Nicole

  James and I met in April of 2010 at an Army school. We had never spoken before, but he thought I was cute, and was too shy to ask me for my number, so a friend of his asked a friend of mine. The next day, embarrassed, he came up to me and asked me if I heard what they did. I told him I did, and he responded that he would send me a text later.  My friend didn't give him the correct number though. So, he had to use his resources to figure it out. After scattered text messages for a couple weeks, we finally met at the movie Robin Hood. He was wearing the most hideous shirt (which for some reason he still loves... it was faded blue with palm trees all over it!) and came up to me rambling something about Christian Karate and how he almost stood me up to the date he invited me on because there was a World Cup match on that he wanted to watch. I don't know why I didn't run away then. ;) Surprisingly, the date went very well, and proceeded to see each other the next night, and the next night, and the night after that until 3 weeks had flown by and I had to deploy. If one of my friends had stayed with some guy she met 3 weeks prior to a deployment, I would have told her she was crazy. We probably were, or still are I guess. We like this crazy though. From the first time we laid eyes on each other, we knew there was something special there, even if we had never spoken before. I cannot wait to be reunited with him again so we can begin our lives together.