@loser is onto something. Now, as everyone knows, I’m the kind of guy who can have any girl he wants: tall, muscled, brilliant. It’s a good think I’m so religious and I believe in saving myself for marriage.
Long ago, in a land before time…. uh, sorry. The kids TV is getting to me. In any case, when I was in high school, and the star of the football team, the debating team, and the modeling club, I hardly had time for anything else. People wondered why I didn’t have a girlfriend. No one believed I was saving myself for marriage.
Well, if there is a devil, he sure knows a thing about love potions. And if there isn’t, then God has made an amazing thing happen.
I was standing in the hall, leaning on a locker, talking to the guys. We’d won big that weekend, and everyone was loose and happy. For some reason, I turned my head—maybe I saw something out of my peripheral vision—and I nearly fell to the floor. There was this girl—I don’t think I’d ever seen her before. She insisted that she’d been there all the time, but for me, it was if she was someone new, someone blue… no, that’s the wrong way, again. Focus, daloon. Focus.
It was as if there was a sparkling halo around her. A spotlight that followed her as she walked along. Kind of one of those Disney affects when they want to indicate love at first sight? I couldn’t take my eyes off her. She smiled, and then she disappeared.
I must of looked like I’d passed out or something ‘cause the guys were like, “daloon. Are you ok, dude?” I shook my head, and asked, “Did you see that girl?”
“What girl?”
“The one down the end of the hall.”
“No man. You sure you didn’t get a concussion Friday?”
I shook my head. I sure did feel wobbly, but it wasn’t because of any concussion. Later on, after I’d asked her out, and we’d been dating for a while, she admitted that she’d done something to make me notice her. I couldn’t get her to say what. “Women’s secret,” was all she would say. Maybe you could get it out of her if you talked. It could have been a love potion. That would explain how come I’d never noticed her before.
Anyway, she’s a really amazing woman. A mother of two incredible kids, a high powered lawyer in a major firm; I couldn’t have done any better. She’s my wife, now.
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the above is pure fiction, in case you didn’t figure that out