Okay. Now I MUST clear things up a bit. And I must explain things as well.
Dating, was always the furthest thing from my mind. Of course I had my share of silly boy and "celeb" crushes, but they only lasted for about...oh say... three days or so? They never lasted more than a week. The longest "real boy" crush was for one year, and I was eight years old. I had a crush on my childhood pal Jessie. The longest "celeb crush" was with Elijah Wood, which lasted about two years, and abrutly ended after meeting a girl who was EXTREMELY obbsessed with him. Who else but her knew that he bit his toe nails? Certainly not me.
The meet.
Me and Ann Marie walked into Jolly Time in the mall. A normal thing. We went by the DDR machine and watched a few people play DDR. I observed a young man sitting on the floor watching the people play as well. He sat there, quietly observing, with a towel slung across his shoulder. I just glanced at him, then turned my attention back to Ann Marie. "Let's go walk around a bit, see! There's two tokens in line...it'll be a while before we can play." I pointed out.
We walked out of Jolly Time and explored the mall, another normal thing.
When we came back, Andrew, my younger brother ran up to me all excited. "CHRISTINA! That guy! You know! With the towel! He's SOOOO GOOD! It sounds like he's TAP DANCING!"
I laughed and walk towards the DDR pad with Ann Marie and watched the guy play. He WAS good. The best I have EVER seen.
"Wow!" Ann Marie said, "He's REALLY good!" I nodded, admiring him, "yeah, I know...I wonder how long he's been playing."
The guy just got finished playing a song. A sudden surge of boldness went through me, where it came from and why, I have no clue...to this day...I have no idea why I what I did.
I went RIGHT up to the guy and tapped his shoulder. He turned around and looked down on me, (him being six feet tall and on the DDR pad which is about five inches off the ground level)
"Heey! Your REAAALLY good! How long have you been playing?" I asked him.
"About four years now..."
"Wow! Thats AWESOME! I only just started playing"
"really? What are you on?"
"Standard, I really stink though"
We talked as I got on the DDR pad next to Ann Marie, it was our turn to play, but he just kept on talking to me.
"Oh sorry!! I'm talking to much." He said, looking terribly embarrassed, "next time tell me when to shut up"
I laughed, "It's okay." Throughout the whole time I was speaking to him, I found myself unable to look into his eyes. I always looked at the ground, I couldn't keep eye contact with him. I know this sounds really odd and weird... but his eyes startled me. They were SO BLACK...I don't know why, but they seemed really deep and dark, and it felt like he could see who I really am. I felt naked and embarrassed, so I looked to the ground, which gave enough comfort after looking into his eyes which burned right into me.
It became a weekly thing. Hanging out with Dylan around the DDR pad every Saturday and Sunday. Just me, Ann Marie, and Andrew. We had so much fun, the four of us. During the time that passed by, I found out Ann Marie had developed a crush on Dylan, and that Andrew and Daniel absolutely ADORED Dylan. At the time, I had my sights set on a certain young man named Bobby. As some of you might know, I had an extreme crush on him.
So Dylan was only looked upon as a really good guy friend.
So slowly, oh so very slowly did I start to fall for Dylan. He was amazing, different, and unlike any guy I have ever met. (Why did I say "was"? I mean, he IS an amazing guy.)
Well, as time kept on passing by, I found out, he had a girlfriend. Then after he broke up with his girlfriend... he met a new girl. A pretty young girl by the name of Miranda.
Oh was I jealous. I envied Miranda ever so much. I knew he was starting to like her. As a girl, I KNEW he had feelings for her. And goodness was I full of envy. For weeks and weeks I was upset, and couldn't even glance at Dylan without being hurt.
To cut a very long story short...
Dylan found out. MWAHAHA! HE FOUND OUT! I was SUCH A DIMWIT! HAHAH! My goodness, I can't believe HE FOUND ME OUT! AURGH! Anyhow. Hehe. Yes, anyhow... he found out.
"You have feelings for me don't you?"
"um...look! There's whats-his-face! Hiiii!!" *waves*
"Christina..."
uncomfortable silence...
"...yeeeaah. How DID YOU FIND OUT?!?"
"It was kind of obvious."
"That OBVIOUS? Oh just GREAT!"
"What I can't understand is WHY you like me?"
"Because your different... and not like any other guy I have ever met."
I shifted uneasily in my seat.
A long moment of silence.
"Do you like Miranda?" I asked him.
"I did, but she doesn't want me because I'm not hot enough for her. I asked her what is unattractive about me so I can fix it. But she wont tell me."
"Did you know Ann Marie has a crush on you as well?"
"REALLY? Wow...wow...I've never felt this way before"
I laughed really hard at this, I laughed and laughed and laughed.
"So how do you feel Mr. Dylan having three girls? eh? eh?!?"
He let out a light hearted laugh, "It feels weird, I mean, why me? I'm not that great of a guy, and yet, I have three girls in my life! I should change my myspace status to 'swinger'"
I laughed, and he continued to talk...
"I had feelings for you."
a SHOCKED moment of silence.
"...you did?!? But...what happened?"
"You told me you wanted to save all your love for your husband. I wanted to respect your feelings. So I pushed away those feelings."
"I did the same thing..."
"you did?"
"I knew you had feelings for Miranda. So I tried to bury my feelings, and push them deep down. But they just kept coming back whenever I saw you. I couldn't stop those feelings no matter how hard I tried."
"wow....thats just... wow."
I laughed "I know, isn't that weird?!? I liked you, but thought you didn't like me in that way. And you liked me! Wow!"
We both laughed at that, "Let's just see what happens next..."
Time passed, and things happend. He never said, "Okay, let's start dating, I'll be your boyfriend, and you be my girlfriend. Okay. I love you. I think..."
Things were never like that, they were never official. We just merged into it...slowly and smoothly. And the transition has been wonderful. During the begininng of the relationship, I did doubt him. And I was still a little envious of Miranda.
But I have gotten over that, and now Miranda is like, a very good friend of mines. Me and Dylan still have things to get over, there are still bumps on the road. But everytime our relationship goes over a "hill" I fall even more in love with him. Things are just so wonderful. He's just, amazing.
We are both very different from each other. Which sometimes causes disagreements. He's never been really angry at me. Although I do bother and annoy him a lot. He never fails to tell me if I'm bothering him.
I was talking to him on the phone last night, "Your friend, Matt, he said 'your really lucky to have her, she's really pretty.' But I told him, 'yeah I am lucky, and not just because she's pretty' I am really lucky just to have you"
He considers himself lucky, but I consider MYSELF lucky to have met him. And I consider myself lucky that he loves me.
All this has been quite an interesting experiance. But I still haven't told you why I love him.
I love how he is different. How he STRIVES to be different. Even if it means goofing off and being totally random. I love him for being himself. It's kind of hard to define a character as different as his, but I did try to write it down once in my journal.
Let me go find my journal and type it all down.
excerpts from my journal.
"But behind the whole childish 'act' I know his brilliant head is thinking away. Pondering this or that, questioning things people are afraid to even question, and thinking thoughts our mere little brains haven't even considered. He doesn't think he's smart, he constantly puts himself down. But I think he has an amazing mind."
"His character is very thoughtful yet very cocky. A little moody but always loving. He needs to bush up on his manners, but he's always considerate. Quiet and reserved, sort of taciturn, and not much for words. And yet he always says the right things.
An amazing lover, a wonerful friend. Just don't get him upset, because he wont be afraid to tell you whants on his mind. All in all he's one of those 'anime hero' characters.
Childish yet grown up. Quiet, yet has a lot of things to say. Harsh, yet loving. Funny but sometimes serious. He's still growing up. But he doesn't want to. I adore him. I love him."
Oh my...Look how long I have gone on. :) wake up sleepy head. It's a wonderful day.
Miranda and me showing off our latest obsession. A Japanese soda bottle...which has a marble in the middle. An awesome bottle. Which, of course, my boyfriend thinks is overrated and thinks everybody is making a big fuss out of nothing. >.<
Christina's current default pic in myspace.
More landscape photo's in PA =]] 
Like I said, I like posing for the camera...if I'M taking the picture. I was messing with the colors with the picture above. Although I didn't get the type of texture and color I wanted.
I made this pic for my myspace. And everybody seems to ADORE it. Heh =]
Full body shots of Christina's costume.
Another full body shot... 
Christina misses him. Christina loves him. Christina just realized that she needs to have a picture with him. Christina unfortunately remembers that Andrew broke the digi cam. (sad face) 
Christina loves photo's.