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                                           ♥GARRY and JESSICA♥

HER:

Jessica is 19, going on 20 in March, and lives in Utah. She loves to sing, ride horses, read, write, and waste time tumblring. She’s attending University, majoring in Zoology in preparation for medical school. She plans on joining the Air Force quickly after getting her bachelor’s degree. Jessica is well known for having terrible, awful luck, worsened by a lack of common sense, resulting in incidents including: getting hit by a truck, horse accidents, snowboarding accidents, hitting all red stoplights, etc. But since she has Garry, she considers herself the luckiest girl in the world.

HIM:

Garry is just turned 21 in December, and lives in Washington. Garry plays the guitar, enjoys computer/video games (especially League of Legends), loves to drift, and tinker with his cars. He’s attending University, majoring in Paramedic studies, and also intends to attend medical school. Whereas Jessica dominates in book smarts, Garry has the street smarts of the pair (thank God, cause Jessica seems to have none).

THEM:

Garry and Jessica got off to a rocky start in elementary school, in a little Air Force Base located in Utah…he as 11, she 10, and he had thrown a basketball at Jessica’s head. In quick retaliation, Jessica hurled a bead jumprope at his face. 

It was their mothers’ that forced them to meet again. Unfortunately for them (or fortunately, actually :]), Garry lived three houses down from Jessica, and after socializing, Garry’s mom invited Jessica’s family to a barbecue. After many more of the moms’ get-togethers, at both houses, it didn’t take long for Jessica to develop a cute crush on Garry. Not long after, she told a friend, who told a friend of Garry’s, and the matchmakers sat the pair down and suddenly, Jessica and Garry were ‘going out.’

They had a wonderful first love relationship for two years, and Garry broke up with Jessica, when he wanted ‘more’ and Jessica refused to give more. After nursing her broken heart after about a month, she returned to see his mom, cause she adored her as much as she had loved Garry, and got back into his life as the ‘sister’ he had grown up with. She met countless of his girlfriends, and watched him go through many stages, and get in lots of trouble, as the years went by.

In high school, they grew apart when Garry turned towards a more daring lifestyle of partying, drinking, smoking various things, and experimenting, while Jessica focused on school, music, clubs, horses, and getting over him. She had one short spring fling, in which the guy said he could make her forget about Garry, and the relationship didn’t last, and she quickly got over it, and returned to thinking about Garry.

It just didn’t seem like it was meant to be. As an Air Force family, we never know when we’re going to move, and Garry’s family was sent to Washington. They texted a little bit, and Jessica listened to him talk about his issues with his long distance girlfriend that lived in Utah (Jessica was extremely jealous, by the way). He came to visit one New Year, affirmed his suspicions that his girlfriend was cheating on him, and broke up with her. Jessica was determined not to be the rebound, but he got their first kiss out of her then. There was the brain mush, the butterflies, the weak knees, the galloping heartbeat. All of a sudden she realized she had never stopped loving him, and in fact, she had fallen even harder for him.

They continued texting after he returned to Washington, and when Garry and his dad were on a roadtrip to Garry’s brother’s wedding, they stopped by to visit Jessica on Garry’s request. By this time, there was clear flirting, sweet words, I miss you’s, and he was talking to her every day. She gave him their second kiss during that quick visit.

Jessica planned a senior trip to go camping in Washington, but of course, the main reason was to see Garry. They were saying I love you to each other, talking all of the time, and she hadn’t told him she was coming. Their reunion on his doorstep was like a movie scene; it was that perfect. Yet somehow, through all of this, he hadn’t asked her out, and neither had she. Technically, they weren’t officially dating… and it bothered both of them.

She went back to see him the next year for her birthday. They were definitely ‘an item,’ ‘a couple,’ but no one had asked the question. It just happened. There was just this feeling…and they knew they were together. She spent a week and half there, and amazingly, once again, they hadn’t clarified the question. Shortly after returning home, she asked, “So… I’m confused about this, but what’s our relationship, really?” and he replied, “I was actually wondering the exact same thing! I know that the feelings are real, and that we’re a couple… but we didn’t really clarify…we didn’t go about this like normal couples do.” “So, are we dating, are we together?” “Of course, haven’t we been for awhile?” “Then what’s the official date?”

And that was that. March 22, 2011 they finally became an official couple.

About freakin’ time.