One Year of Awesome

Today marks the one year anniversary of Annie & The Chad Chad. There was a large debate about the official day we would count, but after much consideration, we chose today. Maybe the story of the two of us will explain what I mean.

It all started second semester freshmen year. We both had Mr. Higbee first hour. If you ask Chad what made him fall for me, he will tell you, “Those dang brownies.” It’s quite simple. The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.



The two of us made a deal. I would bring in a plate of brownies (my specialty) if he brought in a box of Krispy Kreme donuts. I held through on my side of the deal, and brought in the brownies… but he was a big time jerk and didn’t bring me donuts. Not even the nasty Safeway kind. Curses. So then I continued to harass him whenever I saw him. Not that I really cared if I got the dang donuts, but I had a plan.

After many reminders, with no donut-outcome, I was so sneaky that I got his phone number, saying that he needed a reminder when he was at home, and was actually capable of getting my donuts. I know I’m sneaky. I think I deserve an award of some sort. But anyway, after that donuts were rarely mentioned. Remember – I didn’t really care about the donuts. Mostly, we flirted. Like ALL the time.

Then school ended. I was devastated. I prayed that I would see him during the summer. But I didn’t. But we still texted a lot.

Then came the first day of School – Sophomore year. He was so cute. He totally ditched his friends to be with me : ) We totally like each other and everyone knew it.

Many things happened that made things not work out. It sucked. I wanted to cry. He start dating another girl – don’t blame him. I was a brat. He shouldn’t have waited around for me. This girl was a good friend of mine, and it killed me to see them together every day.

In November last year, our best friend, Justin, moved to Oregon. This was hard on both of us, so we kind of turned to each other. We were more than best friends. If somebody told me something that was supposed to be a secret, immediately, I would call Chad and tell him. And this was ok because everyone knew it would happen.

I started to have such strong feelings for Chad that it absolutely killed me to see him with this other girl. I lied to her all the time. She began to have fears that Chad liked me, and I liked him. I would always reassure her and tell her, no we’re just friends. It’s fine. I lied and she knew it. I feel bad to this day for the many lies I told her.

It became so hard on me that I looked for a new guy, and the first one that threw himself at me, I was going to date.



You know this guy? Congressman Jeff Flake? Yeah his son was that guy that threw himself at me. He’s an idiot. I had to get over Chad and my intense depression. I was literally thinking “Must. Ew. Hold. Ew. Creepy Kid’s. Hand. Ew.” I’m still pretty mad I at myself for doing this.

*Disclaimer: If you know who I’m talking about and disagree with me, I’m sure he’s a great guy. I didn’t really know him. I was in love with Chad. Sorry if I’ve offended you.*

The best part about that 3 day relationship (Yeah, I couldn’t handle it. The last day was spent hiding from him. Remember that, Jannae?) was that it pissed Chad off. Big time. He was not happy at all.

When I finally broke it off, Chad made fun me a lot. Still does (jerk). That’s when Chad and I both realized, we couldn’t be with anyone else. December 30 of last year is when we decided that we had reached the point of no return. We had to be together.
Some may say that we are too young to know. Well you know what? Sometimes it works. I happened to know we work. Stop hatin on the love birds, ok?



Anyway, to finish our story. Then next day I went to Texas. Great, right? GR. I was ticked. After I had been there for a couple days, Chad called me crying. He told me that he had broken up with his girlfriend. He knew that it was the right thing to do and that he was making the right choice, but he made a girl cry, and it killed him.

I got back on January 4th. This is when we went on our first real date and he asked me to be his girlfriend. This is the day we debated. Technically, this is when we were really a couple. But we count December 30th. Deal with it.



This past year has been amazing.