“His grin was something that I hadn’t ever expected to see directed at me. Nor had I ever imagined that I could be joking with him. Being with him was more than what I had pictured in my romantic dreams, and more than what I had imagined in my erotic fantasies. Being in love was all that plus a special kind of friendship too that was a lot of fun. I felt like I had everything with him now and couldn’t ask for more.
Yet more kept coming. It was like fate decided to make up for all the years that we had been at odds, because Mason kept surpassing my expectations. When I expected to “see only his new apartment at college, I saw Mason get down on one knee and propose to me. Of course I said yes, and I started off college with a fiancé rather than a boyfriend.
I had expected him to be
