Looking Back
I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was my friends eighteenth birthday when I met Casper. He was still working on getting his weight down and his hair was still dyed blond. I was at the tattoo place with my best friend to get her lip pierced and he was looking for a new piercing. He already had his snake bites by then. I still don’t get why he wanted another one. He looked just fine with his snake bites.
Anyway he and I got to talking and we became friends instantly. He said he wanted to change and asked if I would help him. I simply agreed because he wanted to become someone better. Someone who simply didn’t care what other people said. I don’t regret the choice of helping him. I wish all the things I did after that I would have done differently. Let’s start from the beginning shall we?
Now like I said before, I met him on my friend’s birthday. She had just turned eighteen and was finally able to get her lip pierced. She was going to wait till I turned eighteen so we could get piercings together but she decided to hell with that she wanted it now. I guess I have her to thank for meeting Casper. If she didn’t change her mind about waiting I would have never met him.
The next day we had planned on meeting at the local coffee place to get to know each other better. I remember getting there first and sitting at my usual booth. I don’t know how long it took him to get there but I do remember the first question I asked him and his response.
“Why in the world did you move here? This place is so small.”
“I like small towns and this place sounded pretty cool online.”
I guess that’s why I found him so interesting. He was so different than any other guy I ever met. After that day I did everything in my power to make sure I was the only girl in his life. We hung out a couple more times before he asked me out. I remember how nervous he was. It was actually kind of cute. I guess our true downfall was that we did things way too fast. I wish that what I know now I knew back then because maybe things would have not got so bad.
Now you are probably wondering what happened and when will I get to all the good stuff. Let’s fast forward a few weeks from the day we started going out.