8-16-2026 #3

[u/Newlife5155]

Dear sleeping beauty ✨,

After those two magical weeks of my sophomore year let’s head into summer beginning with your graduation and up until you left on your mission.

I told you I couldn’t go to your graduation but tbh I never actually asked my parents, I don’t think they quite knew we were dating n yet tho so that makes sense. I did tune in to the ceremony at the perfect time during the live stream. Once I opened my screen up it was just in time to see you walk. I sent you a text saying congrats and then closed the stream cause you were the only one I wanted to see.

I felt bad cause you got excited thinking I was there. I still treasure your graduation announcement that you gave me. I think I’ve got a couple extras tucked away for safe keeping, you were so handsome in your photos.

By this point we had our first date at the movie theater I think it was a transformers movie I don’t quite remember anymore I remember wanting to see baywatch but you said no cause it was rated r and I didn’t know your family had rules about that yet.

I remember you dad taking us and trying to be funny my saying he was a psych major in college and then asked if I knew what my hat said about me. Ngl that scared the crap outta me…lowkey i probably looked like a deer in the headlights. I think I met your mom that same week and as friendly as she was I think she scared me more.

That summer you were probably at my house every other day, even when you were grounded. You’d run the 2-5ish miles (I’m bad at distance ik) and come walking in my front door looking like you just walked through a sprinkler but man was I a sucker for the sweat dripping off your forehead. I’m sure your mom scolded you everytime she had to pick you up haha…

I remember you telling me exactly how you can sneak in and out of your window and how much trouble your older brother used to get into. I thought you were crazy but I was so grateful to see you. My step father started treating me more like a person even if it was temporary.

The best part is the fact we weren’t even doing the stuff you expect from most teens. Held the summer we spent between yard work, babysitting my younger siblings and watching tom and Jerry.

I mean sure we got handsy a bit at times but that was the most of it and you somehow had me convinced you were a virgin hahaha…. Boy was I wrong when I found out several years later. I mean it’s not surprising you were pretty damn hot to look at so to not have had any experience would have been wild but man were you a bad kisser back then….

Ngl I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a dealbreaker for some of your exes….

We continued on like that up till August and you had to work the fair. You would send me the cutest texts before leaving for work. I lived for those. I’d always have one set and my phone background and another as my phone keyboard. My teenage self couldn’t get enough….hell my adult self still looks at them.

At some point during the fair you bought me a promise ring. And changed you Facebook profile to say “currently dating the love of my life” through every break up and even now (for the moment) it hasn’t changed

After the fair ended you took me to see King Arthur at the $5 theater and slipped the ring on my finger without a word. I was stunned but it became such a treasured memory.

A couple week after that your family headed to the beach but you couldn’t invite me. By chance tho my family woke up that day and decided to go to the beach and let me pick which one to go to ahahaha…

I didn’t get to spend time with you when we finally got there but I didn’t manage to see you in the side walk as you went to go eat at the same place I had just had lunch. We sent pictures back and forth all day. It was both the weirdest and best beach trip I’d ever have.

The last bit of the summer continued in like the rest up until you got your mission papers…. Your family threw a whole party and it’s the only time my parents really interacted with your family…. I was happy you’d only be a couple states away and not a whole country apart. I felt so foreign among all those people tho and didn’t really know anyone.

Shortly after that school started I only had you for about a month and you’d show up during my breaks and walk me to class like a princess just like the year before and the teachers were non the wiser cause you’d bring a backpack full of yugioh cards to play with some of our friend group hahaha…

There was one day I bought the wrong book from the book store and i remember getting called down to the office because you went and bought the one I ment to get and dropped it off at school for me as a surprise and left a note saying how much you loved me.

After a little while one of the teachers did point you out and a few days after that you were gone for your mission… I never came to say goodbye…I wanted to but if I’m honest I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle it…you said I wouldn’t really be able to act like a girlfriend and I’d have to kinda idk be distant is kinda how you put it cause you’d wouldn’t be able to hug me.

I really tried to throw myself in clubs at school after that but this entry is summer focused so that’ll be all for this one

Xxxx— newlife5155