That's right ... who doesn't fall in love over the NFL and beautiful moonlit nights on a mountain? Well ... when you both have 3 roommates each in a 2 bedroom apartment ... you have to find what works. The Lazy Dog or the boys' apartment provided for the football games and Mike fortunately had his Ford Explorer so we were able to get away from the group for many a drives up Chautaugua to stare at the stary night above Boulder.
Truthfully we started off as friends ... afteral we had our very own episode of Friends going on. 4 girls and 4 boys ... only an apartment apart. And oddly enough ... 5 of the 8 went to High School together. Mike had lived with Danny in Will Vill and needed a place to lay his head for only a semester so he stayed with Danny, Kyle and Alex (school mates of Danielle and Sarah). And Danielle lived with another current member of Express, Kim, soon to be member of Express, Katy and former Liberty Belles teammate Sarah. The boys watched out for the girls, had the big comfy leather couch, HUGE tv and fooseball table. The girls ... had food.
We realized that we rather enjoyed each other ... spending nights talking into the wee hours ... going to dinner to hang out. Whatever ... then when he got rid of his yellow hair ... Danielle realized he was cute. Hahahhahaha!!!
Something happened ... we went from friends to dating in a short amount of time. And dating is all it was ... for about 2 weeks. We both just wanted to be relaxed in our dating so in fact ... Mike was dating another girl named Deanna. She was a cheerleader from SoCal. But as I said before ... dating didn't last long. One fateful night ... Danielle sat Mike down to express that she wanted to date only him. Telling him he had time to think about it ... she respectfully asked that he not call or that they not go out until he decides. That was at about 2am. Later that afternoon, Mike called Danielle. Assuming she didn't make herself clear she asked if he had remembered their conversation? Yes. And had he thought about what he wanted? Yes. And had he talked to Deanna to tell her that couldn't see each other anymore? Yes. Hmmm ... so does that mean that you want to only date me? Yes. WOW ... guess we didn't have He's Just Not That Into You to tell us that we didn't do it the correct way.
That Christmas ... Danielle travelled to California and was introduced into Mike's world. Family, extended family and friends. Literally. A little overwhelming but with full and loving embraces.
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