At Institute that night I had to explain my text to Steven, and he was still willing to come. :) Hurrah! And, I finally remembered to bring his grill back. I really love going to Institute with Steven. It was always a time when I got to see his strength in the gospel.
Wednesday was much the same as Tuesday. Got up, went to work, thought about Steven, eventually got off work, came home, and freshened up to go see Steven. :) Except Steven was coming to Aiken, instead of me going to North Augusta or Augusta. He got a little turned around in downtown, and after I'd dropped of Kylie, Chet, and Savannah at the church I went to go find him. He found his way out before I found him, so I met up with him next to the Little Caesar's we'd stopped at before the Big Mo. I felt so happy to see Steven! And the first thing he said when he saw me was something in Spanish, which he immediately repeated in English: "You are more and more beautiful every day." Ah, I love him!!
We made our way to the church, went inside, and found the YM/YW without any trouble. Introduced Paul and Steven, and joined in the games. We started off playing a game called Headbands. It is what it sounds like: you put a card in a headband without looking at it, and then you have to ask Yes/No kinds of questions until you guess the card on your forehead. I like these kinds of games. :) Next we switched to a table playing Boggle. Also a fun game. Turns out, though, that while I do enjoy playing these games, I kind of stink at them. Hehe. And while we were playing Boggle I grabbed a chocolate cupcake, with the intent to 'accidentally' smear some frosting on my lip to see if I could convince Steven to kiss it off. Yeah, I didn't get any frosting on my lip. I just scooped the frosting off the cupcake onto my finger and sucked it off. Didn't work at all. Steven just kind of looked at me oddly and said "Oooookay??" Oops. hehe :3
After mutual was over, I went to drive the Esselmans home, and we got caught up in the line for Chick-fil-A's defense of marriage day. The line took forever, but we stuck around and got some sandwiches and shakes, and after running the Esselmans home I didn't take Chet and Savannah all the way home, because I'd left Steven with Paul Smith to get some ukelele instruction. So I hurried back, Paul left, and Chet practiced driving the Prius in the parking lot, Savannah riding in the passenger seat, leaving Steven and I sitting and enjoying our sandwiches on the steps. We shared the strawberry shake (it's both our preferred flavor, as it turns out) and watched Chet driving in circles. We had to help him a few times... "Hey Elise! Which one's the brake??" Heh, fun times.
Once our sandwiches were finished, it was really late. We'd mentioned that Kylie's birthday tomorrow, but Steven had planned to be spending time with Kevin on Thursday, so I wouldn't see him until at least Saturday, but probably Sunday. (Saturday there was a group going to the temple to do baptisms that Steven would be joining, and he invited me to come along, but I had a friend coming up from Savannah on Friday and I wasn't sure I'd make it in time.) So, for the first time in almost a whole week, I wouldn't see Steven. It was a really weird feeling, because I'd grown so attached. Time had sort of warped... we'd only known each other for a couple weeks but I felt I'd known him much, much, much longer than that.
So, Thursday I carpooled with Paul Smith to work again, and on the way he mentioned something about marrying a doctor, and I didn't think about it, I just responded that I didn't think Steven wanted to be a doctor. Paul just laughed and told me that Steven had been pretty straight-forward about it, too. I felt all warm and fluttery inside. It's a good feeling. An even better feeling was when Steven started texting me at the end of the day, and he was going to be coming to Kylie's birthday dinner after all. YAY!! Hehe :3 So when I got home, Kylie and I went grocery shopping to pick up ingredients, rushed home, I hopped into the shower, and when I got out, Steven was there. He was talking with the family and helping to get dinner started. I hugged him from behind to get his attention. :) So happy! And, he'd brought me the most gorgeous bouquet of flowers; it had the colors of a vibrant sunset. Awwww!!
So, Steven helped cook the hamburgers while I cooked up the bacon and beans. We got everything together, everyone gathered around the table, and we had dinner. Everything was delicious!
After dinner Grandma and Grandpa Taylor stopped by for birthday cake. Grandpa talked to Steven while I helped the others finish clearing away dinner, and afterwards I came over and slid myself under Steven's arm with both of my arms around him. Grandpa looked at us for a minute and noted that we looked pretty serious, and after another pause he added that he was excited for us. Steven and I agreed that we were both pretty excited, too. ^-^ By this point we had become an official item, updated it on Facebook and everything. I don't remember when exactly that happened, but it did... :)
After Grandma and Grandpa had gone and the dessert and dishes were cleared away, Steven and I stepped outside for a minute. Steven mentioned that his dad had told him not to mess this up, and I just had to laugh a little bit, because if Steven was the person that I understood him to be, there wasn't anything he'd do that could mess it up. We also talked about schools, and grades, and future goals... eventually I temporarily banished Steven so that he could leave. We're pretty goofy that way. :3
To be continued :)
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