In The Beginning There Were Four

*This is part 3 in the "How We Met" section

I left off with having just received John's number and sending him a friendly "good luck" text as suggested by his wife who said he gets  bored on business trips. So I sent the text and went back to studying. He replied (which was expected) and I thought that was that. 

Well, it wasn't. That wasn't just that. We kept sending texts back and forth. I was amused. I thought, "This guy must be bored to tears to be talking to me this much." But it was entertaining and helped break up my day filled of studying. It was just harmless conversation. We talked about anything. How his meetings went. How he hated the people he had to travel with. Where he'd eat for lunch or dinner. Movies. Ah, movies. That was (and still is) his passion. He collects them. DVDs galore. One day he had wandered into a used DVD shop and found a few movies that he was telling me about. He was about to sit down in his hotel room and watch one. Rubber. If anyone has heard of this movie they know how ridiculous the description is. It's a movie about a tire (yes, a tire, like the ones that are on your car). I thought it sounded hilarious and proceeded to search for the movie on Netflix. I found it! We watched our first movie together via text message and Netflix. Ah the power of technology!

So as his business trip came to an end I thought so to must our "friendship" or whatever it was we had developed through cell phone, pixels, and data. I thought for certain that once he returned home to his family (wife and two kids) we would no longer text or talk or anything unless us four were hanging out. I didn't think anything of it and just assumed that he had been bored and we had kept each other company for that short period of time. 

Well, he didn't stop texting me. I don't even remember all of the things we talked about, but we'd talk about EVERYTHING. Feelings started cropping up into the messages. Just little things (he was VERY shy) to see if I felt anything like he was hinting at. We wanted to spend more and more time together. We set up another time for all four of us to hang out. And shortly after that, yet another night to hang out and stay over at their place (they lived about 45 mins away). I'll never forget the day when the four of us became only two.