The Story of Tom and Katie: Part I

Okay i can't even remember the last time i posted on here. But i'm sure no on really cares except for my mom haha. But this is for her!

A little over a year ago my friend Cassie, from Noteworthy, told me that her brothers band NICO needed some backup singers. She asked if i would go with her to sing and it sounded like fun so i did. When we got to her brothers house i met everyone in the band, including this cute keyboard player. He told me his name was Tom and then we started talking. He mentioned something about his misssion and i asked where he'd gone. He told me he went to Sydney, Australia. One of my best friends, Michael, was there at the time and i asked if he knew him and he did! 

That was about the only conversation we had for the next year. I sang a few times with NICO but never really stayed long after singing so we never talked other than that one time. He tells me he wanted to ask me out but thought I had a boyfriend. I say he should've asked me out anyway.....But that never happened so we both went on with life. 

I stopped singing with them and went home for a semester because i was planning on serving a mission. I got my call and never felt quite right about it so i ended up staying home and coming back to BYU. Last October Cassie called me and told me she had been asked again to find someone to sing backups with her in a Country band, so I said sure!

I think it was the very next day that we were supposed to go to band practice with a bunch of songs memorized so we learned the backups real quick and then went over to the guy's house who'd asked us to help out....turns out that guy was Tom (he was playing keys in this band as well). We went to his house and practiced a little then went to the rehearsal. For some reason Cassie had me sit Shotgun even though Tom and I didn't really know eachother (I think this whole thing was her plan all along). So we started talking about music and things and I started wondering why we'd never talked last year. We got to band practice and it was great...then i sat shotgun on the way home again and we joked about how cheesy country music was while we listened to Beyonce to get the songs out of our heads.

When i got to Noteworthy rehearsal the next day Cassie says "So...how would you feel if Tom asked you on a date?".......I tried not to sound too excited and said "I'd feel great about that!".....So i figured the next rehearsal he'd probably ask for my number and all that....

BUT turns out the Band couldn't afford to have two backup singers and since Cassie had been asked first they asked Tom to fire me. So I never went to a second rehersal. LUCKILY i had added Tom on facebook. He thought of a way to get my number and messaged me telling me that even though I couldn't be in the country band he had another band that was performing on Halloween and asked if i would want to sing with them. I said yes and then he said "Great can i get your number so i can let you know when practice is?" (you sneaky Tom).

So i went to a rehearsal and sang with them a little, but ended up being REALLY sick on Halloween and couldn't perform with them. But he already had what he needed (my number), so he called me up and asked me on a date for the next week. We went to his house and made tacos and sat by the fire and just talked and talked and talked. It all pretty much went downhill from there.

I went home for Thanksgiving, but after that we saw eachother every day. I didn't have a ride home for Christmas so he offered to add 7 hours onto his drive and take me home. The drive home was great even though we almost ran out of gas. It's funny how the 10 hour drive didn't seem long enough when usually i'm dying by the end of it. But we go to Sacramento and He met my family and we took a trip to San Fransisco.

I was in love. My family Loved him. Life was great....but Christmas Break was pretty much unbearable and we talked to each other every night for hours on the phone (which is saying a lot considering i HATE talking on the phone). The 3 weeks seemed like WAY too long and there were multiple times when i almost changed my flight to an earlier one. But 3 weeks passed by and it was time to go back to Provo.

Sadly i have to go to an ASL movie now so i can't finish this post...but part II will be here later. :)

Holy cow this is a long post...I'm sorry!