fun... hung out afterwards til 430 in the morning walking around
the island... things kinda went from there.
So now we're
together... and both happy... and looking to have quite a future
together. He's met my parents kinda by accident, and everyone asking me
why I had him meet my parents so soon. I said because I live with my
parents and I do things with them and they are a part of my life and if
Zach is going to be a part of my life he is probably going to be doing
things with them also. It don't matter what anyone else says anyway...
my parents love him and he thinks they're cool... so there :P
And
I'm happy with him. That's all that counts. When people ask how we met,
he says "she ran me over." I say "by scaring the hell out of him."
