I met my boyfriend in school. We were just friends but now we know that we had mutual crushes on each other. He was super quiet in school and we had art class together and in our friend group we basically just slacked off and got in trouble in class each day. He ended up switching schools and moving but we were still friends online, although it was more so just liking each other's posts and commenting on them once in a while.
I ended up moving away senior year and it wasn't really until after I graduated that me and him started talking online more. It wasn't like super flirty, but you can tell it was a bit. We actually messaged each other and stuff and he'd joke about disguising himself as an old man and sneaking into my Subway to ask for a spit sandwich, ya know, normal stuff like that...
Well I ended up moving back with my mom and him and I were still talking every once in a while, I told him we should hang out but he lived way too far to walk and had no ride to hang out. One day I was headed to the beach with my friend and we stopped at the gas station, she had me go in to buy drinks, and he was working. I could see once he saw me he kind of "lit up" and I brought the drinks to the counter, and he just asked me if that was it, and I said "Yes." And thought it was funny he didn't even really say "hi" to me or anything.
Well it was enough to get us really talking, that night when I got home he had messaged me saying he was sorry he hadn't said hi, and we just started talking more. Then he moved right down the street from me, and there was no more excuses to not hang out so I told him I needed help putting up Halloween decorations. So he came over, and we didn't put up any decorations. We basically sat in my room and hung out all day, catching up and stuff. He made me laugh so hard my ribs were sore and my face was sore from smiling. Like the next day I messaged him saying that I still needed help putting up decorations because ya know, we didn't even do that. So he came over and we put up some of them up, we had a lot of fun, but then we hung out some more.
He started coming over a lot, and we got to that "tickling" phase, where it's the only way we can awkwardly touch each other so we'd wrestle and tickle each other because we didn't know what else to do. One night after he went home he was messaging me, and we confessed our feelings to each other, and not even that was enough. He came over for Halloween and we were still him-hawing around our feelings, we'd gotten over saying it online but didn't know how to pull it into the real world apparently.
So at the beginning of November we'd started watching movies together, because with all of my friends and more than friends, I must subject them to all of the movies I love. So he had messaged me after he got off work and we talked for a bit online, and then he asked if he could kiss me, yes, he asked permission first, and I told him yes, he could, I had been kissing him on the cheek everyday when he'd go to leave, but he hadn't gotten the hint. So the next time he came over we watched Repo! The Genetic Opera and as soon as the credits came on we started kissing. XD That was it.
The next day he came into my work, and I introduced him as my boyfriend. He started coming over almost every day, and then two months later he moved in, since he was already staying every night there. And we've been together for almost 4 years now.