The First Kiss…

I admit it.

Last week was a bit of a tease.

Not entirely intentional, but how do you write about the uncanny and impossible story of finding your soul mate in just one blog post?

The chance meeting

The unlikely scenario

And then 4 years later, the email…..

Let me start in the middle.

When the plane landed in Chicago, I was a nervous mess of anxious, anticipative and scared.

Did I look alright?

Did I look good enough?  After all, he hadn’t seen me in three years.

What if this wasn’t real?

What if I was just a desperate Mom of two, clinging to the hope that romance and true love really existed?

Did he mean what he said in the email?

Why was the man beside me speaking so damn loud into his cell phone?

And why the hell haven’t we parked this plane and opened the doors already???

I’m going to skip the part about me walking through O’Hare airport, getting lost on the way to baggage claim and the fact I accidently walked into the ‘Men’s’ bathroom to do a hair and make-up check.

I was nervous, absent-minded and apparently, completely lost in “la-la” land – not my best moments and most certainly not relevant to the story….

From forty feet away I could see his eyes.

He hadn’t yet seen me, so I took a moment to stare.

Motionless

Transfixed

He was beautiful.

More beautiful than I remember him being three years before.

Crystal blue eyes with lashes that I swear could touch me from where he stood.

Broad shoulders, muscular arms and a presence that made him standout from absolutely everyone else in the crowded baggage claim area.

A competitive boxer and clearly athletic, but with a softness about him that was so incredibly irresistible.

Is it odd that I started crying?

I had been up since 4am in order to catch my early morning flight to Xanadu.  I was tired and overrun with emotion – but why was I crying?

When he saw me, I realized why.

His smile made his ocean blue’s dance.

His delicate touch and gentle lips were stark contrasts to his powerful physique.

True love makes a woman cry.

And this woman had never felt it before.

“You have long enchanted me.

The first time (and only time) I met you, I was taken.

You are absolutely gorgeous, but your spirit, personality, smile, elegance and candor are entirely spell-binding.

I have had a very silent crush on you ever since. That word is so teenage cliché, but it’s the only one I can use that will draw any degree of connection to how I’ve felt.

You are intelligent, passionate, gorgeous (did I already say that one!), insightful, spiritual and incredibly gentle.

I have no wishes, no agenda and no motives.

But I have no intentions of going to my grave with thoughts, songs or poems in my heart.

And thus…..

You have been told how I feel”

Four weeks before that first kiss, this was part of the email he had sent me.

What has happened to my life since, to my soul, is something the most gifted romance writer in the history of this world could not capture with pen and paper.

Next week, I’m going to share his entire email with you…….

True love is real.  Don’t you dare settle for anything less.

Stay Sexy,

C2

P.S. – I’ve lived inside this dream for 6 months now and admit to having no perspective.  For me, it’s changed from a romantic impossibility to just my day-to-day life…. So please, leave a comment – Are you enjoying reading ‘My Story’?