every love story is beautiful, but ours is my favorite

It all started in 7th grade... (: it was my birthday and it was during lunch, i walked up to Baker and asked him if he wanted a halloween cupcake because it was my birthday. hahah. I was quite the shy little girl, and to be honest i had a pretty big crush on him. It's so cute, because still to this day, he remembers that day vividly.

10th grade... I was dating his best friend for about a year, so me and bake would talk occasionally about mine his best friends relationship. I always thought baker was so cute though.. he always dressed so nice. and smelled SO good! haha i even remember being at a football game with one of my friends saying "ya know...? if i wasnt dating tuni..im pretty sure that i would be dating baker" haha weeeiird right?! its like im psychic.

11th grade... Me and tuni broke up. Long story short, not a good relationship. A girls choice dance was coming up and i had no body to ask! soo after a long brainstorming session with my mom, i decided that i was going to ask baker! me and my mom run to harmons, buy some orange balloons, a big orange poster, and some fish. the saying went.." if fishes were wishes, and you had 3, would one of them be to go to the dance with me?!" i was so nervous to ask him, but despite all the butterflies, i ran up to his porch, set everything up, rang the doorbell, and ran for my life! about 2 minutes later i get this text that says.." i hate fish!!! (; but i kinda like you, so of course ill go with you (:" hahaha he's such a dummy.

April 10th 2010...Me and baker go to girls pref "opposites attract" we went as the redsox and the yankees. (: that dance was SUCH a blast. it's crazy how fast me and him hit it off! after the dance, i took him home, and we sat in his driveway for hours and hours just talking about everything and anything. (: all i could think about was how freaking cute this boy was, and how i instantly knew that i could fall for him so fast. after i left he sent me a text that said " mand thank you so much for tonight! i had so much fun with you. and i can already tell that we are going to be so close (:"... from day one, this boy knew how to make me smile.

April-May 2010... Me and Bake started to hang out tons more! and everytime we did, we would just get closer and closer. One thing that i absolutely adored (and still do) about him, is that he NEVER failed to make me laugh. He seriously is one of the funniest people i know. I found myself opening up to him alot, and i knew that he was someone that i could trust. We grew so close, so fast. I love how we were best friends before our relationship. It has given us such a solid foundation to build on! (:

May 11th 2010... We were downstairs in my room. He was helping me pack up my room because I was moving into a new house with my mom and my siblings. I was going through all of my clothes, and he was joking around about how i "couldnt pull some of them off." hahah (idiot) so anyways, i pull out one of my shirts that has jacob black on it. and i was just rubbing it in his face how hot i thought jacob was. (he's totally team edward) so bake says.."let me see that for a sec?" so i toss him the shirt. and he straight up RIPS THE SHIRT IN HALF!!! he ruined my freaking jacob shirt! i was sooo pissed! hahah (but not really, because i just liked him so much) so here i am, trying to act all mad at him. and his over here laughing his head off. so i say " we are no longer best friends" (which causes him to freak out!) so then he flips the entire situation around saying that i was such a meanie for saying that, and our friendship should be unconditional. and that i needed to find a way to make it up to him for saying such a rude thing! (this was all him joking around of course) haha and in my head im thinking "k buddy, you're the one who just ripped my shirt in half!" buuuuttt... as we all know, this was the perfect excuse to flirt with him... and so i spend the next hour or so, asking him what i can do to "make up for the rude comment" haha and he just keeps being a tease saying that i need to figure it out myself... 11 o'clock rolls around, and its time to take him home. its freezing outside so he gives me his jacket (: im driving him home and he just keeps looking at me and smiling and giving me this cute look. we get to his house and he asks me to get out of the car and give him a hug, so of course i do (: i knew what was going to happen...well i least i knew what i HOPED was going to happen! I get out of the car, and give him this great big hug...neither of us let go for a long time (: then finally he pulls away and just stares at me with this cute grin on his face and we both just go in for a kiss!!! it was seriously so perfect (: he then let me know that a kiss is exactly what he was hoping I would come up with to make everything up to him. haha then commented on the lemon chapstick i was wearing and said it tasted really good so he stole it from me so " he could remember what our first kiss tasted like" how cute is that?

June 2010... Baker told me that he loved me <3 One day we were laying down in my room watching how to lose a guy in ten days on my bed. We were just joking around and teasing each other when all of a sudden he leans over and gives me the best kiss, then leans out and looks at me and just says " I love you Mand" (: it was so simple but so perfect.

me and bake have been dating ever since then, and i have loved all 21 months of it! i never knew it was possible to love a boy this much (: but he has shown me a whole new side of love. I have loved being able to grow with him, and be such a huge part of eachother's lives.

I.LOVE.YOU.BAKER.TOTI.PRITCHARD<3