I was so happy. I hadn't been in love for so very long, and I was beginning to feel as though I wasn't loveable.
But, Rachel made me so happy. Her eyes expressed such happiness and joy and her way, her colourful character, was like a child - full of craziness, adventure, but beauty.
How we met? It wasn't special. I was working for a moving company, and she happened to be our client. When I first saw her, I was mesmerized at her face and I remember feeling an ache in my gut - thinking I would never be with this woman. It's that feeling you get when you realize not every woman can be yours. It hurts.
I was the leader of the moving team and my guys would look to me to protect our honour. What honour? Oh shit. Moving men get know respect...none at all. And I'm not talking about hi, how are you, or we loved your work so here's a twenty..
No, people dump on moving men like they belong to them. It's awful and when you get home at night, it hurts really badly.
But not Rachel. Right from the start, she looked at all of us in the eyes and spoke to us like we were all on one level. After meeting her at her old place, all the guys were convinced that she was in love with them.
but I knew she was in love with me.
It was 12 midnight when we got everything off the truck at Rachel's new place. We were 200 miles from home, 50 miles away from a hotel and none of us had an oz. worth of strength to move.
"Ha, Guys why don't you sleep here", Rachel said. "There's lot's of room."
The guys figured this seemed right and respectively and thankfully went off to find a room for themselves.
So it was just me and Rachel left awake.
"So", she says to me, "so, interested in doin what you're interested in doin'?"