Once Upon a time there was a girl named... Roz :).
When Roz was in the 6th Grade, she fell in love.
Love at First Sight at 12 years old... yeah right.
Roz was big into 4H. She showed sheep and dairy cattle.
In 2006 is when Roz really fell in love with this boy...
... Bradley. <3
Bradley also was big into 4-H. Brad showed beef cattle and sheep.
Brad and Roz worked together on a dairy farm, which is where the love sparked...
Roz's best friend became this boy who had stolen her heart at such a young age.
Through many years of working together, hanging out, and being best friends,
they started to know each other inside out.
Roz knew how Bradley worked.
Although she denied to him for years that she had a crush on him...
secretly he knew it deep down.
Roz was very bad at hiding this infatuation with Bradley. But Bradley...
he was exactly opposite. Roz started accepting the fact that Bradley just "wasn't interested" in her.
Grade school went by quickly and Roz was off to high school.
Although Roz was still in 4-H with Bradley, their relationship went seperate ways.
Brad hung out with his High School friends, while Roz stared hanging out with new friends from
her own high school.
Brad graduated High school and went off to college. Roz was still in High school.
Connection was lost, so they both moved on.
Brad started dating girls from college, and Roz started dating friends of her own.
Roz's summer before her senior year in High School somthing super unexpected happened...
Brad moved back to Hospers...
Much to Roz's relief, her best friend was back... but they were both dating people and both
in pretty serious relationships.
But that didn't stop them....
Roz and her boyfriend of the time were having troubles. He was jealous because Roz was hanging
out with Bradley and other friends too much at the fair, and not spending enough time with him.
To top that off, Brads girlfriend of the time was thinking the same thing.
Coincidence?... nope. That wasn't planned.
The last night of the Fair, Brad and Roz sat at the campfire together at the campground where our
parents were camping together. We got to talking about the good old days, and thats when it happened.
We both realized we were still in love with eachother.
We missed each others presence.
We missed each others friendship.
We held each other in a long hug, and decided on one thing...
It was time to break up with the others.
So we did it together. While I had my hands full with breaking up with an emotional boy...
Brad had his hands full with a pissed off girl...
Word got around that we both broke up on the same time, at the SAME hour...
and people started suspecting things.
And they suspected right.
Brad and Roz had planned this.
And Brad and Roz were now together!
Brad came to most of Roz's Basketball games, watching her cheer.
Roz went over to Brad's place for many bonfires and to hang out with friends.
They hung out almost every night of the week.
Best friends were re-united.
Brad and Roz were both as happy as ever and things were starting to get serious.
But...
suddenly out of the blue...
Brad broke up with Roz...
Brad's Excuse... He was moving to Mississippi.
Roz wanted to do the long distance thing.
Brad didn't.
A few weeks went by, and Roz didn't say a word to Brad.
She was not happy, she was heart broken....
After a few more weeks went by, Brad called Roz.
Of course, Roz picked up right away!
Brad appolagized for the break up and wanted to start hanging out again.
The Mississippi thing had fallen through, so he was staying in Iowa.
Roz invited Brad to her High School's Fall Ball, where the Love came back right away.
Brad and Roz started hanging out like they did the previous months.
They didn't consider themselves boyfriend and girlfriend...
just friends that had a special bond...
December came and went...
January came and went...
When once again, Brad got the news that he was moving to Mississippi.
A few weeks later, Brad was gone, once again, from Roz's life.
So Roz moved on.
Roz went and got a new boyfriend a month and a half later.
The thing was... she Really liked this boy.
She had gone to High School with him for four years.
She worked with him at the nursing home.
She even played the same sport as him.
They spent alot of time together and she really enjoyed his company.
He understood her, and made her feel loved.
He cared for her when she had knee surgery, he supported her through hard times.
Two months went by, and not a word from Brad.
Roz was again... happy.
The week of Tulip festival came, and Roz got a text.
From Brad... He was back home.
Roz explained to him that she was happily in a relationship,
and had no intentions of ending it. So he understood.
At the Tulip Festival, Roz ran into Brad.
They caught up on life and talked for a while.
As much as Roz didn't want to admitt it... She was back in love.
He had his spell over her yet again! :)
But Roz ignored it.
She was happy without him, and she never thought that was possible.
Senior Class trip came. Roz rode the whole way up to Minneapolis
with her boyfriend on the buss.
Once again, Roz got a text...
Brad.
It read...
"I Love You. Come Back."
"... Ugh... What now?!" She thought.
"I still love him too, but I'm also happy."
After a whole day to think things through and a 5 hr buss ride back to Orange City.
Roz made up her decision.
She rode home with her boyfriend, and hugged him goodbye.
Graduation day Came.
Practice went and came for the ceremony...
She had to get it over with.
So she text her boyfriend.
...
They talked things out.
He undesrstood.
He knew she still loved Brad.
He didn't want to hold her back, so he let her go.
As hard as it was for Roz, she accepted the fact.
She liked this boy, but she loved the other.
She didn't want to through that love away.
Roz went through the whole ceremony,
the graduation party, and the food.
The whole time thinking about Brad.
...
What did Roz do as soon as the grad party was over?
...
You guessed it. She met up with Brad.
She hugged and kissed him.
She missed him.
She Loved Him.
10 amazing months later...
ENGAGED!
Thats right.
You heard me.
After 6 long years of
1. Best Friends.
2. Other boyfriends/girlfriends
3.High School
4. Break Up
5. College
6. Moving a few times
They were Engaged...
I told you.. at age 12, she knew it was love at first sight.
Now, just 12 days away... They will be
"Mr. and Mrs. Brad Punt"
12 DAYS!
You may not believe in Love at First Sight. But I tell you what.
I do.
I don't expect everyone to believe in it.
But I do.
It happened to me. I am marrying my best friend. My Pride and Joy. My everlasting Love.
He's the half that makes me whole and the apple to my eye.
I have loved him from the first time I ever saw him.
A mere 12 years old, and I knew it was him.
Now, 8 years later, I'm marrying him.
It was a long haul... but it was well worth it.
Thanks for reading everyone!
Sorry its a long one....
<3 Roz! ;)
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