Count to 100 and I will be there...



Fourteen is young to find true love, it's rare... and it never lasts... I've heard it all... you guys will never survive past high school... you may as well just break up.... sure enough... we made it past high school... next it's two years is a long time... every body knows it wont work out when he gets home... a lot can happen in two years, people change, you will be engaged after 6 months, you are going to distract him and he is going to write you off... again... i have heard it all... I am about to tell you why this situation is so much more... different than all of the rest...Why it has been a love to last an entire life time.. or even better.. eternity<3

A fourteen year old girl prays to find a best friend, on that will be more true to her and more loyal than the ones in the past, a best friend that will be as good of a friend as she is to them.. to her. She prayed to find that friend who shares similar values and beliefs and wouldn't doubt or question her faith... some one to help her hold strong to her beliefs as well as she would help them.

Not to long after she meets a boy named Cade Mangelson... Intrigued she asks every one around what they know about him... "don't go for him he's a player" or.. "he doesn't like to have just one girlfriend he likes to have two or three" my favorite
"he would never like a girl like you"

So i put this boy in the back of my mind... time and time again we kept running into each other. I continued to ignore this cocky egocentric, player... i pretended as though he was non existent.. WHEN one day... he got my phone number from a friend.. I am sitting painting my nails when i hear my phone buzz.. "new text: 801-604-1964" ugh who could it be... i open my phone and it's cade! i was furious! how did he get my number!?!? i didn't respond instantly... finally "Hey sorry i was painting my nails, whats up?" we text for a minute and then i have to go out to mow my lawn so i complain about having to move around the tramp and all other heavy things and that i would text him when i finished... "I am batman, so i will come mow the lawn and move those heavy things for you.. batman can do anything" my reply... "HAHAH! Batman, if you are batman...what does that make me then, a duck??? i will text you later" So bratty little me turns off the phone and goes out to mow the lawn...

As i am mowing the lawn and moving these heavy things... i can not get to so called batman off my mind... i kept finding thoughts like "Man, if only batman was here to save me from this" or "Oh how embarrassing would it be if he really came to help, i am stinky gross and sweaty.." the rest of the time i mowed i was in fear he might actually show up, when realistically i knew he had no idea where i lived.

After that moment we were texting nonstop... i could not get batman out of my brain. I had a little boyfriend at the time, but slowly iwas beginning to lose interest and the boy i worked so hard to avoid was beginning to consume my every thought.

A few weeks later and a couple of times after hanging out in groups it was our friend zachs birthday party, i was so excited cade was coming. I spent the entire day hanging out with rob(my boy at the time) wishing i was with cade at the new pirates of the Caribbean movie..

Rob and I hitch a ride from my parents to the party, mean while i am still plotting how to break up with him so i can give cade a shot... An hour into the party i found out that rob had cheated on me  MY MOST PERFECT OUT!!! so it was over. :)

Not even the slightest bit crushed I start texting cade even more asking where he is, he tells me "I am getting close, if you count to 100 i will be there" i count to 100 still no boy, he tells me to start counting again and i think i got to 35 when he snuck up behind me and gave me the biggest and the BEST hug EVER! Afew boys crept off and found a snake, they tried to pin me down and let it crawl all up on my face, and that is when cade saved me ahe picked me up and held me close, at that moment my whole world went on pause... i heard nothing else around me, at that moment i knew he was my hero my "batman" i knew my life was about to change... But our moment was broken quickly by immature boys around us who stole my camera and of course cade had to join in on the flirty little games they were all playing...

I watched as cade was the last boy to have my camera in his possession, i called a group huddle "who ever has my camera, gets a kiss if you give it back.. ;)" cade could not throw me my camera fast enough!!! after that i began to think "ohhhhh shiz, this perfect boy, this cocky little brat, this boy who is a total ladies man, this boy who has far more experience in kissing than me, and i have to give him a kiss tonight... how do i get out of this????????????????????????"

Sure enough he held me to it constantly texting and asking when he got his kiss... Finally we are running out of time, i get all the courage i have in my little body and as him to go for a walk with me...at that point my next fear was "do i hold his hand, do i grab his arm, do i put my arm around his waist!? what do i do!??!?" so i put my hands in my sweatshirt pockets. So nervous i talked the poor kids ears off about who knows what, dragged him all over the park, he pushed me on the swings, stared at me with such intent, my parents call and the are almost there, so we walk down this quiet path way where he stops me and grabs my hand, we share the most perfect hug under the brightest full moon, i look up at him and see pure love in his eyes, he perfectly grabs my chin and we kiss. Sparks are flying, my heart is racing, and my lips are tingling... At that moment i knew my life was never going back to how it was. i knew i was in love.

We shared a most perfect summer together, and a perfect now 5 plus years of dating, cade still continues to be my batman and keep me safe. He literally saved my life that summer, i know that god put him in my life so we could save each other, to help each other become better people. To carry each other through times of trial... He is my biggest blessing and i thank god for him each and every single night. I can not wait for these next 10 months to be in the past so i can hold my perfect man in my arms again <3