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She says it all started with a smile. I knew that I watching the girl of my dreams dancing from the second I saw her.

So I guess for starters I don’t know who I am writing this for. Myself? Jess? The world? Who knows. But try to keep up because this story is going to get crazy. I just need to get these thoughts memorialized forever because time has stood still since we’ve met and yet has flown by faster than any other time in my life. The numbers are a thing too, we’ll get to that.

It was September 18th 2021. Officer Hottie was hard at work standing around with a few of the guys at a lovely establishment called Yankies in Geneva on the Lake Ohio. Now at any given time this bar has maybe 500 people in it, drinking, dancing and generally causing a good old fashioned ruckus. It was a day that I normally wouldn’t have even been working but had decided to pick up a shift. As I was standing around out of nowhere I saw her. It was like time stood still. All I could see was her. All I could hear was Laffy Taffy thumping through the sound system. Dancing like there was nobody was watching, just in her own little world. Striking blonde hair whipping all over the place from underneath her sailor hat. Like I said before, time has gotten weird so I really don’t know if I was watching her for 5 minutes or 50. It’s loud, herds of people and strobe lights everywhere. I don’t know how long it was before I could see her face but even before I did I could already feel some odd fluttering in my heart just watching her dance.

Elegant yet completely carefree. Bouncing around like a crazy person but somehow floating. All I know is at some point she finally looked my way. My first thought and the next words out of my mouth to Officer second hottest were “That’s it, I’m in love.” Little did I know then that those were some of the most true words I’ve ever spoken.

The night continues and this girl kind of comes and goes. My heart drops every time that she is out of my sight because I just know that I’ll never see her again. I guess I’m pretty ok with it at the time because I know that this is probably the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen and I never would have had a chance anyways. But Im not ok, I have this pit in my stomach that I can’t describe and I surely can’t understand. Then she’s back! And gone again.

So by this point I have noticed that this group she is with is obviously some type of bachelor/bachelorette party. She’s gone, probably off being swept off her feet by prince charming, but the party is making its way over to take some pictures so I’m absolutely elated because I’m one step closer to meeting this goddess. The bride gets a picture, the groom gets a picture, yada yada. Turns out later in this story that they are amazing people but at the time I couldn’t care less about them or anyone else in the group. Hell, I didn’t care about a single person in the bar, the village, or the world for that matter. Just come over, say hi, take a picture so I can put my arm around you and never let go. Nope. Too good to be true, she never comes. So now this group of nautical misfits is clearly getting ready to call it a night and go return my girl to her VIP spot in heaven. I have to meet her, ugh I can’t just go walk up to her and get shot down, I’m a big tough cop and I just don’t think my inflated ego can handle it. We nod, wave and say our goodbyes to the group and there she goes bringing up the tail end of the party. I can feel my heart in my stomach as this positively perfect human is walking right out of the gate and out of my life forever.

Then it happens.

She says it all started with a smile.

Our eyes finally meet and according to her with a mysterious halo radiating around me I smiled at her. I honestly couldn’t tell you if I did or didn’t. I was crawling out of my skin and felt like my heart was on fire. The moment lasted merely a second but will be burned into my mind for the rest of my life. Then poof. She’s gone. I turned to my friend and said “There she goes, there goes the girl of my dreams. Again, unbeknownst to me at the time could not have been truer.

Then what feels like days passes as I stand there partly sulking and partly just appreciating that I even got to see this girl. Welp, may as well move along. I intended to and could have walked away at any second after she walked away but I didn’t. Turns out it was only a few minutes but remember, time has already started getting real weird.

Holy shit, she’s back.

Watching her walk up to me was complete slow motion. She’s ten times more beautiful than I remember and she was already the most gorgeous girl I’ve ever seen. She does this cute little walk when she’s nervous. Arms behind her back, swinging her shoulders and hips, looking down like she’s kicking a pebble down the sidewalk.

“Hi, Im Jess. This is like a stupid high school thing but my friends bet me that I wouldn’t give you my number”

“Hi”

Hi is all I could muster. I literally could not remember my name. The girl of my dreams, this perfect angel is giving me her number and I can blurt out is “hi”. Don’t laugh. You have to understand that with just those few words I’m already head over heels in love with her. The cutest voice I’ve ever heard, big brown eyes that stared right into my soul and a smile that you can’t believe is real until you see it in person. She’s clearly nervous and adorably timid but exudes this sexy confidence. I could have sworn that my head was actually spinning off.

So after my clearly graceful response to getting this girl number she leaves again. But now I have way to get her back. I have a name. I’m the luckiest guy on the planet. Do I text right away, is that too much? Am I just being catfished, did they send the hot girl to give me another girls number? Who cares, I can’t live with myself if I don’t do everything I can to get Jess into my life.

I sent her the first message at 11:34.

If you add up the letters in September eighteenth twenty twenty one there’s 34.

If you add up our birthdays they total 43.

I told you, this gets weird and we haven’t even started.

This is written about the first 10 seconds or so that we’ve known each other so if you’re not ready for lengthy tale about the most gorgeous, beautifully complex, genuinely kind hearted girl that’s ever existed and her insanely lucky man then check out now because this is only the beginning.

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