Her Side of the Story

I was visiting my Aunt for her birthday, which was also the week of Valentine's Day. One of my favorite things from the last time I visited her was going Two Step dancing at Red River. So of course I had to go again while I was visiting her this time! It was a Saturday night and I dressed up in my best Texas dancing outfit, curled my hair, and was wearing my brand new dance shoes. My Aunt said I looked like Cinderella ready for the ball, took some pics of me, and off I went!

I had been dancing awhile and I was standing on the inside corner of the oval, (where everyone was dancing), waiting for someone to ask me to dance. Then across the dance floor I see an extremely handsome guy walking along the outside of the oval. My soul immediately felt at peace and gave me the feeling that I knew him; not like I knew him from somewhere but that I had known him for a long time. Not only that, but it's as if my soul said, "ah there he is." My head (my brain) was very confused and as if responding to my soul said, "I have no memory of this person." But again I felt at peace and I felt as though I did know him and had known him.

Without thinking about it, I had stared at him this entire time I had had this internal dialogue. He started to walk towards me with a smile on his face across the dance floor, but right before he reached me, another guy came from behind me and immediately asked if I would like to dance. Feeling put on the spot, I said yes; but I looked at the handsome stranger that had crossed the dance floor, and when we made eye contact it was clear, the next dance would be with each other.

So I danced with this other guy, and he with another girl, and when that song ended we were both close to where I had been standing originally. He asked me to dance and I responded to him as if this was our hundredth conversation by giggling a little and saying, "Of course!" We then danced and talked for the rest of the night.

It wasn't until around 4 am when my Aunt called me and asked if everything was alright that I even considered truly what time it was. We made plans to see each other the next day by going to church together with my Aunt, which we now call our First Date.

His Side of the Story

I had just gotten out of the Airforce and had moved to Dallas for a new job in August. While getting settled there, my aunt and uncle who also lived in Dallas, told me to checkout this church named Watermark. It was there I met Chandler. Fast forward a bit, Chandler has been trying to get me to go two step dancing with him but I don't like to dance. Finally I relented and went the week before Valentine's day and kind of enjoyed it. So I decided what the heck why not go a second time the next week.

I got to Red River when it opened that night and for a while I was having a pretty good time. I had been dancing with a few different people and decided to take a quick break off the dance floor.

While I was relaxing and looking around, all of a sudden I saw this very beautiful woman staring VERY intently at me from across the dance floor. She was dressed modestly which stuck out so much to me because everyone else was not dressed as classy as her. It honestly felt like the whole room had gone grey but she was in color. I figured after a few seconds of locking eyes with her that she probably wanted to dance with me; so I crossed the dance floor to go over and ask her to dance.

Just before I could ask her though, another guy came up from behind her and asked her to dance first, but we locked eyes again and both instinctively knew that the next dance that we both would have would be with each other. Apparently I danced with someone else during that time but I don't remember that person or dancing with them.

When the song ended, I walked back to the spot where she had been originally standing and she walked up from behind me and tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around and asked her to dance. She said, "Of course!" And that made me more excited to dance with her than before.

From there I introduced myself, danced with her for a minute, and then asked if she was a God-fearing woman; she said yes she was. And that was when I knew I was definitely having more than one dance with her.

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