Matthew...

...Story Time!! I think it's pretty funny/cute/heart warming. Here goes...

So like I have said in older posts, I go to institute every Tuesday and Thursday morning and it's awesome. I usually pick up one of my friends on the way when I go but for the first day I was a lone ranger. My friend had a doctors appointment so she wasn't able to make it the first day with me. Not gonna lie, it's not easy for me to go to things by myself, but after this first day, I have been totally fine.

Anyway, I walk into class and I am about 2 minutes late and the class had already started singing the hymn. I kinda panicked because as I looked around I saw no empty chairs. So I kind of stood there for a minute looking around, then I spotted a seat, right in the middle, by this boy. Now he isn't just a boy, he is "special" (if you know what I mean). Straight to the Celestial. I decided to go ahead and have a seat by him. This was probably the best decision I could have made in a long while. As the hymn went on, this boy was singing to the Heavens, I'm convinced. He was singing so loud and enunciating every letter in every word. It was the best. I had a grin from ear to ear while singing the hymn. I didn't want it to end!

As the hymn ended and we had our prayer and stuff, our teacher told us we had to go around to as many people as possible, introduce ourselves, and state one interesting fact about us. (Standard first day procedures) So, I stood up, along with everyone in the class, and began to introduce myself to people. There were a couple minutes where everyone around me was talking to someone and I was just kind of loitering, looking around. I then turned to the boy next to me and I asked him with my arm outstretched "what's your name?" and he turned to me and said "my name is Matthew". He then shook my hand, well not only did he shake it, he squoze the life out of it haha. One of the most firm handshakes I have ever gotten. After he shook my hand he said "there's nothing interesting about me" and I told him "that's ok, I'm not very interesting either", then he smiled at me and we all sat down and enjoyed the rest of class.

From then on, I have made it a goal to say hi to Matthew everyday in class. He loves it. He sometimes sits by me and turns to me and says "You're Becca, the cutie girl" and I just laugh and thank him. What a cutie huh? As classes have gone by I've noticed Matthew writing all during class, what looked to be notes. Lo and behold I was right because the other day he came up to me and gave me one and he also gave me a huge hug while saying "I'm so proud of you" and just yesterday he gave me another note with a hug saying "It's so good to see you". Haha, it really does make my day. What a special kid huh? I will write you what the notes say. I wish you could see his handwriting, its so cute.

The first note he gave me says: :) Yo hey Becca How are you? Oh becca why did the hamburger go to the gym? It wanted better buns. What do you call a cow with a twitch? Beef jerky. Im so proud of you. Silly Becca, the cutie girl!

The second note says: Yo hey Becca How are you? Oh becca, what do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef. I'm so proud of you, silly Becca the cutie girl!

Hahaha I read these and I really did laugh at the jokes. They are clever. He is the best. I'm glad I got to meet this special person :) hope you enjoyed my little story haha.

-borris