It wasn’t love at first sight, it was love at the first conversation. The way he laughed. The way his face lit up when he spoke. It was instant. It was love. And somewhere I dared to hope he felt it too. That it wasn’t all in my head. That this wasn’t just another case of me falling in love with the idea of love rather then the actual person. And that for the first time maybe. Maybe I was loved back.
I held my breath. Prayed to every higher being in the world. Every day. Every time before I looked at the table placements at work. Hoping that fate would place me at his table. That fate would grant me at least a second to speak to him. And for the first time in my life fate smiled at me.
When we didn’t see each other at work we talked a lot on Facebook. About ourself. About our interests. About everything. He told me he loved baking and I said I couldn’t bake even to save my life. “I can teach you. When is your next day of? You can come to my place and I can show you.” And my heart stopped. He had just asked me to come over for what would be the first time of what will be forever.
I will always remember the day of our first date. How he tried to impress me in every single way he knew. Showing me hundred magic tricks and beating me in every video game we played. He was the cutest and most awkward thing I’ve ever seen. I just couldn’t help falling so madly in love. So in love that I decided right there that I wanted to be with him for the rest of my life. I said it was no fun to play when I was always loosing and he put his arm around me to console me and we kissed. For the the first time of what will be forever. And I will never forget.
We dated for a month before that deciding day on my bed in that rented room I was staying in when I first came to Stockholm. We where just lying there staring at the cieling, being happy. “I don’t want to be with anyone else but you”, he said. “I don’t want to be with anyone else but you either”, I responded. He smiled. “Do you know what that means?”, he said. My heart was beating so fast. ” I guess it means we are a couple.” And since that day about three years ago we have been and in two months we are getting married. For the first time in what will be forever.