Okayyyyyy this is a bit of a train wreck story but I’ll try to tell it the best way that I can, and PLEASE give me your opinions or say if you’ve gone through something similar :)

It was June when I received a follow request from a familiar guy on Instagram.

I suppose he looked familiar because I had probably seen him around, just without the context of who he actually is.

I immediately noticed that the other boys in his photos were my friends. We ended up having ALOT of mutual friends.

Then suddenly, it was July 4th and I was at a festival two towns over watching a concert with my best friend. We managed to get four rows from the front into the mosh pit area.

I vaguely remember making eye contact with a dark, handsome, and vaguely familiar guy across the crowd. But that was all. Everyone around me was getting drunk and shouting celebrations that I forgot about him pretty quick.

That night I received a message on my Instagram. The message came from the guy who friended me in June. He said “I saw you and the festival and was wondering if I could have your Snapchat”

I gave it to him

He began to message me... he sent me pictures of himself and I realized that he was also dark and handsome.

My life moves fast and I rarely have time to pick up my phone.

Slowly he stopped trying to reach out to me....

Until July 13 when he asked me what I was doing. I told him that I was getting a snow cone with my friends. I was with 20+ people at the only snow cone place in the tri-area at 8pm

He immediately sent me a video of him driving and captioned it “how weird, I’m On my way there now.”

I didn’t think much of it until it happened again the same night at two in the morning.

I’m an artist and I design tattoos for people off of my iPad pro, a design program, and an Apple Pencil. I dropped my Apple Pencil down an elevator shaft and needed a new one for the next day, so I convinced my friends to come to the super Walmart with me one town over at 2am.

After ten minutes of being there, I got a snap from this guy. He asked me what I was doing and I sent him a video of me and my friends in Walmart as a response.

There was no caption telling him which of the three Walmart’s I was at in our area.

Two minutes later, he sent me a video of him and his friend walking into Walmart and captioned it “what a coincidence”

The weirder part is that once he saw me, he said hi, and then he grabbed candy from the check out isle and left.

The Walmart I was at is mainly used for big tech purchases as it is severely out of the way for most people in town to take a trip just for candy.

I turned this over in my head for a while and got distracted by my friends being stupid in Walmart to completely finish my thoughts.

Two days later, I went to a friend’s graduation party. Like I said, we have a lot of mutual friends. I wasn’t surprised to see him there.

At this party, I became incredibly attracted to him. We had a lot in common and we kind of just “connected” in a way. But then he left the party, and that was that.

Three more days past and I kind of missed him, in a way...

I texted him and found out that he would be leaving for the marine basic training in two days

I acted on impulse and met up with him for a quick hookup...

In my mind, it was just supposed to be a hookup, but to him it seemed like more.

He started talking and connecting with me and suddenly I didn’t mind that it wasn’t just a hookup. I didn’t WANT it to be just a hookup anymore.

I slept with him, and then we talked, and then we Laid there, and then I took him home to leave for the marines.

He texted me until the minute they took his phone away to begin basic training. The texts got super intense, and I didn’t mind them at first.

A lot of them were sexts, but there was more.

He asked if I wanted him to write to me while he was away and I said yes and I gave him my address.

Some of the texts he sent me included:

“You’re MINE when I get back”

“Don’t worry, I’ll write you soon cutie”

“ just wait I’ll be back soon”

These texts seemed completely normal when I first read them; however, I had to remind myself that this person barely knows me.

He’s been gone for nearly nine days and I’ve had time to really turn things over in my head.

1.) in June, I texted my friend Brandon that I wish I had a guy, and he sent my Instagram photos to his guy group chat as a joke to embarrass me.

2.) this guy described the first time he saw me in person right before I slept with him: it was the Fourth of July at the festival and according to him, everyone around me disappeared and it was really intense eye contact

3.) I just realized that I left my snap maps on the day he ran into me because my friend was getting lost on her way to my house and needed help. My Snap maps shows everyone I’m friends with where I am and how long ago I was there. I forgot to turn it off.

4.) I just texted my friend Brandon to see who’s in the group chat he sent those photos to, and this guy was on the list.

5.) I explained this situation to one of our mutual friends, and he looked up at me all concerned and said “watch out, he’s attached.”

Does this sound creepy??? Is it just a normal crush? I mean I have feelings for him, but something also feels off.

He told me that he’s coming for me when he’s back in three months.

Someone please give their opinion on all of this!!!