Part 3: I'd Found the PERFECT guy!

Friday November 13th I'm at a friends house telling her about the conversation with my guy friend and i receive a text from some random number, "Is this Laura?"

Me: "um... yeah. who is this?"

random number texter: "this is 'C'. ---- gave me your number and i'm going to call you but i'm busy tonight. k? "

.... before i would reply to him

C: "is that okay?"

Me: "Yeah thats fine"

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what the heck?! i know NOTHING about this guy and hes just gonna leave me hanging like that! hmmm... i call one of my bffs (she knows everyone and can usually find out anything). our mission: to find out as much about this guy as possible!

good news: there was nothing on his record.

bad news: NO ONE knows him!!! people knew of him... even people who went to school with him and graduated with him didnt know him! ONE girl i know who graduated with him said she didnt know him that well but he was really cute, really country and drove a NICE truck!

ok, these things are good... but how come no one knows him? maybe hes weird? hmm

another friend advised me that maybe this was a good thing... maybe he worked all the time and really didnt have time to know everyone... at least i knew he wasnt a party guy or everyone would know who he was. she told me this way i could form my own opinion of him without anyone else contributing.

sounds good to me! thats kinda scary though because i know NOTHING about the guy...

The next night a different random number called me. Then 'C' text me and said he tried to call. I told him i was at a sunday school class party watching the football game (Bama, of course!). He said he was glad to see i go church. We continued to text each other for a little bit longer (Hes an Alabama Fan!) then he said he would call me after the game.

After the game i go to a friends house 'C' kept puttin off calling me but he had no problem texting A LOT! I found out a lot about him... Hes a supervisor where he works, hes been there for 3 years. He has 3 trucks - all ford. He loves to do anything a Country Boy loves to do! We text for hours that night... past midnight... but still i didnt hear his voice.

The next morning i had a "good morning" text from him. I get up and get ready for church. After church we were texting and he called me! I answered and he said he decided to just call me since we were texting so much. His voice... VERY COUNTRY!!! So country that sometimes i couldnt understand him. We talked a lot.. it was crazy. hes definitely a talker! he told me that he got out of a long relationship about a month ago and just wanted a good girl. i made it clear that i wasnt lookin for a boyfriend but we could be friends.

During the week he called me at 5:45am as he was driving to work. He'd call and text me all day long! It was sweet but it was kind of annoying but i just ignored that thought! Wed he sent me a message and said i cant wait to meet you... i cant stop thinking about you.. when can we meet. I told him i was about to go to walmart and he could meet me there if he wanted. (i went to walmart lookin all pretty) i didnt hear from him anymore so i was a little disappointed. I walk to my car and i get a call from him... he said he was off work and he couldnt stop at walmart, but if i did where would i be parked.... THEN i saw a truck driving around with his work company name on the side and the guy driving was on the cell phone.

He parked in front of my car. We stood in the walmart parking lot and talked for over an hour. He was...cute. Not like any guy i've ever been interested in... but for some reason i was interested. The second i left the parkin lot he called me.

We continued talking a lot and on the weekends he'd pick me up for dates. My parents went camping an hour away... he drove with me one night to them for dinner and so they could meet. My parents really liked him and he really liked them. Which was a first! We started 'officially' dating a few days before thanksgiving. yes that was kinda fast but we were both on cloud 9. i couldnt find anything about him that i didnt like!

I wasnt allowed to ever pay for anything. If i tried to he got mad and told me i'd just have to get use to having a good guy who wanted to spend money on me. He bought me 2 new pair of jeans from american eagle. We went huntin together, rode 4wheelers, watched movies, went out to eat, he even took me to a chris daughtry concert! He went with me to meet my grandparents and aunt and cousins in their town an hour from here.

we had hardly known each other for a month and he said he was in love with me. one day we were talking about people who get married after not knowing each other for a year and we knew then that when you know, you just know!

i was so happy with him. i had felt those feelings in a long time. i know he was good for me... i mean he meet everything on the checklist! His "pros" list was WAY longer than his "cons" list. everything was perfect... or so it seemed... but something just wasnt right.

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of course by this time Rusty had found out about everything. he did anything he could to break us up. he told me we were soul mates and i wasnt supposed to be with him that he wouldnt treat me right. he sent me txts & emails 24/7 telling me how i was making a mistake, that we were supposed to be together forever... etc... i ignored most of them... i had too.. i felt so bad. once i started ignoring him... he got angry... his texts and voicemessages and emails were MEAN and hurtful... he said things i never thought i would hear him say to me... i mean we were together 2 and a half years!

i felt so bad. i was happy and he was hurt.

but i wasnt 100% happy.

i cried myself to sleep every.single.night!

i knew this was what was best for me.

i knew i wasnt supposed to be with Rusty, GOD had showed me EVERYTHING.

GOD is NEVER wrong.

i just needed to be patient!

but i still cried. i felt so bad because that wasnt fair to Country (what i began calling 'C' around my friends)

no matter how much fun country and i had... but the time i was at the end of his driveway i was thinkin about Rusty and before i made it home (30mins away) i was crying.

but i had no reason to leave Country because he was nothing but GOOD to me! He was good for me and i was just being stupid.