Elizabeth

Once upon a time a girl met a boy.....              Adam and I met one night in September at the Ronnenberg restaurant in Amana, Ia; I was reluctantly meeting with my friend on karoke night (I hate karoke) when I walked into the dimly lit bar I noticed him right away. He was sitting next to my friend and they were chatting and laughing, so I was instantly intrigued. Who was he? How did they know each other?                Once I sat down I tried to play it cool which always makes me feel uncool but I felt like I pulled it off. I pretended I didn't notice him and barely looked at him but then he started really trying to talk to me and I couldn't stop sending out the "I am SO interested vibe". We kept drinking and talking just like old friends even though we'd only met hours ago. However at the end of the night we parted ways without exchanging phone numbers, I hadn't even thought to ask since I'd never met anyone in a bar. We had though discussed where we lived and in our drunken haze examined each others driver's licenses, why I could not tell you, but I had learned he did live in Amana so I hoped we may bump into each other again by chance. Honestly I tried forcing chance and went into Amana for all kinds of town events, hoping and hoping I would see him.               But as fate would have it I would not be able to force chance and after a full month went by I had given up. How would we ever see each other? One sunday morning I stopped at the gas station down the street from where I lived in Cedar Rapids, Ia to get coffee as I often did when I had to work and as I was walking out the door I heard a voice, "Elizabeth?". Dumbfounded I looked around and finally met eyes with a familiar face...Adam's face. I must have looked confused because he asked me if I recognized him, all I could do was nod and glow! Adam apologized about that night not asking for my number and asked if I had pen and paper to give him my number now, to which I responded by fumbling through my purse and car for said pen and paper and scribbled it down.             I went to work that day floating and grinning ear to ear. How did this happen? Why was he in Cedar Rapids at "my" gas station? Questions spilled into my mind and I would learn that as fate would have it his mom's birthday was the night before and it just so happened she lived one street over from me on Elizabeth street...how wild! He called that very night to set up a date and one week later we went on our first date and here we are five years later.