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Love Story #1264
Returning to Trey
by melody
Trey and I first met in the first grade. He was the new kid in class and we were both trouble makers. At first we didn't get along that well, then one day he got in trouble for something I did. After he didn't rat me out to the teacher, I knew that we could be best friends, and we were all through elementary school.
In Middle school I went to private school and he stayed in public school, but then he moved away. He moved to the next town over in eighth grade and we were soon in contact once again. The summer before freshman year of high school we started "dating." We were the envy of everyone we knew. The first time he told me he loved me, I honestly didn't know what to say. We were only fifteen, and I had never even thought about whether or not I loved him. It was then that I decided it was something I needed to think about. I spent a few hours sitting by myself in my room and thought of everything he and I had done together and I thought about the two years we had been apart. I wondered what life would be like if he left again, and I realized that I never wanted him to leave. I had come to a point that I couldn't imagine my life without him in it.
High school progressed and so did our relationship. My mother decided that she didn't like Trey and didn't want me to spend any time with him. (I found out later it was because she had seen him at some game with a group of boys drinking.) Things started to change between us. He never got his license so I always had to go to him and usually ended up driving his friends around too. He made new, bad influence kind of friends and started spending less and less time at school and became less and less the popular athlete. I soon came to realize that even though I loved him with all my heart, he was going places that I shouldn't follow. I was spending way too much time trying to "save" him and to turn him back into the person he was. Then I started hearing rumors about him cheating on me and couldn't take it anymore. It was senior year and we both decided that it would be best if we weren't together anymore.
That was one of the most emotional things I've ever been through. I was completely heartbroken. And then I had to try and decide where I wanted to go to college and what to do with my life. I ended up deciding to postpone everything and took a year off after high school. I was supposed to be having a great time, no responsibilities, no worries, and my parents paying for half of everything I did. Most of the time I could barely escape an hour without thinking of Trey. I had dreams about him almost every night I went to sleep. I just wanted to make sure he was doing okay and was happy, but I didn't want to call him in case he didn't want to hear from me. I wouldn't have even known how to start the conversation. He had been my best friend since first grade and then I was left without a boyfriend and a best friend. Trey was the one person who knew almost everything there was to know about me. I missed him so much.
One day in February I was driving home from a trip I'd been on fairly late at night. It had snowed earlier that day and the highway had iced over in places. I had been driving straight for five hours and I was only twenty minutes from my house. All I could think of was being in the comfort of home again and hopefully finding some peace. Then it happened. I hit some ice and the car spun around a few times. I thought I was just going to hit the guardrail in the median, but then something happened and the car flipped over twice and landed upside down on the guardrail, then settled on its side. I used my cell phone to call 911 and then my parents to come get me. When the paramedics arrived they didn't think there was any way that someone was alive inside my car, but there I was, safe and sound. It took them over an hour to get me out and they had to cut the roof off the car to do so.
The next day my accident was on the news and Trey saw it. He immediately recognized my car and called my sister to make sure I was okay. Later that day he showed up at my house with some soup and movies. He told me that after seeing my car on tv he thought about what it would have been like if I hadn't survived. He said he would have been totally and completely devastated if I had died and he couldn't go any longer without making things right between us.
The next day he came over again, but this time it was with a ring. Trey said that a life with me wasn't worth living and that he wanted to be with me forever. My mother still did not like him and wasn't ecstactic about the news of our engagement. She said that at nineteen we had no idea what we were getting into. My dad was a little more understanding. He knew the love that was between the two of us and my parents were our age when they met and only two years older when they got married.
It's been two years since that day and Trey and I will be married in seven months. We're both going to college now and spend a lot of time together. At the same time we're trying to enjoy ourselves and just be young college kids. We know we're young, but we've already been through so much together that I can't imagine ever being with anyone else. We see our friends randomly hooking up with people on the weekends trying to find the right person and we're so happy we already have each other.
Notes From The Author:
You may e-mail me with any comments about my story.
There is a lot more to our story, but since it's already quite long, I kept to the important parts. Feel free to email me with your thoughts and comments.
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