If you would’ve told me a year ago that I would be best friends with these two army guys, I wouldn’t have believed you.
I met my boyfriend Chace about six months ago when I started college at Georgia Southern. He’s a Construction Management major and was from the outskirts of my hometown. He told me he wanted to go into the Army and dreamed of helping others. We were completely different people; we had different backgrounds, socio-economical statuses, and views on many things. Somehow we make this work. This past week marks 4 months with him, and I’ve never been happier. I was terrified at the idea of him leaving for Basic Training this May, and that I would be alone. Then one day we had lunch with his friends in ROTC (he calls them his “battle buddies”), and I met Thomas.
Now Thomas is generally the stereotypical image of “that army guy." He’s just your average big, conservative, looks like he would fight a bear kind-of-guy. At this time last semester, he was just one of Chace’s ROTC friends. He was another guy I thought I didn’t have anything in common with. Sometime between then and now, he became my best friend. He took me to my first college party and looked after me. He made sure I was okay the entire time and that I was safe. He likes to think of me as his little sister (even though I’m three months older than him). It’s something I wasn’t used to, and it’s very reassuring to know that you have someone that will always have your back.
I know it sounds completely crazy to think these guys have had such a big effect on me in such a short amount of time. They are my best friends, no doubt about that. They've both had a huge effect on my life so far. With Chace, he's my boyfriend and we're in a healthy relationship. That's something you don't see alot of in college these days. With Thomas, he makes me keep up with him. This usually means dragging me to the gym at 6:00 AM from time to time.
I hope that a year, two years, even ten years from now, that I’ll have these guys in my life. I don’t know what I would do without them.
