My Greatest Blessing

                                                             Happiness




                                                       hot peach fuzz volleyball player, heck yes

It's real.
Dang, we make one GOOD looking couple!

Just because I know you love it haha

        It had been a month of being in love, and I deeply hoped you'd take me to my first high school dance. You had just been to homecoming with Lexi Davis, so I was hoping you'd now choose me to take. Obviously, you would since you were in love with me.
        This was my favorite time of you. It got dark early and light late. It was getting chilly, sweater weather, and snuggle mood. There was yummy Thanksgiving food and Christmas music in the stores. It was basketball season. And my favorite, it was the season of falling in love with you.
        Our friends, Jezzy Diaz and Troy Mitchell, were talking to each other as well. As I walked to my first class on a chilly morning, Jezzy handed me a piece of light brown paper written boldly with black sharpie. I knew it was you. However, I wasn't allowed to open it until after school. After school, I opened it and it was clue #1. I was supposed to head over to Coffee Bean for clue #2 later that evening. It was dark when I went. It was awkward when I got there because the cafe was empty, and the guy barista was behind the counter. I awkwardly went up there and said something like "uhh I'm on a scavenger hunt and I think I'm supposed to come here." He then handed me a drink with my 2nd clue. I'm pretty sure this one told me to go to the place of our first date. So I jumped in the impala smiling and drove to the mall. Finding that clue in Starbucks was EXTREMELY hard, because 1. so many people felt like hot chocolate on a cold night and 2. it was DECKED out with Christmas decorations. The barista there also had to help me out. I'm not sure if there were any other clues or places, but I still have the papers to go back and check.  The hunt lead me to the huge Christmas tree in the middle of the outdoor mall in front of Harkins. That clue said something like "go to the biggest star in town." I had to text Jezzy for help on this one, because I didn't think about the big tree. I walked over there and found a clue in the tree. I didn't stand there to open it; I just jumped up in the platform, grabbed the envelope, and jumped off. Apparently Donovan was behind the tree expecting me to read it up there, so when he came out and I was gone, he had to call me back over. Before I even read the next clue, I turned around and saw him standing at the cheery, bright-lighted Christmas tree with a pink sign saying, "Light up my world, FORMAL?" Awwwwwwwwww, SO CUTE! Yeah I was pretty cheesy and smiling. Jezzy and Alana Blanchard, fresh out of soccer practice, were hiding behind bushes recording the whole thing. Adorable. They squealed with happiness at the cuteness when he popped out in front of me. Afterwards we headed back to Starbucks to get drinks. We had another awkward moment at Starbucks, because he wouldn't let me pay for myself so he had to call his mom (who was at Sports Authority buying Maya black sweats) to ask her to bring over her card. She brought it over, I met her for the first time, and he bought me a drink. It was a short awkward but cute conversation to end an adorable night. Afterwards, I went to Joe Henry Optimist Center to go to Parley's basketball game and I showed my parents the picture and told them all about it. Surprisingly, my mom thought it was super cute.

I'm sitting in a university's library. I just counted 39 people in this room. I have met approximately fifty people this semester so far. I walk by, who knows, hundreds of people on the daily. Out of all these people, all these interactions, all those conversations, not one person replaces you.

Not one person comes close to you.

I still see you as the best. I still love you the most. Heck, you're the only one I'm in love with. The only one on my mind.

Out of all these people, I picked you. I choose you.

Nobody compares to the literal "one and only."

The odds are no longer one out of our high school class of 86 people. No longer the one out of 2,000 teenage guys in Yuma, AZ. You're officially one out of 20,000.

I'm sure you're 1 out of 100 billion too.

      Something special happened 24 months ago. Despite only having talked to you for about a month, I was in love with you. I called myself crazy, but I had fallen in love. Despite all manner of sense, I gained up the guts to tell you. I could have waited, actually I don't think I could've. But mainly, I did not want to risk the world ending the next day or some unfortunate event that would have made me regret not professing my heart's confession. I was in love with you.
      November 15, 2013, a Friday after school, I met you in the school dirt parking lot..same place we had our first kiss. You had early release that day, and were hanging out in the locker room with your teammates before your big play off game. You came outside and we talked a little. At some point when you were about to go back inside, I told you something like "I may not know exactly how I feel about you, but I think I'm falling in love with you." You also had been feeling the same way, but didn't know how to tell me. I'm not sure who said that exact words first, but soon we were saying "I love you" and smiling and kissing.
      From then on I've loved you. There's been bumping roads and hard times, we may not have even been together continuously the last 2 years, but thing is.. I'm still in love with you Donovan. I have been for 24 months.