How we met: his and hers- continued

Chelsea's version

I am by far not a good of a writer as Derek so if you just want to read his part, by all means scroll down!

The first time I met Derek was when he came to my house to introduce himself as our home teacher in August. I remember thinking to myself how cute this red and curly headed guy was. He was really shy but I thought it intriguing. We would talk every once in awhile in church and when he would come over to teach us. I remember talking in church and trying to crack jokes to get him to laugh, and then feeling dumb because they were really bad jokes. I think he just laughed out of pity.

A couple of months into living in Provo I became really sick and needed a blessing. Derek and another boy came over to give my a blessing and I had to promise myself I wouldn't say anything weird. He didn't stay too long after the blessing and because of my wonderful anxiety thought it was something I said. (I am sure he doesn't even remember any of this.

Finally at the very first of November we were both sitting by each other at ward prayer. I was saying my usual Chelsea thing but he was laughing at everything. We all decided to have an after ward prayer game night at his place and play pool with his apartment and mine. We all arrived and Derek wanted to show us some videos he had made, I happened to be sitting on the love sac where he needed to sit to set up the video. As we started talking something felt different and I couldn't stop smiling. We decided to play pool after that and Derek and I were put on the same team. As the game went on we were giggling and doing all the flirting stuff I didn't know I had inside of me. We kept "messing up" to get the game to go on longer and for some odd reason I offered to run home and grab my Newsies soundtrack.

Upon turning it on I started dancing, (and guys I never dance in front of people I don't know very well, my confidence would of never have stood for it. But for some reason that night all my insecurities went away) soon derek was singing and dancing to every word and it turned out to be one of the funnest nights of my life, even if some other people in the room couldn't stand to listen to musicals. We didn't care.