He decided to not date period. David figured that he needed to work hard on school and not get distracted. He thought that he wasn't ready for marriage, and he knew that when he dated, he dated for keeps. The next girl he dated was going to be serious....then my family came into town.
My little sister Angel is 16. She's a cutie with a sassy attitude. Living in West Virginia does not give you the best odds, dating wise. The boys there are just different. They don't often open the door for you, they sometimes pay, and the dating scene is just normal. Here, the boys are gentleman! They're chivalrous. There's this weird thing that they do where they put women on the crazy weird pedestal. I wanted Angel to experience it. So, it was decided that Angel needed to go on a date. No big deal, I just needed to find a man who hadn't been on a mission and was still 18. I didn't realize at the time that it would be such a difficult task!
While discussing this dilemma with my friend Millie, she suggested her friends. One of them was 18 and would love to go on a little date with my sister. She said that we could all go on a triple date, we would just need to ask them out. I was willing to do it for the good of my sister. My ears certainly peaked a little when she mentioned that I could ask David, who was on my radar. Done!
So, we drive up to their house. While in the car, we come up with a game plan. Since Millie knows the boys the best, she'll start talking about it. I'll then explain a little bit of the situation, and she will ask them if they could possibly go with us on a really cheap date of Dairy Queen ice cream. They could pay and open our doors and show my little sister what real men are like....that was the plan. We go in, Millie doesn't say anything. I start getting really nervous. I feel like I'm back in the mission field when I was just out. I don't know how to start because I'm so nervous. I NEVER ask out boys! That's their job! David looks at us with a suspicious glance...."So....what's going on?" He asks, knowing that we're up to something. Then I think (like we Bought a Zoo): "All it takes is 15 seconds of insane courage...a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do!" I start, "So I have this adorable little sister named Angel..." I end up asking them out. David emphatically agrees to go. He sounded excited, which made me excited! We decide to go on our triple date.
The date was amazing. It was cute and fun and great. David and I start texting. He flirts a little, I flirt a little back. I decide I like the kid. I like him so much I want to ask him out again! What a strange thing for me!!!! Millie and I develop a plan. We'll ask the boys out again in order to thank them for taking us out! Excellent idea! They won't suspect a thing! A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do! So, I ask him out again! He says sure. We decide that it's going to be really fun! Now to the tricky part. It's difficult to be a guy. Planning a date is really complicated when you try to figure out what they might want and how much time you all want to spend together and how you should treat them and what vibes you want to send out and if you should pay or if they should pay....the list of complications goes on and on. I feel bad for all the times when I wished guys would ask me out more. No wonder it's not super frequent. It's difficult stuff. Anyway, we go on our date and the first thing they ask is, "So...are you going to open the door for us?" Haha! And the night began with humor. The entire night Millie and I acted like the guys and Jo and David acted like the girls. We ordered for them, we opened the doors...the date was a long one. We went to Sub Zero then we went to play pool. At the end of the night we hugged as friends and he said, "Well, we need to do this again sometime." Sweet! I was in! He likes me! I thought. Little did I know about his conviction to not date.
I got tickets to general conference from my dad. I decided that I really wanted to do with David. Since I had 4 tickets for both Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning and two for priesthood, I thought it would be a brilliant idea to all go as friends. It was a while away, but I was sure we were going to take things slowly if anything sparked between us. So, I asked him. I told him that I was just asking him as a friend. This was NOT a date! The next date that we went on, the ball was in his court. I made it clear that I was NOT asking him out again. A girl might have to do what a girl has to do, but she only has to do it so far...after that, it's his turn! We text nonstop. We do things together throughout this whole time, not dates, but just being together. For two days he says nothing about a date. Maybe longer than two days. My heart pitter patters. I'm so nervous! All of the thoughts are racing in my head...he hates me! I'm just seeing into this more than there really was! How could he ever be interested in me? I can't believe that I thought this amazing man could be interested in me! He's such an idiot, but oh no, maybe I didn't explain exactly that I was interested in him. What am I going to do? Finally, he asked me out. For me, it was validation that he could possibly like me. For him, that signified the end of his bachelor era. The end of his time when he wasn't dating anyone. It signified that he did like me. But then again, I made it clear that the ball was in his court. He knew exactly what I expected, and he knew that if he did want me, he had to make a move. He certainly made a wise decision!
