Summer of 2006 by Brittany Weis

Back In July, I went to summer school, for geometry. Since I still did not pass while I was there, you would probably think that it was pointless for me to spend four weeks of my summer vacation sitting in a class room for four hours a day, when I could have been sleeping, or something way more productive than math anyways. But while I did make more than a few mistakes last summer, going to summer school was the best thing I did. Within the first few weeks of the course, Timothy Dale Garrison added me on myspace. A few days later, he sent me a message about something on my page, and we talked back and forth for a little bit, but that was all. Then one day, during a break at School, I saw him in a circle of his friends, and I was walking past them, so I decided I would be funny and tug on his shirt, even though I barely knew this person at all. So I did, then just kept walking to the other side of the campus, without even looking back. Little did I know that, "the shirt tugging day" was really what started it all. Soon, right before I went to the Taking Back Sunday concert with Corey, on July 22, Tim and I message constantly, and I couldn't wait to check to see if I had anything from him. When I had new messages, my heart did flips, and I would get so excited. We talked and talked, and this was all while I was staying with Heather Goolsby for a week, since my parents were in hawaii. Pretty soon, he randomly asked me..."Hey what are you doing around one o clock, tomorrow?" I said I wasn't doing anything, and he asked me if I would like ot go see Click, because earlier on in our talking, he had promised it was a really good movie, that I would like, and that he would take me to see it. I agreed, and the next day we went. The only thing was, my parents were out of town, and it was a ruule that my parents had to meet any boys i was to go out with before I went out with them. So heather's mom started getting nervous about the whole idea, but I assured her we were just friends, and that he was a really good guy. It took me forever to get ready, and Heather kept making fun of me, because I couldn't figure out what to wear and she kept saying how we were just friends, but little did she know I had the biggest crush on him:) haha. So he finally picked me up after getting lost with my directions to heathers house. The moment I got into the car, I felt an immediate connection with him. Converstation flowed perfectly and it was the least awkward first date of all time.And this was the very first time we had talked to eachother face to face. Then less then ten minutes into the car ride to the movie theater, his car started making extremely wierd noises, and he had to pull into a parking lot, and he opened the engine and steam came out, and it was just a mess. His car didn't have air conditioning, and it was about 105 degrees out, no lie. I sayt there, not knowing what to say, and I could tell that he was embarrassed and flustered, so I tried to blow it off like it was no big deal, cause it really wasn't. So finally the car was ok, and we took off again, only Click didn't play until much later, so we went to mel's instead. We ordered and I was so nervous, but i didn't need to be becasue it was so easy to be with him, and he made me laugh so hard. I was having the best time, and I felt like we had know eachother forever. Then we went to the movies and watched Pirates of The Carribean 2. The whole time we talked and talked, until the movie started, and I could tell we were both wishing the movie wouldn't start because we both wanted to talk more. With about 30 minutes left of the movie, I really didn't like that Davy Jones Guy, and so Tim put his arm around me, and I sank in, and it was absolutly perfect:) haha. Afterwards, he took me home, and I knew right then that I liked him so much, and that I hadn't had that much fun in a long long time. We messaged and talked on the phone a lot, and then hung out again a few days later. We drove around doing absolutly nothing, but I still had a great time with him. When he dropped me off at Heather's that second time of hanging out, we got out of the car, and as he walked me to the front door, he asked me if what had happened that night was a date. I didn't know what to say, since I was so unsure of what I wanted when it came to boys, and also because I was scared of moving to fast. I told him I didn't know and kinda left him hanging....Then we were at the dooir, and just before I went in, he told me thank you for the evening, and kissed me on the forhead....I was so happy, but felt so bad that I didn't know what to tell him about what we were. I went upstairs to heather's room and told her everything and about how much I liked him, and she told me that if I really liked him I should just go for it. I went home within the next few days, and every single night Tim and I talked for hours and hours everynight, from around 9-10 till 6 in the morning. I remember hearing the paper boy throwing a newspaper on my door step, since my windows were always open in the summer. There was never a dull moment and conversation never siezed. It was wonderful to talk to someone that I had so much in common with and who was always making me laugh. Then, Tim and I hung out, adn he came and picked me up at my house for the first time and met my parents. They liked him, so we went out and saw click, which made me ball, and I cried in his arms for the very first time. haha. Then something came on right after the sad part and I started cracking up, and he laughed really hard at me laughing. haha I felt so comfortable with him, I just knew we were supposed to be together. After that we went to Dimple records, and just looked around, and then we drove to Roseville Square around 10, and everything was closed down and no one was there. We got out of the car, and walked over to where the shoe place that's on the left, and I stood on the bench, and we were talking and then he hugged me around my knees and was looking up at me. Then on August 8th, 2006, Tim Garrison and I had our very first kiss:) he reached up to me, yes me, even though he is 6'6 and kissed me real quick, then one real good slow one. I was so nervous, and we both just stood there for a while after, taking it all in. We stayed for a while then he drove me home. He kissed me at the door, and there were some guys waiting for me at my house, so tim left and I talked to the guys for about a half hour, but all I could think of was Tim and how much I liked him. And since that day we have been stronger and stronger everyday, and I love him more and more each day with all of my heart:):)