My First Boyfriend

My first boyfriend was when I was in the 4th grade. His name was Nathan and he went to my church and was the sweetest boy. I felt as if we had many differences and had nothing in common. But we had one thing in common, we liked each other. We were really just friends with crushes on each other. As a 4th grader, you don't know how you're suppose to interact together as a "real" couple. All I knew was we were suppose to go on dates and say "I Love You" and give hugs. Whe he confessed that he liked me it was over the phone. His older brother, Abe, asked my older sister, Branda, if he could talk to me. And as I was waiting to hear what they had to say, Abe told me that Nathan liked me. I was so shocked but so happy because I liked him too and I've always had a crush on him. He always made me laugh whenever we were together just as friends. I remember calling him over the phone and talking about nothing and listening to each other breathe, it was so awkward. I enjoyed every moment of awkwardness now though because when I think back about it, it's hilarious. My aunt would take me to Chuck E. Cheese and Nathan would meet me there. We always played games together and take pictures together in the booths, I wish I still had a picture of us. After collecting all the tickets we would buy each other little prizes from the counter. We wanted to be so alike that we got matching high-top "Converse" to twin. I was best friends with his cousin, so in the summertime we would plan to hangout at her house and just ride bikes and chill. I always looked forward to seeing him and he was truly one of my best friends. But as little kids are, girls thought boys had cooties and boys thought girls had cooties. So our friends that were our age didn't like each other and we always had to choose between our friends and each other. This made us grow distant and we didn't get to talk as often anymore. We grew distant not as just a "couple" but also as friends a month or so later, Nathan broke up with me. I didn't know how to feel but I knew our friendship was going to change. Days later I got a phone call from him, he told me he made a terrible mistake breaking up with me. I told him that it was okay but I was still upset. So we got back together and we stayed together for awhile. But I didn't share the "couple" feelings that I had for him anymore. I honestly started to crush on someone else and it did not feel right to date someone and like someone else. So I broke up with him, and after I did break up with him we never really spoke at all anymore. We still went to church together, so we saw each other quiet often. As years passed we still were very distant. We spoke here and there but never like we were best friends. We hung out with each other only around youth members. But one day his older brother, Abe, and I discussed TOP SECRET stuff. Basically who Abe liked and I happened to be best friends with her. So as I was trying to help a brother out, Nathan and I both worked together to try to get Abe and my best friend together. But in the end it didn't quite workout... but Nathan and I just happen to be closer and became friends again. Before we knew it we were texting everyday and looked forward to seeing each other. We grew more feelings towards each other and we confessed to each other that we had those feelings we did when we were younger. We talked for awhile as just crushes and a couple months later, he asked me out again and of course I said "yes" Luckily I moved to Newton, so now I go to Newton-Conover High School and he goes there too! So we see each other quite often. I am super glad that after all those years we managed to be together again.