*Sigh … I used to think and contemplate whether or not I’d be a good or bad girlfriend. My fear was letting someone get close to me and my life and I didn’t plan on me being someone’s girl for a while. I was so caught up with my busy life that I never thought it would come along the way that it did, but I can’t express how genuinely happy I am to know that with him … my heart’s safe. It’s been a month but it feels good to know that this is only the beginning. At times, I smile and really feel like I haven’t smiled that big in a while. I have conversations with people and they’d stop me in mid-conversation and tell me, “I haven’t seen you this happy in a while!” and they notice that I’m a lot more happy and less stressed and uptight as I used to be. But it feels right and it’s been good. We both tend to get really busy, but our timing is impeccable. We spend the time we need together and everything just falls right where it needs to. I get questions all the time on how we met, when we started talking, and the infamous; “How did he ask you out?!” And its a story that I don’t get tired of telling. Even on my worst days, he brings out a happy side of me that I didn’t know I had. He sees the silly side of me that not a lot of people get to see — I guess that’s just the art of us being together. It’s been trial and error and I don’t mind for the fact that we’ve still got a lot of room for us to grow and learn from each other.

So as corny as it sounds …. I wouldn’t want to rewrite chapters or erase anything that has made you who you are today, but I’m excited to see how far our story will go. Happy 1st with many more to come, Nathan Aquino.