In the beginning, my brother had just finished Navy boot camp. He was coming home for the second time for me and the rest of the family to see him. However, this time he was bringing friends that I had never met. His girlfriend, and his close friend Christopher Horne. We all just called him Horne, as it was what they called him in the Navy until he encouraged us to just call him Chris. But when I met Chris, it was like love at first sight. I became shy around him, barely able to speak. Giggling at everything he said, blushing when he touched me, hands in front of my body as if that would be enough to hide me from his eyes. Later I would find that he found all this adorable. However, I quickly gained a crush on him and thought about him often. When he came back for 4th of July weekend, my crush continued. I tried to be more open. Talking more, smiling, being playful and nice... it wasn't until we had a couple drinks and went to retire downstairs so my brother and his girlfriend could share a bed did we really start talking. I had rested my head on his lap and he began running his fingers through my hair, making me relax. We talked about family, friends, my brother... and then finally I worked up the courage to flirt a little. He warned me that I should be careful because he had no trouble kissing me when he was drunk. His warning brought out the more wild side of me, and I dared him to kiss me. He smiled and asked if I didn't think he would and I shrugged, saying I wouldn't know until he proved it. But I only got most of my words out before he bent over and kissed me. Most of the night was kissing and I confessed my crush on him. He told me he liked me too, and after that our relationship was mostly in secret. Until two weeks later when he told my brother he loved me and then my brother told my mother. Then our secret was out. Almost a month later, we found out he had orders for Yokosuka, Japan after his C school in San Diego. I was still falling deeper in love with him, and tried to cope with the idea of him being on the other side of the world. However, its not that easy and it only took me a week to break apart and cry in his arms, almost begging him not to leave and try to get orders here in the USA. He told me that is exactly what he wanted to do and would find a way to get his orders changed because we found out that they wouldn't take me to Japan with him unless we were married. It was a week later that Chris said he had a surprise for me, which threw me for a loop. But the following weekend my brother told my mother, father and I that Chris would be proposing to me. It angered me quite a bit that my brother would spoil such a secret, but now looking back on it, if he hadn't the wedding wouldn't have been planned in time before he went to C school. I wanted to help pay for the wedding, but my mother and father rushed into action and began helping me plan and pay for the entire thing. The only thing my fiance and I need to pay for now is the rings, the hotel, the license, and the plane tickets to Georgia to see his family and my future mother-in-law after the wedding. But I already spoke to my future mother-in-law and she is a very nice lady. All my friends that matter are excited for me and most of them are attending, just a couple being bride's maids. But both our families are excited by the idea, though my dad is still coming to terms with his little girl being married in less than two weeks. But I am as happy as I can be, and it doesn't matter who tries to put a damper on my good mood, all I have to do is do a little looking around on the net or at stores for the wedding supplies needed and my good mood comes back. I say people try to put a damper on my good mood because there have been more than a couple guys I have told of my engagement and they have not taken the news in the best light. Of course, they are all guys that were in love with me and I didn't realize it until I was already engaged and they told me, but this crap happens and I am not about to get any second thoughts. I love my Navy man far too much. He and I prove that love at first sight can work and I know he will be a good husband and a good father. ^^ I'll be sure to post pictures of the wedding and my wedding dress once its all over. My husband is on Devart so I can't post my gown pics until after the wedding or else the surprise will be ruined. But yay! Less than two weeks! It'll be a Celtic wedding and on Sunday, September 13th. ^_^ Soo excited!!