Our story is a bit different depending on who you ask so in order to tell it properly, we are going to give you both perspectives:

Malea: "There are so many small details that go into our story but here is the cliff notes version, I applied for a summer job at PGP where Cole had been working for years. I briefly met him on my first day, obviously I checked him out. He drove in in his old toyota truck "tiny truck" he was wearing sunglasses, a backwards hat and he did not give me the time of day until he was introduced. When those sunglasses came off, oh my blue eyes! I was hooked from day 1. I was too shy and thought he had zero interest in me, so we spent most of the summer not really talking. He would help me on track (how sweet of him) I would feel on top of the world if I could get him to laugh. Long story short, we go to a co-workers house for a summer wrap up thing and THAT is when Cole starts talking to me, I was going back to school and he picked then to start talking to me. BUT, almost 8 years later, not a day has gone by where we haven't talked. Texting all day, every day, long phone calls when we weren't living together, he visited me almost every weekend when I wasn't home from college. He's my best friend, he's the first person I want to talk to every day, I can tell him anything, talk to him about anything, can be 100% myself with him 100% of the time. Now, I get to do that forever thanks to a summer job at a go kart track.

Cole: Malea hit it right on the head on how we were when we first started talking and it's still the same even after living together now for the last couple years. Not a day goes by where her return "good morning text" doesn't brighten every morning at work. From my perspective, seeing Malea go into the office for her interview at PGP I knew this was either going to be trouble or just another girl working at the track. Freshly single, I wasn't sure what I wanted and how to feel with everything that was going on in my life at that time. Months go by that summer and seeing her everyday made it almost impossible to stay focused at work. By the end of the summer I knew I had to make a move by asking for her number and off we went. Like Malea said there wasn't a moment where we were not texting each other or on the phone talking. Coming to visit her in Bellingham almost every weekend are still some of the best times we have had together for how close we connected within such a short time. We fell for each other so quickly and we both made it so easy for one another which made it real clear that she was the someone that I could spend the rest of life with. And now we get to share that chapter with everyone in attendance on (her) our day.

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