OUR STORY
How WE met:
Romeo & I had seen each other a few times a year because
of church gatherings, but we were never officially introduced. Before I go further though, I have to give
you some background information. Romeo
was “that guy” that all the girls acted all cheeky around. He was the guy (when getting ready for our
big church fellowships) that every girl dressed to impress. There were a couple
of times in particular where he was on stage worshipping with his youth (at
church mind you) & girls were screaming his name from the top of their
lungs. All I could hear was, “GO ROMEO
WICHYO FINE SELF!” LoL! He was just
every girls dream guy: handsome, well-dressed, & crazy in love with the
Lord. And there I was rolling my eyes,
shaking my head, and COMPLETELY annoyed at how these girls were idolizing this
guy OVER Jesus! I was so explicitly in
love with the Lord I felt no other man’s name should be shouted in a crowd at
church unless it was Jesus’ name. Oh but
Romeo was LOVING it! He loved the
attention & knew he was good-looking.
Fast forward to the day we officially met (Cornerstone
Church – Fresno CA; November 9, 2002), a mutual friend and I were hanging out
after a youth service and he just so happened to walk by. She stops him, flirts with him for a little,
and I saw he was…”that guy” haha! She
then stops her flirting to introduce us, but because I realized he was “that
guy” I was not interested in talking to him.
I shook his hand, he asked me a question, but I immediately walked away
to avoid any ego enlarging for him. I
know *insert smirk emoji here*. We
didn’t see each other for another month or so after that at a Christian
single’s event at Boomer’s. After our
activity day at Boomer’s, our groups went to lunch together. At that lunch Romeo popped up at my table
& was so annoyingly rude to me the entire time! Everything I said or did, he had a joke for
and at that stage in my life, I was all too serious to take any jokes. His Sister asked for my email to keep in
touch and Romeo said, “I have a pen, I’ll write it down.” I wrote my email down (this was before
myspace & FB existed) and what do you know? He clowns on my email
name! This guys was FULL of jokes. A few days later, I got an email from him J. His Sister never ended up emailing me because
he kept the paper with my email on it.
We started writing letters to each other as well because back then
internet was on dial-up mode & if you were on the internet, the phone
couldn’t be used at the same time. Not
sure if I mentioned this, but Romeo lived in Fresno & I lived in Lynwood,
our cities were a 4 ½ hour drive away from each other, so we communicated often
through letters & emails.
In one email he said, “Your cousin Jaron wants your number
to keep in touch. He said if you could
give it to me so he can call you.” With
no hesitation I gave him my number.
Well, that was 11 years ago and my cousin STILL has not called me
LMBO! Romeo ended up calling me a few
days after I emailed him my number…smh.
This guy! After that one phone call, I was hooked.
