Brandon

For all intents and purposes I didn't decide to involve myself romantically with boys until college. However, there was this boy I went to school with in middle school named Brandon who rode my school bus and made me laugh. So since I saw him twice a day and enjoyed to laugh I decided that I liked him and therefore wanted him to be my boyfriend without really knowing what that really meant. Taking charge of the situation I asked Brandon one day before I got off the school bus if he would be my boyfriend. He said no. Haley Ward, one of my friends at the time, who, strangely enough, I saw at the Tin Top while I was working the other night, threatened to beat him up for being mean to me and not saying yes. It would be a safe assumption to assume that Haley scared him because he asked me the same day if I wanted to be his girlfriend. I said yes.   Strange enough, I don't remember ever really talking to him that much. Brandon got on the bus about thirty minutes after I did so for thirty minutes I would listen to music and talk to my other friends, but as soon as he got on the bus I would pretend to be asleep so he wouldn't sit next to me because I was to embarrassed to talk to him. However, despite avoiding him hard core and not talking to him I, being the great girlfriend that middle school me was, bought him a Christmas present. It was small, a piece of candy I think? I gave it to him the last day we rode the bus before Christmas break began. 

On the first day back after our vacation, he comes on the bus with a belated Christmas present. I remember thinking it was huge! When I unwrapped it I found this cute and adorable stuffed animal. Needless to say Brandon and I didn't stick together for very long, but I kept the animal.

I was doing laundry the other day after my mom had unpacked a bunch of stuff from our boxes from moving a billion times. (We've moved so much that we have stuff packed in boxes from 3 moves ago that we have yet to unpack.) Guess what I found unpacked? The stuffed animal Brandon gave me. I always loved that animal.

Poor Brandon.