D&V❤️

This is the story of how Dave and I became a couple.

Bare with me as it was a lifetime ago and they don't call me dory for no reason lol. When I met David I was a whole mess. I think I was 18 or 19 and I had just broken up with Jasmins dad and just moved back to NY from Florida. I was unstable to say the least. I had no job I was just all over the place. My bff was working at a museum in queens and David was her boss. I remember going to pick her up from work and meeting Rodney her supervisor and David, Rodney's boss.

If I tell you David and I are a love at first sight story, I'd be lying. I actually had an instant crush on Rodney. But he had a girlfriend and he was kind of mean and I think he wa ex-military so he was like rough and disciplined. Rodney and Dave were friends, Dave was friends with everyone. He was a likeable guy. Obviously I started picking Shanny up from work more in an attempt to flirt with Rodney. I wanted his big ass to throw me around and fuck me disrespectfully lol. It never happened.

Eventually I ended up working there too, under Rodney and Dave. David knew I was crushing on Rodney and we'd talk about it and laugh. We kind of became friends. I remember Shanny saying, you're gonna love him he's a male version of me. She was right. I don't remember much about early interactions, I remember us talking around the museum, he'd make rounds and whenever he'd get to my post we would talk for a bit. I remember him driving me home a couple times, I guess I should have taken that as a hint that he was interested.

One day after work he asked me to go out for drinks, I honestly did not see it as a date or as him showing interest. I was fucking clueless. He took me to this bar (Belmont) in the city, this place would soon become our regular spot. I miss it there, I miss Mason (the bouncer) we made a lot of memories there. I remember we got food, I hadn't eaten all day, I was a poor single teenage mom, could barely feed myself, all my money went towards my kid.

We got food, I ordered a peach martini (I think) and that one martini had me so fucked up. In between conversations and jokes he grabbed my hand and I just leaned in and kissed him. We spent the night together, and that was the beginning of our happily ever after.

I was really embarrassed after at work and I couldn't even look at him. Then we started having lunches together at work, dinners after work, lots of texting. We spent every single day together, he made more frequent visits to wherever I was posted. Whenever he'd drive me home we would sit in front of my building and just talk for hours. He used to drive a gray Honda Pilot at the time. I loved that car, we literally fell in love in that car.

After like 5-6 weeks of daily dates and countless hours of texting and talking it became really hard to be apart. By now I had been moved from the museum to a hotel and was working longer hours. But he would pick me up every single day, we'd have dinner, he'd drive me home. We would talk for hrs and then he would go home and we would talk on the phone lol. At this point, I remember one night we went to Applebees and for some reason he didn't drive that night and we were in a cab and when we got to my house and I was kissing him goodbye, I looked in his eyes and I just blurted out a very quick "I love you" I was kind of embarrassed about it but he smiled and he said it back. He gave me the best kiss I think we ever shared up until that point.

It really felt very fairytale-ish. Like I said I was a poor, single teen mom, nothing really going for me and here was this man 10 yrs older than me who seemed to have all his shit together and he actually wanted to be with me. David showed me a whole new world. Sounds cliché I know, but it's true. He showed me Manhattan in a way that I didn't even know was real. He took me to places I had never even heard of. He bought me all these fancy things that I didn't even dream of having. He took me on vacations, and we had a little spot that we liked to go after some dates. It was romantic af, we'd walk around, sit on the grass and talk and it was so peaceful.

Soon it became apparent that we just wanted to be with each other, we made each other insanely happy, and I just wanted him. I didn't have eyes, ears, nothing for anyone else. He became my everything. He was the love of my life, I had never loved this hard. He taught me how to love properly and like a grown up. He taught me to believe in myself and that I was capable of more than I gave myself credit for. He was my biggest supporter, he felt like I could do anything. I was so grateful to have met him.

We fell in love hard and fast. We started our little family pretty quickly too and the rest is history.