Think way back to the good old days of Jr. High or maybe freshman year of High School - wasn't there always that one older boy, gorgeous, whom almost every female drooled over? The one that, should he happen to walk by, would cause your heart to stop and make you feel like you might swoon? I don't know about you, but there was definitely one in my school district, and he was a senior when I was in the eighth grade. He was in choir, and I was in choir - he did the high school musicals, and I've been doing theater since I was six. Not only was it a matter of him being incredibly attractive, he had an alluring "dangerous" air (I suppose that comes from being a black belt in every type of TKD imaginable), and he was doing all the things I was planning on doing when I hit high school. Of
course I had a crush on him, like every other girl in the district. But he graduated, I moved on into high school, and life continued on a perfectly normal scale.
Like every other graduate, if a person stayed around the area, you heard a little bit about them every now and then. He had a baby with his girlfriend at the time, and it was unplanned but he wanted to be a daddy. He was going to college but came home every weekend. Little things that made you go, "Oh, really? That's cool, I'd wondered what happened to him."
Throughout this time, we occasionally talked online. Sometime, somehow, I'd gotten his screenname and was silly enough to IM him - and he was patronizing enough to talk to me. As I progressed through high school he moved up through college, until finally I was in college and he was completing his last semester. Somehow, I found that I was talking to him once a week instead of once every other month or so. And then I came home for summer... and found myself being asked over for a movie.
I'd never been so absolutely shell-shocked in my life.
It's not that I have no self-confidence, don't get me wrong. But this was the "boy of my dreams," so to speak, the boy that had an actual "Fan Club" run in his name even after he graduated. I was so nervous, I didn't even know what to do with myself.
So of course, my friends bolstered me up, picked out an outfit, and sent me on my merry way to his house the next week. They're great like that.
And I'm certainly not complaining. I enjoyed myself immensely, I have a huge crush on him, and I think there's definitely potential here. There's things in his past, trust issues, but I've always been told I'm old for my age so we're getting along just fine. I guess I just wanted to see, has anything like this ever happened to anyone else? Being able to happily discover the person behind the idol? =P
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I tend to find the person behind the idol is generally not worth it.
oh wow! thats a pretty sweet story i think...
Yes, this happened to me twice so far! And both times, I finally realized something--I had hyped up the persona of the guy so much that after meeting him and getting to finally know him better, I discovered he wasn't my type after all :)