On a hot summer day, in the middle of a crowded restaurant, I collapsed. When I arrived, I saw a sea of unknown faces and an EMT. When I turned my head, I sighed in relief to the comforting view of my catering partner – a man I only saw for two weeks.
We met by a common friend
A few weeks ago, he and I met for the first time through a common friend. They had been in the same fraternity at university, and our friend had been talking to us for a month because he thought we had succeeded. When he organized a birthday party in New Jersey, my next meeting came from his home to Boston to celebrate, and we finally met.
At first, he was shy and couldn’t only say hello. But he finally opened, and we hit him.
The party was Friday, and he was categorical on an appointment before returning to Boston this Sunday evening. At the end of the date, he told me that he was bad in sms, calls and facetime. I shook my head, thinking that it would never work between us, especially with the distance. But against all expectations, after two weeks of sms and calls, I booked a two -week trip to Boston, where I would stay with him for the first week, and my college friends the second week.
The author’s adaptation went with her to the emergency room after having a crisis. Photo credit: Benjamin Tayas
At first, I was wondering if we were moving too fast
A few days after my visit, we attended an EDM concert to see one of our favorite artists. During the rave, he turned to me and shouted: “I think I’m in love with you!”
Removed, I pushed the comment and told him to repeat it another time. The next morning, he doubled the comment and, on our next date, asked me to be his girlfriend.
I told him it was too early. I felt like he was bombing me and was hasty with this decision. I was nervous, he would feel differently once we separated, and he could break with me a few months later when he realized that he no longer felt the same thing.
I had a crisis, and he was there for me
A week later, we had breakfast before my return bus. We were released the day before and I didn’t feel well. The restaurant was crowded, so we sat down at the bar with high chairs. I caught a sip of my water; Then everything became black.
From what he tells me, I started to make a strange stretch with my left arm. I came across my left side and I hit my head against the wall. Once on the ground, I started to grab about two minutes, which does not look long, but time is relative. Fortunately, one of the waitresses had experience with convulsions and returned to me. Once he stopped, they sat down and put a towel behind my head.
When I arrived, I remember being unable to speak. As the EMT asked me questions, I answered in my head, but the words did not come out of my mouth. They finally put me on a stretcher, rolled me at the back of the ambulance and asked my appointment if he wanted to come with it. He even followed before the EMT finished the sentence. I remember seeing his face; He looked like someone had sucked her life. He was pale and his orbits were sunk.
The author and his boyfriend made their official relationship to the emergency room. With the kind permission of Suha Cho
We made it official to the emergency room
I couldn’t walk, so they put me in a wheelchair. Everything was so surreal. Suddenly, the man I had only known for two weeks now was driving me in a wheelchair. I wouldn’t have blamed him for never wanting to see me again.
After six hours of waiting in the emergency room, I was admitted to sorting. The nurse asked me questions, especially who was my companion and if he was a friend or a boyfriend. As it was a complicated situation and that I could not tell him that we were not exactly official because I had rejected him a week before, I told him that he was my boyfriend.
When the nurse left, I said joking him: “I guess we go out together now!”
He laughs, but the smile slowly is. He started to tear himself away and said, “I finally got you, and I almost lost you. I never want to lose you.”
At that time, I realized that he really loved me. It was not a silly relationship with him; He was serious about me, it just took me a crisis to achieve myself.
It was almost two years ago, and we are still together. We have long been difficult to be physically together, we have it operated by visiting at least once a month. Although having a crisis has been unpleasant, I am actually grateful for experience. It reassured me that everything happens for a reason.
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