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Since this blog is all about my love story with Huy, it’s only right that I start from the very beginning!
Huy and I both went to the University of Maine at Farmington for undergrad (go Beavers!!). I met Huy during the orientation week because I wanted to make friends with the international students at UMF. I had already met a girl from France named Julie who was living in my dorm, and I can’t remember for sure but I think she might have invited me to come hang out with the whole group (around 8 students and TAs from France, Mexico, and one from Vietnam).
When I got there they were playing a game outside, it’s called Zapo Nika or something like that. The name of the game isn’t important. I just remember coming there and seeing him. He was wearing tight pants (lol), a teeshirt, cool brown shoes, and his hair was styled. I was like oooohhhh who is that?!?!?! hahaha but at the time I actually had a boyfriend from high school who also was studying at UMF so while I did admire his cuteness, that was all that happened. This was in the first week of September 2010.
My birthday was on September 18th and that was also around the time I became Facebook friends with Huy. On my birthday he wrote on my wall, chúc mừng sinh nhật Audrey. That was the very first time I had ever seen the Vietnamese language. I thought it was so cool! But again, at this time we were still just friends, and we didn’t even really know each other much yet.
I think around September 22nd my boyfriend of almost 2 years told me that he didn’t love me anymore. I later found out he was having a thing with a girl who also lives in my dorm. I was furious, hurt, broken, and an all-around mess. At that time I also found out that my Pepere (grandfather) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and only had months to live, and that my biological mom was drinking again. With all this going on and it being my first semester in college, you can understand how horrible I was feeling. While I kept up with school, my grades at the end of the semester were lower than I wanted (all Bs, no As!). It was a really emotional time for me.
I spent about a month being heartbroken, confused, and just feeling betrayed. I had a hard time going to sleep and cried myself to sleep most nights. I just couldn’t believe that my boyfriend of almost 2 years who said he wanted to marry me could just suddenly end things and tell me that he “didn’t love me for a few months but didn’t want to tell me”. Seriously?! Who does that!
The end of October is when I started to get out of this depression and move on. But even at that point I knew that I was DONE with guys, at least for a while. I couldn’t stand to go through another breakup anytime soon so my way of protecting myself from that pain was to just focus on school and not on boys.
Then, on October 27th, Huy invited me to come to the movies with the international gang to watch Paranormal Activity 2. I was still feeling pretty down and didn’t really want to go but I figured it would be a good way to get out and get my mind off things, so I said I’d go. Around dinner time, I heard that Huy decided he wasn’t going anymore because his roommate told him the movie is lame. But that’s when something so weird happened. I had this feeling in my gut that Huy had to come to the movies. I ended up texting him and telling him that since he “invited” me that he needed to come! How could be abandon me?!
Apparently I was persuasive enough because he ended up coming with us to the movie. We ended up sitting together in the theater and chit-chatting during the movie. Yes, his roommate was right, it was a very lame movie. There were some parts that made me jump but it wasn’t as scary as Paranormal Activity 1 which I watched in high school with 1 eye and only half the screen.
At one point we were talking and I looked at him and he was looking at me. Our eyes locked and I felt this spark within me. It was like I couldn’t breathe for a second and time had frozen. This sounds so cheesy but I swear, it’s true! After maybe 2-3 seconds I quickly looked away and I could feel my cheeks getting hot.
After the movie was finished we all walked back to campus. Huy was living in the dorm closest to the movie theater so we said bye to him and the rest of us when to our building. I was getting ready for bed in the bathroom and Julie was with me in the bathroom.
“Audrey, you and Huy were so cute together tonight!”
“What?! No….” But in my head I was saying, “I know!!!”
After that night, we started to talk online all the time. We would be chatting on Facebook and then when we were in class, we would be texting each other with our phones. And when we went to eat meals in the dining hall, we started to always sit together. We were becoming so close, even though neither of us had said anything about liking each other. But I could feel it. I liked him so much, and even though we were not together or anything, he was making me happier than I had been in a really long time.
One night we were talking on chat, and I was so tired. It was after midnight and I was about to go to bed, and then he said, “Audrey, I think I like you”. I was wide awake at that moment! I paused for a moment and then said, “That’s good, because I know I like you”.
We had finally admitted it! We were inseparable! Wherever he went, I went and vice-versa. I would go to his dorm to hang out often, and one night, he kissed me! ❤️ This was on November 21, 2010. After the kiss I asked him, “does that mean I’m your girlfriend?”
“Do you want to be my girlfriend?”, he asked.
You all know what my answer was. ❤️
For more details about the story watch the video where Huy and I tell it together: How We Met! How We Met! Story of Our First Meeting and Early Dating! | Chung mình quen nhau như thế nào ❤️