How We Met

Alright, I’m a sucker for a good love story! I mean who isn’t! Like most girls of my generation I grew up watching movies like Love & Basketball, Drumline, and Stomp the Yard (I’ll spare you all before I go into a tangent BUT my favorite show A Different World) and I daydreamed of the fairytale of finding my forever in college. To this day I love watching shows like Black Love and seeing all of the prospering black love on my timelines. It’s crazy to think that now I have my own love story to tell and even crazier that we will be making three years in two months! Now for the record David will eventually tell his story (coming soon to our Instagram Live), but here is my side – the TRUTH!

FRESHMAN YEAR

I started my journey at The Prairie View A&M University in the Summer of 2014 in the Engineering Summer Bridge Program known as CE2I. After finishing the 5-week program, I quickly started my Fall Semester. I remember being an eager and excited Freshman ready for everything in store (so much so that I took 18 hours that semester). Out of my crazy class schedule, one of my classes was an Intro to Electrical Engineering Lab. This is the first time I ever laid eyes on David! He had braids, always wore roshe runs and basketball shorts. We were broken up into teams of 3 in this lab and our teams sat on the same row. I remember thinking that he was so loud and annoying because he never stopped talking and ultimately I never checked him out or found him attractive (sorry babe lol). This was mainly because I had a boyfriend at the time from high school, so I wasn’t looking and he wasn’t worried about me either. There isn’t much to left to say because we NEVER talked to each the entire semester (not even a simple “Hi”). I know so romantic. So this where we’re going to press pause so I can tell you guys a side story. So during this time I was struggling in Calculus and would go to Dr. Frazier for help. For those who didn’t attend PV, Dr. Frazier was a living legend, a mathematical genius and was still teaching in Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus his 70s. Every time he would see me he would tell me how pretty I was, that I probably met my husband already in one of my classes and probably was paying him no mind. I remembered this once David and I started dating especially since Dr. Frazier, unfortunately, passed around the same time. RIP Dr. Frazier!

Now back to the story. Sadly after this class, we had a long hiatus of seeing each other around campus and having a class with each other again. Then came Junior Year.

JUNIOR YEAR – FALL 2016

David and I ended up having class together again Fall of 2016 and of course, we still didn’t talk – we actually sat on opposite sides of the classroom. By this point, I had met his older brother and sister, but still never had a conversation with him. During this semester, I started peeping him more and more and noticed he did a complete 180° in his wardrobe and appearance (yes, the braids were gone lol). The top memory that comes to mind was one day David decided to come over to my side of the classroom and speak to everyone around me (made a complete circle) except me! In my head, I was thinking “Dang you can’t speak!? RUDE!” But at the same time, I knew I didn’t speak to people I didn’t know all the time either so I let it slide.

Once we all went home for Winter Break, I finally felt that I was ready to get back into the dating scene. I had been single for almost 2 years and I felt that I spent time getting to know who Kayla was – ladies I can’t stress how important this time is! I knew the next year/semester was going to be my year. I was set to take 17 hours worth of engineering courses, running for Miss Prairie View, and I was interested in becoming a woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. I decided to build a closer relationship with God during the Winter Break and I asked for my next boyfriend to be my last – as in my husband! I prayed every night and also prayed that I would be open and receptive to him and not guarded and judgmental. After many long late-night talks with God, I was pumped and ready for the Spring Semester.

JUNIOR YEAR – SPRING 2017

I still don’t know how I survived this semester with everything I had going on, but I’m still here to talk about it. I knew everything I prayed about would manifest in God’s timing and I was just waiting for it all to play out.

Everything was working as planned with balancing my classes, running for Miss PV and starting my process with AKA. Now with the love department, I vowed to let my husband find me and not worry about looking which wasn’t hard because I didn’t have time anyway. But I am human and I started catching myself in one of my labs checking David out! Ironically I had ALL of my classes with him this semester, but I remember sitting in the back of the classroom thinking, “Dang…I never realized this, but David’s kinda cute!” A week later, in a different lab, David finally talked to me except he ended up calling me a gold digger! So some of us were taking the love language test in class and I said I would rather a gift than PDA (which is not a lie) and David jumped and said, “Oh so you a gold digger!” I was Catholic at the time and gave up cursing for lent which means I couldn’t say what I wanted to say, so I decided to not say anything at all (David always says if I would have told him off we probably wouldn’t be together now because he would have been afraid to approach me lol).

Around a week later, another classmate and I made it to the same lab (yeah the one that David called me a gold digger in) early and he randomly asked me, “what is the best pick up line that you’ve gotten?” I responded, “I don’t know I haven’t really gotten any pick-up lines.” I didn’t notice during this conversation that David was at his group’s computer right behind us. So in David fashion, he decided to roll his chair over, with his phone, and interrupt our conversation and ask me, “Do you play games?” referencing the iPhone games that had just come out. I told him “I don’t play games” and he quickly responded, “I like that.” I thought it was smooth and all of us immediately started laughing. Then David came back with “I would give you my number, but you not ready for all that yet.” I couldn’t hide the shock on my face! I was just like who is this guy? The amount of confidence he had was crazy! Seconds later he handed me his phone for me to put my number in it and I complied because I felt like he deserved it. Once we were dismissed from class, David text me for the first time a game of Connect Four and I replied, “I told you I don’t play games.” He quickly texts back, “But you’re gonna play them with me” and I’ve been playing this game of life with him ever since.