everything we do
In August we are traveling to Dublin, Ireland to Caroline & Gavin’s wedding. After spending four days there, we are heading by ferry to the U.K. for five days. We are putting together a traveling website with our itinerary and pictures. Please visit it to follow us on our adventure this summer!
I decided to be with Lucas, and follow my heart, but I really wanted to take it slow. I had been in a relationship for over five years, and I wanted to date, go through the getting to know each other and have fun.
The day after I broke it off with the other guy, I was nervous. I didn’t know if Lucas actually wanted to date me. I woke up at 4am sick to my stomach with fear that I had ruined everything.
I came to work, and told him the news. He was happy about it, so it rested my mind a little. I also said I wanted to finally watch “King of Kong” with him and his projector at his home. He had asked me to go the week before when I was still in the relationship and I wanted to go but couldn’t. We set that date at lunch, at Mas’ Islamic of course, as he was asking me to come to China with him this summer. So off with the slow start!
After work we went to his house, and had dinner at a nice Italian restaurant in Fullerton by candlelight. Then, I spent the night so we could go to the Griffith Observatory the next day. We went to the Observatory and had so much fun. We hiked up a huge hill and watched the scenery of the city, and learned about space all day. I kept getting messages from my mom and friends who were worried sick ab0ut me though. I didn’t want to even go into what was happening because no one would understand, and that is why the story played out the way it does.
That night I finally called my Mom after hundreds of crying messages. She proceeded to yell at me and say I couldn’t see Lucas anymore “The other man” and she wanted me back home and back with Cameron. I, being my stubborn self, yelled back, hung up and worried about what I was going to do. We talked about our options, and the only way to stay together was for me to live there. We had only dated for ONE DAY but I was going to sneak out of my house and live with him. We both knew that there was something different there, and we had to stay together.
I also kept getting calls from Cameron. He was also crying, and going around to all the things we used to do and crying over them and taking pictures and sending them to me. Along with that was all of my friends freaking out calling me to see if I was alive. It was a crazy jump, and no one was even aware I liked another guy, or that I was thinking of leaving Cameron.
That Saturday night I took him down to Norco, where my Mom and Dad were sleeping at 1am to sneak out and move to Anaheim with him. I dropped him off a block from my house to walk around the stinky streets of the horse town, as my heart beat out of my chest with fear. I crept inside the house, and my Dad was on the computer, turned away, and my Mom fell asleep on the couch right next to the door! I shoved things inside trash bags as quickly and quietly as I could. It took an hour to throw everything I had to have in bags and place them outside the door. The very last bag woke her up a bit, and I ran and through everything in my car and sped down the street. I tried calling Lucas, but he didn’t answer. I didn’t know if he got hit by a car, or if he called his friend Jason to pick him up from this crazy girl’s life.
I frantically called, and finally reached him after about ten tries. He was a mile down the street in the pitch dark. We drove home, and started the Roboto family.
We met at Econolite during the holidays. He was wearing his “Living the Brand” visor, and his jacket with pins that said “I love ASC/3″ and other such embarrassing phrases that obviously led me to want to talk to him. But little did he know, that I had been watching him for a couple months before, and thought he was cute, but never had the chance to talk to him.
We were eating ice cream at the November birthday’s celebration, and he suddenly turned to me asking me “What did you do for Thanksgiving?”. I said I went to Las Vegas to get away from my family. He said he went to San Francisco to see old friends. He went on to ask me the hard hitting questions right off the bat like what I did at Econolite and what I was doing with my life. I asked him what an Engineer did. Of course he explained with such detail.
He told me to come to Engineering anytime and I could check out what they did, but I never came, and we didn’t talk for a while. I really wanted him to talk to me again, so I reinstated my Facebook account, put the picture I knew he would like, and waited to hear from him. Sure enough he found it and talked to me. This led to us finally talking again, and then I asked him to lunch that day because everyone was gone to the sales meeting. We went out and had a great time, and went to lunch every day after that week. I couldn’t stop thinking about him after that, even though I had a boyfriend of five years. So I told myself I had to stop seeing him (but I really didn’t want to). He intruiged me, and I was attracted to him. Drama insued and I finally had to make decisions. I went to the sales meeting, got extremely drunk, and came back to work hung over. We went to lunch that day, and he took care of me, and the day ended with me giving him a letter of secret admiration. He wrote back on our elementary style flirtation that was going on, and I came home telling Cameron that I was hanging out with Lucas, and I wanted to leave him.
He gave me a big story of how he wanted to marry me, and be with me forever. I tried as hard as I could, and talked to myself into wanting to be with him, and I told myself I was going to tell Lucas I couldn’t talk to him. Of course that didn’t change anything. The next day I wrote a letter to Lucas to stop talking to me, and that “I don’t think we should see each other any more”. He wrote back saying “You don’t think we should see each other? Does that mean we can still see each other?”.
Days went on, and I tried not to speak to him, I told the girls at work, and some of my friends of the guy who wouldn’t leave me alone. The stalker. I tried to avoid thinking of him as much as I could, which lead to me to hanging out with him every day. Exactly one week later, I made up my mind. I had to break it off with Cameron and follow my heart to Lucas. I hung out in his office for an hour as my phone desperately rang, and I called back almost at 6 o’clock telling Cameron where I had been and that we were over.
This was the start of Lucas & Rachel….