Ok, bear with me , I have a really long story....
The first time my boyfriend and was in October 96. I was still a DPhiE new member: we met at a Sigma Chi-DPhiE Halloween exchange. The minute I saw Colin I had the biggest crush on him. According to him, after 6 months of dating as we recalled the 1st time meeting, we carved a pumpkin together - eventhough I have no recollection of that.
Fast foward to Dec 97: my sorority at this time was becoming quite close to the Sigs and we were spending lots of time over there - Colin and I were introduced to each - again. I got semi-ticked with him, because I wanted to take my friend to DPhiE's annual christmas dinner: I had to go stag because my friend was a pledge at the time and his magister - my future boyfriend - wouldn't let him miss his pledge meeting.
March 98: all UBC Greeks migrated to one of the bars near campus to celebrate the end of another school year. I spend the evening hanging out with my sisters and a group of my friends from Sigma Chi. I am one of the last girls to leave and am dancing with a group of Sigs that includes Colin. He asks me dance because he thinks I'm a good dancer (after a year or so of dating he confesses he asked me to dance because he like my butt
...). At that point in the night I'm starting feel like I have a cold coming on, but stick around because Colin requested a song for us to dance to. While waiting for the song I'm feeling sicker and sicker - I tell Colin I don't feel well and that better go home - he takes as "I'm not interested in him". I go to school thursday, but friday stay home, because my cold has really hit me. However that friday night the Sigs are holding their annual ascension party and I tell my mum I have to go - the 1st time in my life I had a curfew. I go to the party completely drugged up on cough and cold medecine. I'm meeting sisters at the house and feel a little nervous about going there by myself, but guess who's at the door when I get there - Colin. I end up leaving the party earlier than my curfew because my cold was making me feel really groggy.
April 98 - Arts County Fair: me and some of my sisters go to the Sig house for their annual "Buffy's Breakfast" on the last day of classes. I don't talk to Colin that much and by the end of the day when I see at the actual fair, he's with some other girl - I'm feeling really bummed. After that exams started and summer rolled around and I started dating I guy I knew who went to uni backeast but was from vancouver.
July 98 - a group of DPhiEs go out clubbing one night, a bunch of Sigs are there including Colin. We end up talking for 3 hours. He invites to a fundrasing party he's hosting that saturday for rush. I go - we finally end up having are dance that we were supposed to have back in march. After the party we have ticket money to drop of at the Sig house, someone volunteers me, saying that I'm the recruitment chair, I should deal with their rush chair - I have no problem with this. My bestfriend (who is not in a sorority) helps me devise a plan
. We decide to invite all the Sigs in the house over to my house for a swim (I only live 5 mins from UBC and had been 30+ degree weather that whole week and the nights were unbearable). Get to the house, Colin is outside playing BBall with someone else - I give the money and ask he and some the guys wanted to come to my house for a swim. He enthusiastically accepts my offer and goes off to get changed and find some people. No one else wants to come, so the 3 of us go to pick up my friend's boyfriend and go back to my house. When everyone's ready to leave my best friend suggest I drop here and her boyfriend off 1st as the want to go get something to eat and places will be closing soon. So I drop them home and take Colin back out to UBC - he invites me in to play a game of pool. I pretend I have no idea how to play
. After that he walks me out to my car and asks if I like to go out with him sometime, of course I say yes. We decide to get together that weekend and then he french kisses my good night.
2 days later he calls - whilst playing pool we were talking about the fireworks - an annual Vancouver event - he told me that the week before he had gone out on his dad's boat to watch them. I told him how much I love being on the water and thing I always wanted to do was see the fireworks from a boat - he remembers this conversation and for our 1st date we watch the fireworks from the middle of English Bay, on his dad's boat.
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We have just celebrated our 4 year anniversary!