I am oh-so-single right now, but I think the story of how I met my last ex is still kind of cute all of these years later. Even though she is an ex, and that is that!
Back in high school marching band, in my junior year, a girl moved in from another state. She was in the same section as me, so we interacted. Eventually she found out I was obsessed with the bassoon and really wanted to play it (this is such ancient history that it was
before I played the bassoon, yes). She told me that she had a sister back home who played the bassoon and that someday we really needed to meet.
In the summer before my senior year, her sister moved up here. We didn't get introduced for a long time. She was in marching band, too, but we didn't actually meet until the school year had started and we were in concert season together. I still didn't play the bassoon, but she did. I remember one day she let me hold hers, and it was the first time I ever got to hold a bassoon and I was happy, and we became BFFs. (Well, obviously, 'forever' doesn't count in the end... but, you know.).
We had 0% attraction to each other that entire year. Like literally 0%. lol. It wasn't until college. I had the courage to come out to her, the first person outside of my family I had ever trusted with that outside of online. She was the first person that ever accepted me and it was great. Around then attraction started to form. A few months later we decided to date. It was a happy time.
...But it is over, and I'm glad. I think a few years ago us getting more distant and distant from each other made her stop playing the bassoon because we were playing in the same orchestra and I feel very bad. I want her to go play again. But it's also possible that her interests have changed and she really doesn't care to play anymore and that's part of what helped me get over her. We're not the same people we were a decade ago.
The story of how I met my current 'crush' is a much stranger story, but it's just a crush, so...
I wish upon a star it could ever become something more, because she makes me so happy.