The warmth was not just from her body. She loved me and she showed it every day. We were one and as we snuggled in that ram shackled yet to be converted school bus, I knew we could not only make it through the night, we would make it through the rest of our lives together.
Had it only been a year? I remember asking her out for the first time sometime this month last year. I was tongue tied, felt awkward and even a bit shy, but I sucked up all the courage I could muster and said A…would you go on a date with me? The thing I remember more vividly however, is her succinct answer. “I don’t know you well enough” Not a “no, I won’t” it was a qualifier…a challenge…maybe if I let her know more about who I was, she would actually spend some “away from work” time with me.
What a whirlwind of smiles, walks, talks, games, graduation and making time for each other it has been!
But it has only been one year and here we are…I will go to work tomorrow hoping to impress my supervisor so that I can get recommended for that assistant department manager job.
She will go to her freshman classes and, because of her good decisions earlier in life, graduate in three years.
I am sure her folks know about the bus, and her dorm fees may not get paid next semester. We will survive, that is what makes us strong. We are a couple who can survive, we have a plan and we can think on the go. We may end up in Davenport, Shreveport, or Timbuktu, but we will always, always have each other.
And for now; we have the back of our little yellow school bus we AandZ will always have each other.
