[once upon a time]

once upon a grade nine there was this geeky chinese boy who played magic cards. everyday at lunch he would bring his deck box of crappy cards to the table, only to get utterly destroyed every game.

one day a friend of his came over to the table looking for a deck box for a gym project. being the nice guy he is, and not really needing the box cause his cards weren't any good anyway. he non-hesitantly gave it away.

and afterwards, this girl, this pretty pretty girl came up to him and thanked him.

taken by surprise at what his deck box could do, he was speechless except for a meek "you're welcome?"

little did he know that this was in fact the first of many times that he would lay eyes on this girl.

half a year later, he found himself in the same awkward position once again.

another 3 months passed, and his liking for this girl has increased at an incredible rate.

he is almost certain he is in love with her, talking to her on msn every night.

being a young one, he is not sure of what he is expected to do, but his friends urged him to ask the girl out, and after a couple of painful months for the girl

he asked the question in a very vague and unromantic way, probably not how the girl would have envisioned it.

but nevertheless

the two were kind of officially together

on that fateful july 21, 2006.

22 months has passed since that fateful day

22 months of memories, smiles, laughter, tears, stories, craziness

22 months of being together

22 months of love

22 months of shelley and terry

not a day has gone by since that boy didn't think of the girl.

not a day has gone by since that boy didn't want to be right next to her.

not a day has gone by

where the boy stopped loving her.

because for 22 months,

that boy has loved her with all his heart.

every last inch, every last blood vessel.

i couldn't be prouder to say that i'm that boy

and that i am

so totally in love with her.