My name is Trena and this is my story of eternal love-
When a couple vows in marriage to love and to hold until death do them part they are promising eachother eternal love, me and Bradley never walked down the aisle together and never will have that opportunity, but we were continuously drawn to eachother time and time again until we thought we had a near perfect life........
We met May 1998 it was the long weekend (Victoria Day) in Cassidy B.C. A friend of mine used to race Go-Karts and had invited me to the racetrack to camp with her family for the weekend. I was 15 years old, he would have been 14.
I thought he was the sweetest thing i had ever seen, so freakin cute it made me crazy, we talked and talked and talked and that night he told me he loved me, albeit I told him that wasnt possible, but he seemed to beleive it.
It was an amazing summer I remember like it was yesterday and i had the 100% full on teenage crush- I had a collage of his pictures in my room and doodled our names all over everything, but alas we lived in different towns and too young for drivers lisences we struggled to stay together. We drifted to and from eachother a few times and one of the times we got back together I remember he told my friend he was going to get down on one knee and ask me back out. My friend being the loyal friend she was of course told me so i was well prepared for all this, he bervously tried to call me downstairs I played coy and when we got to the basement all alone in a big rec room he looks at me and says "I told Amber I was going to get down on one knee do i have to" I just looed at the floor and gestured that he should, and he did, he was always sweet like that.
I remember catching the bus often to see him, and i remember us both praying I would miss the bus and have to spend the night, but his mother always got us there on time- despite our attempts.
As we grew into young adults our paths crossed less frequently and they they did they werent always the right time for both of us and again we would drift apart.
One night after havign a few drinks a friend of mine and me decided to call him randomly and out of the blue, he answered his phone and i talked to him for a short while then she did- he was heading out fishing the next day for 5 months and wouldnt have cell service.
His little sister was a friend of mine on facebook and sometime that summer i messaged her asking why Bradley didnt have a facebook, hes not into computers she told me but he does have a plenty of fish account she said.
Hmmmm he must be single I got that devilish look in my eye, keyed in the web address and immediatly made a POF account (for those who dont know this is a free dating site) I stated on my profile i was not searching for a commitment or relationship of any time that i was searching for a friend. Created my account then immeditaly tracked down his profile and sent a message, i think it was something simple, like hey how r u my sister said you had this account why dont you have facebook? heres my number call sometime. and that was that.
It was the end of september before i got a response
My phone rang and it was him. We still lived in towns an hour apart, but his parents have a vacation home 15 mintues from my house at the lake, he called said him and his cousin were coming to town if i wanted to get together- o how i did and o how excited i was- so much so i called my bff right away and was running around my room tryingto find an outfit and do my hair and makeup when my foot stepped down on the ground my back gave out and i couldnt get up- i spent the next 45 minutes deciding what to do i could barely walk. (this was a reccurring back problem i have recently had repaired by surgey)
So he showed up at my house looking cuter than ever after a 5 month fishing job and i went and visited for a bit but came home to rest my back. He called minutes after i got home and said hed like to cook me dinner and would make me a nest on the couch where i could rest. I couldnt resist.
We enjoyed our visit and spent a few days together then he was heading out for a 3 week long hunting trip, but the day he got back it was official, it was the 6th time we dated but we were back together Oct 23rd 2008 was our official newest anniversary date. We spent hours and hours together talking planning enjoying and getting to know one another inside and out as mature adults who liked to have fun :)
Dec 15th 2008 he secured a rental house in his town for us- I was jumping in with both feet I was moving to his town and we were moving in togehter both of us knew we had to just jump in and see if this really was our chance at true love.
We were enjoying life, we werent rich but had enough that we were eating and drinking merrily, we went for long drives looking at deer or hiking for deer sheds, fishing or boating, and always enjoyed our adventures, we got a pleasant suprise in June 2009 we were expecting and baby would be due March 5th 2010. Our lives slowed a bit we still went ofr drives to look at deer (his all time favorite pasttime next to fishing or hunting lol) but we werent staying up late and drinking (although im sure he missed it a bit more than i did)
Our beautiful son was born Feb 27th 2010 7 lbs 12oz with a full head of dark hair. We were parents and that baby was perfect.
I sunk my time and soul into our son and forgot simetimes to take time for me and for us as a couple, but we were young parents and were enjoying being a family, trips to go on a hayride to get a pumpkin, first boat ride and little fishing excursion in the lake down the road, garage sales on sundays, flea markets, kids events we tried to do things often as a family and Brad always said "I always enjoy when we do things as a family" it was always music to my ears.
We had talked about moving to my hometown again, a small community with nice schools and lots of fishing and hunting for him and my family and friends for me, and when he became frustrated at his job at the time he came to my hometown and handed out some resumes, he was offered almost immediatly a job that offered more per hour in a cheaper town, so we bagn packing out whole house and within 15 days moved me him the baby and 3 cats to a rental where my roots run deep.
I always loved Bradley, my friends always said I talked of him often before we got together in 2008 i guess i never realized how often he really was on my mind, I called him my baby Bradley when we were young, I remembered how soft his hair was and where his dimples on his cekkes sat, as a young adult he often sported a beard and I could describe in detail the colour of his eyes.
May 29th 2011 days over the 13 year anniversary when we had met my world toppled over. I had finally found the love of my life although really he was there right in front of me all along. A love that never waned from year to year from teenager to adult I loved him and everthing that came with it- and it was all ripped from my grasp. There had been an accident and Brad was no longer with us........
NO NO NO NO NO
I will love you forver as long as my soul lives you're a a part of me who i am and who i will become this is the definition of Eternal Love
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