all of your stories are so cute! Here's mine.. we met when we were 13, (in 2006), we started talking because he went to junior high with my best friend, we both thought each other was really hot (at 13 that's all anyone cares about lol) and we dated for a few months, broke up, and then started dating again the summer before grade9, we were going to different high school so we broke up because it would be hard not seeing each other as much, we still talked all the time, and were very flirty together, in grade 10 I started dating someone 2 yrs older and we had a toxic relationship so every time we broke up I would go crying to my bf from grade 8, every time he would say just be with me I've always liked you, but I never listened, we kept being friends and seeing each other every so often, but it got harder because we both had feelings for each other, but felt like we couldn't be together. When I was 17 I broke up with my boyfriend at the time of 2 yrs, and when I was 18 I started dating a new guy, at this time I had stopped talking to my boyfriend from grade 8 because it was too hard. When I was 20, my boyfriend at the time passed away from a year long battle with cancer, so of course I was sad, but I knew he had suffered so much, and I was so young, I had to move on if I ever wanted to be happy again, I wasn't looking for a relationship, but about 6 weeks after he passed, I started talking to my grade 8 boyfriend again, he knew that my ex passed away, and he was very supportive and good with me, we started dating again things were so amazing, it was great now that we were older, we could actually go out and do fun things, like go to the movies without our parents driving us around, go out drinking, do anything we wanted. It was perfect. I was for the first time in my life actually happy....and now we are engaged!! I can't imagine being with anyone else for the rest of my life...my grade 8 crush <3