The inspiration for this story came from looking through iTunes on my old laptop that I passed down to my brother. I figured I had deleted this song a long, long time ago, but seeing as I hadn’t, I figured it would be harmless and make for a sweet story to share. Even though I have long moved on from this time in my life, everyone has little sweet stories that they can reflect on fondly every once in awhile, and this is one of mine.
I have time and again made references to my relationship that lasted about three years and went down in flames. This long-in-the-past love was with my high school sweetheart and though the relationship ended rather, “vomitrotiously,” it began with one of the sweetest moments of my life and will be something I remember forever.
Mr. High School Sweetheart and I had dated briefly during my Sophomore year and his Junior year of High School. At the time it didn’t turn into more than that and we decided to see other people. A little less than a year later, I began to catch him looking at me again from across the set-up during band rehearsal (oh how romantic!) and I began to return the look and smile.
While I wouldn’t say I still had feelings for him or anything, there were some butterflies upon this realization and there was still some dormant interest. To make a long story short, we ended up talking and catching up over the next few days and I broke things off with my derpy college boyfriend who was clearly shifting his radar to college girls anyway, and admitted that he was “casually” seeing someone the last few weeks we were together.
In other words, it was asshole speak for, “We’ve been seeing each other, but she won’t have sex with me until I break up with you.” Whatever man, you’re cheating and you got dumped by your high school girlfriend. But I digress....
After a few weeks of seeing each other, Valentine’s Day came around. For this next part, I will have to remind all readers that this was high school so set your mentality as such. My friends and I all figured and were completely school girl giddy over the fact that he was likely going to want to make things official. We were also good friends with his little brother who mentioned in passing that his brother had been sawing away at his guitar for the last week or so on clearly fresh material. *cue heart attack*
That night, I went over to his house and after dinner with his family, he took me up to his room (this is not what I meant by making things official). On his pillow was a large bag of Starbursts (my favorite candy) and he invited me to sit on his bed. At this point, he started to seem a little nervous and jittery and every sentence started with an, “um.”
All the while I sat on his bed with a stupid smile on my face anticipating the next few minutes. He grabbed his guitar and said, “So I uh....wrote...this *cough* for you.” Keep in mind that we had a brief history of dating after being friends prior to that so some of these lyrics seem like they’re out of creepy left field, but they aren’t.
Please take yourself back to being seventeen and imagine a super cute boy (whom you have always assumed was way too cool for you) nervously playing his guitar at the end of his bed for you and singing this song:
How can I even talk, when words can’t express
This song’s tearing me down, as my heart pounds in my chest.
And I’ve been dying to catch my breath, gasping trying to breathe,
but every step I take towards you I know your eyes they see right through me
You have always seen, who I am, who I am, not who I aim to be.
BRIDGE: So tell me now, whisper in my ear
keep it soft, keep it low, no one else can hear
Oh how can I convey, I’ve been hanging on every word you say
As we dance, as we dance, our lives away
CHORUS: I am the canvas, I am hopelessly awkward and blank
You are the artist, waiting to make the change,
And at the end of the day I am filled with color
No longer empty, because you have made me beautiful
You have made me beautiful, so come fix me beautiful
My heart is ready to change
Inspiration runs me through and I found it in your eye,
In your glance, your smile, your touch, a heart beat matching mine.
And a touch that feels so right, with hands pinned down to my side,
But it’s deeper than just the touch, with hearts now intertwined.
BRIDGE CHORUS
So come kiss me beautiful, my heart is ready to change.
A sweet and cheesy tune, this song won me over and I of course immediately kissed him and he replied, “Um...in case you couldn’t tell...that was me asking you to be my girlfriend.” I could have died from all of the cute in the room. Oh to be silly and seventeen again!
Has anyone ever written you a song? What is the most romantic way you've ever been asked out? Also, I should probably delete the song now, right?
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vom. i usually limit my asking out words to "coffee tuesday?" i'm glad you had a good time though--i suppose it's just difficult for me to relate since i was never a 17 yo girl. (i had my sex change at age 16.)
i'm kind of curious how you remember every lyric to that song...
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oh, did he make an mp3 of it and give it to you?
lolol wow this is so cute it's sickening <3
I don't think I've been asked out romantically though I'm not too big a fan of traditional romance. I prefer something more spontaneous or unexpected. I would also rather a relationship that starts off dull but gets exponentially more exciting and lasts a long time rather than a relationship that starts out with a bang then slows to a logarithmic crawl or completely fizzle out altogether.
@TheNotoriousGOD@xanga - haha yes. Like I said, I was transferring music from my old laptop to my new one and I found it. To still know all of the lyrics by heart would be a bit strange. Always a delight to read your trolls!
@TaylorKay - ah okay, i was just slightly confused cause i figured if he gave you an mp3, you'd have explicitly mentioned it. (also, i didn't think you memorized the lyrics, haha--i wondered if maybe he wrote them down and gave them to you.)
but hey man. trolls?? i think i'm pretty damn funny, if you ask me :p
Erm....um...this is the most awesome story ever! It actually makes my heart break to consider the fact that you said the relationship went down in flames!!! Unless he cheated on you like the other guy you talked about, hold onto his friendship if you can. If and when you two are older maybe there will be a chance at reconnecting and you can point to this story, and this wonderful memory, as the starting point of another go-round at a relationship.
My Bf Asked Me Out In A Text Message...While We Were On The Phone....The Message? "Wanna Make It Official?!"
The most romantic way, hm? I was at a very nice park located right on the lake by where I live. We'd hiked around and found a really nice secluded spot up in the dunes with a straight drop that was over the water. As we were sitting there, a thunderstorm was rolling in over the water. He leaned over and asked me if I was ready to have a relationship with him, cue cheesy quick peck on the lips, and a beautiful mass of lightning and thunder not too far off in the distance. It was wonderful. Once in a life time.
I like to keep his memory fond with me, he was recently killed this year, even though we'd been apart for about 3, it was nice to remember the great times such as this
awwwww..
so cute! haha. i would've loved this when i was 17 too
so cute!!
I'm 17 right now and I would melt if a guy did that for me! All the effort and time he put into making it special is what would make me giddy. :]
made a wonderful memory.. very sweet. :)
Cute =)
& I don't think I've ever been asked in a cute way..unless you count a guy I dated when I was 17 (lol) who used the line from Finding Nemo, upon hugging me.. 'I shall name you squishy, and you shall be mine. *pause* Will you be my squishy?' I thought he was asking, but I wasn't quite sure.. but said yes lol.. We broke up about 3.5 months later, but we're still friends after 6 years (=
i locked him in the car and asked him out.
i'm romantic as fuq
seriously at any age this would be romantic! for someone to not appreciate this it would be crazy!
this was just super wonderful.
that's adorable c:
Copyright.
Plagiarism anyone!
ha, just kidding (maybe!)
Awwww. :)
Ahh, that's adorable! It's such a cute way to ask someone out. :')
no, don't delete it! too good of a memory
That's too cute! I hate anything cliche, but even my judgmental heart would melt at that.
I've never been asked out in a particularly memorable way. One was at the county fair and the other was at my front door right after prom, as I was walking inside. Last minute to the max.
Crap, my expectations are raised now hahaha.
thats adorable!!!!!!! made me smile
@Gaia - We actually dated thorough the first part of college, but really just became very different people and the relationship was just holding us back from being true to ourselves. That being said, the struggles of trying to be those different people while being in a relationship led to the burned bridge. It's very unfortunate and very crazy how we went form being so similar and sharing a lot of ideals and being best friends to being very radically different and ultimately a type of person the other can't stand. All things considered we were very very good for each other at the time and made a great impact on the other's life, but as far finding ourselves and changing, hey, that's college!
@Doubledb@xanga - Yes, a little too good to be true maybe, but this story is 100% original. :)
I'm so glad you guys enjoyed this story. 23 comments and all positive! Haha made my week!