The thing about us.

James Lee; I might as well start off from the beginning. On March 13, 2009 I'd say I met what I would call, "Something Real". I remember it being Kara's birthday, she fussed & played the "It's my birthday & I can cry if I want to" roll & would not come out of her house, for she was fighting with Brian. So after waiting at Starbucks for so long, I indeed decided to leave. Even though Andy kept insisting that we all stayed because someone name "JAMES" just came back from the Army and they were suppose to meet up. I, thought to myself, "Don't know him, not worth my time, going home, NOW." So about 5 minutes away from home, Andy called me and begged me to go to NRB with them & just show up to convince James, Alex, Peter, Tim & Alex Jung to come with us. After a minute or two of thinking, I finally agreed. Andy picked me up & we both headed back to Galleria. After about another 30 minutes of waiting for "James&Co.", they flaked on us. So we (Jun, Isaac, Andy, Paul & I) decided to GO OVER TO WHERE THEY WERE AND CONVINCE THEM. They were behind Galleria, and at first I stayed in the car because, I didn't know James & thought he was going to be a total dick just by looking at him. After about 15 minutes of waiting in the car & watching Andy, Jun, & Isaac fail at trying to convince them, I decided to go outside to give it a shot. I walked up to the circle, hearing James say " Naah foo, why don't we just drink here? Fuck Norraebang." So I walk up to him and stupidly ask "Are you James Lee?" (as if I didn't already know.) He replies with "Yeahh (confused look as if he's never seen a girl before.)" I reply by saying "Hi, I'm Jareena (Shakes his hand) but anyways, we've been waiting for you for the past two hours." James, " Nooo, you guys weren't waiting for ME though, you were waiting for Karalyn." Me, "NO. Karalyn never agreed to come out for her birthday, so plans switched up and you said you'd meet up with THEM (pointing to Andy, Isaac, Paul & Jun) at 9:50pm. It's 11:23pm. Just go to NRB." I thought to myself, that if he was anybody else, I'd waste no time trying to convince him to go. BUT, no. He was the infamous James Lee. The James Lee everyone in the valley miraculously knew. Oh, and boy did he catch my eye. He then replied, "You guys go (looking at Andy, Isaac, Paul & Jun) We'll (being Tim, Alex Jung, Alex Lee, & Peter) stay here and shit." I knew I had to persuade him to go. I WANTED HIM TO GO. So I replied, "Why don't you just come with us? I mean, come on .. Andy's been bitching about how he wants to see you for the past 2 hours." Finally giving in, he replied " Fine, I'll go but you have to convince THEM to go." Score! Easily, I got them all to agree to go. So we all met up at NRB. Karalyn & Brian also met us up there. We drank in the parking lot, & snuck the rest of the alcohol into the karaoke place. They all suprised Karalyn with a cake. Somehow, James ended up sitting next to me. Us both being a tad bit drunk, I decided to tinker with him a bit. I cut Karalyn's cake & shove some into his mouth. Not making it noticeable for everyone to see that I'm quote&quote "flirting" with him, I shove it into other peoples mouths too. Then I thought to myself, "If I'm capable of feeding him, I say I'll spice things up a bit." I took a chunk of cake & aimed for his face. After getting his whole face caked, him washing his face & all, we went to pay for NRB. Sitting outside, smoking & finguring what to do next, I remember Jun was to take James & Tim home. So when I heard Andy complaining about wanting to try to sneak into Hard 13, I came to this conclusion. Jun was to take me home too, so if I wanted to spend more time with James, I needed to somehow lure everyone to do something so then James would be forced (well nt really forced but yeah) to go too. So, I pressured into making Hard 13 a plan. I convinced everyone to go to Hard13. In Jun's car, James sits next to me. Smart move, I tinkered with him some more on the way to pick up Suzi & head to Hard13. Got him to memorize my lastname .. & first name, that way, he wouldn't forget my name the next morning. When we arrived to LA, we got free parking inside the USC parking lot. Everyone besides Tim (he slept in the car), headed out to sneak into Hard. Walking laps around the spot, trying to find ways to get in, James would walk next to me. After failed attempts of getting in & all, we all decided to go home. I then was stampeded on by rave promoters. Flyers handed to me in every direction, I gathered all of them and shoved it into James' jacket pocket. After getting into the car, everyone wanted to call it a night .. everyone except well .. me. Well I thought it was only me who didn't want to go home until James tried making up every reasonable excuse to stay out too. But, I didn't want to flatter myself by thinking its because of me. So eventually, everyone got dropped off at home. I thought that would be the end of a beautiful meeting until ..

The following day, I proceeded to go on facebook, an attempt to find "James Lee" & finally finding him I played bimbo blonde messaging him to see if it was clearly the "James" I met the night before. After a response saying it was indeed him, I added him. We talked for a while on FB until he had to go and dropped what would spark this little thing we had just a bit more.. his number. Stating to call him with any plans or if people were going to be doing stuff that day. This day, I remember there was going to be some hyped out highschool party or whatever. Teresa&I had planned to go. So in the afternoon, I made an attempt to text my dear James. Making it simple, I asked him what he was doing (not stating a name so it would have him guessing). My genius mind was right, he asked me who it was & he asked what I was doing tonight. I told him that Andy too might be going to the party, he told me he might not go (which sort of bummed me out quite a bit). I then busted a mission with Teresa to Orange County, 40 minutes before we had plan to leave the house for the party. So about an hour later I got a text from Prince Charming asking where I was at. I then asked him where HE was at & he responded by saying he was at that one party. T&I finally arrived & I was eager to see him. We met up with all the guys, imcluding James & DRANK. I'll say that I got pretty damn drunk. After the party got raided at around 12am, James&I hopped into Brian's car. We ended up doing nothing for about an hour and decided to go home. James asked me to stay and keep him company because he was too drunk to go home. So after about 20 minutes of disagreeing, I finally gave in. We got dropped off at his house & sat in his car for about 2 hours until he sobered up & drove me home.

That night then lead to seeing eachother everday after that. We knew that our time was limited and although we both tried hard not to fall into anything because he was leaving back to the army, things did happen. We caught feelings for eachother & we were no longer able to deny our true emotions. The next night, I didn't get to see him, but suprised, I got a phone call from him & we talked for 4 hours. Everyday we somehow found ways to see eachother. And everyday, I cherished every second of it. I convinced him to go to HSII (HOW SWEET IT IS; a rave) on Saturday with everyone & I must say.. we had such a great time! Then on Monday, two days before he had to leave to S.Korea, he took a little longer to pick me up .. starting to get a tad bit frustrated I kept calling him and patiently asked him how much longer until he gets to my house. Normally it takes him 20 minutes, today it took him over an hour. He finally arrived, I was already outside, and just as I openned the door and was about to put on my angry face, I saw a dozen pink rose. AWWWWWW! Right? Right. We then went to go watch a movie (I Love You, Man) & met up with Kara&Brian after to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. We continued to make the best of the last two days. We didn't bring up him leaving because at that moment, we didn't know what we'd do or become of after he left.

Tuesday finally strolled along, last day in California for him. He had a kickback at his house, I met his parents & so on. Later on that night, people came over to drink & such, and after everyone left, I stayed. We took a 2 hour nap & then it was time for him to drop me off. I said nothing the whole way home, millions of things rushing to my mind. Things like "Is this it? Will we be anything? Will he mention us even being anything after this? Hope for the best, expect the worst. I don't want him to go. No No No." We finally reached my house. He parked, nobody got out of the car, nobody said anything. We just looked at eachother. I felt my eyes getting watery and I tried my best to hold it in. Up until he spoke. He told me he didn't want this to end, what we had. He asked if I would wait, that he'll do anything in his power to try to make us work. He hugged me as I cried, knowing it was a short yet most memorable 2 weeks of my life. I knew it would be tremendously hard yet I knew that if I let him walk away right now, I would never know what we could've been. I took it, I agreed to stay faithful and try for the sake of us. Our goodbye lasted over an hour. He walked me to my door & I knew it would only get harder the longer he stayed so I told him to make it short and that I'll see him soon .. (Not knowing when). We kissed eachother and said our farewells. Then I closed my door behind me, went to the window and watch him walk to his car, start it & drive away. I went to my room & sobbed myself to sleep. I didn't call him that night because we both knew he had to be up in 4 hours and be at the airport in 5 (hours). About an hour after he left my house, in and out of sleep, I heard my text tone ring. I read it, it was a text from him telling me that he's going to miss my alot & he stated

"Ima always be thinking about you,
wherever I am in this world."

which made me cry even more. He kept his word, he called me before his flight took off & called me the second he landed in S.Korea. He then proceed to call me everyday after that. He always found ways to contact me. He then bought a cellphone to talk to me, a laptop to webcam with me & he spends every minute off his off duty, talking to me.

In the beginning, everyone was against us, even our own friends. They said we wouldn't make it this far, that he wasn't the type to fall into something serious, that it would only wind up to be a fling, or a hookup. I'm glad to say that we've proven everyone wrong & I'm more than glad to say that we're still together .. & happier than ever. Well, besides the fact that we're 5000+ miles away from eachother, our love has never been better. When I look back a month ago until this very second, I wouldn't have had it any differently. I believe this is only the start of something so beautiful & true. If you ask me where I see myself in the future, I'd have to say that I see every part of my future with you .. & only you.

SEE YOU SOON BABY.