Today I’ll be telling a story of love. Current love. Real love.
This story doesn’t begin romantically like a fairytale, but it’s special to me all the same.
After I had finally moved past A (see previous story) I took my year of solitude to reflect on my life and better myself as a person. I had completely left any idea of love in my life behind me and I was happier than I had ever been. That decision was integral to leaving the ways of childhood behind me and becoming a self-loving, self-caring, wholesomely minded adult. I was in the best shape of my life, I had begun writing my flagship series “Spiritborn”, and things were only looking more promising. Before I knew it, two years had gone by. I returned to California and began what would be my career in nursing.
From here we begin the story of how I met Malaki.
Our story began with a bit of boredom and a scroll through Facebook. I saw his face and something just clicked in my mind. I thought “I have to talk to this person”. It was 3am, but I decided that I would send him a message now and he would probably see it in the morning. To my surprise messaged back right away. We talked all night. One night turned to two. Two nights turned into every night.
I, being the outspoken extrovert, asked him on a date on the first night. He, being the socially anxious introvert, had me wait two weeks. I hadn’t been in a relationship for two years at this point so I was in no hurry. Both of us had expressed our fondness for each other as we found our similar love for the arts. He is a painter and gardener and I am a writer. I love the natural world and any form of art and he loves reading. We shared our pieces and talked about our inspirations and somewhere in that big mix we fell for each other. The first date we met with a couple mutual friends and it was so natural right from the beginning. We drove in silence (which we still do) content in observing the world go by. Once we were at the park, his love for plants shined. I listened to him talk about the different plants he saw and pick the ones he saw fit. I, with my complete lack of knowledge, just agreed that they were pretty. There was something very endearing about his geekiness in that regard.
Our second date I took him to my home where he criticized my… minimalist decorations. We watched a movie together and laughed at how we could barely follow the plot we were talking so much. I cooked nice little dinner for both of us and time flew by until I took him home. We saw each other at every opportunity and just over a month later he had all but moved in with me.
That brings us to today. Seven months, an untold number of random decorations, fifty decorative rocks, twelve extra blankets, ten plants, and a cat later. I can honestly say this is the happiest relationship I’ve ever been in and above all it’s an adult relationship. Malaki and I compliment each other so well each one stepping up where the other has their weakness.
I’ve never been so excited for both my career and love future.
To our future,
Kyle
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