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Today is a special day, not just any day...(word to Tony, Toni, Tone.)  

On this exact date, two years ago, my life changed. That sounds very dramatic when I read it, but that's exactly what happened. February 23rd is the day that I met Alex, with her fine ass. 

I remember parts of this day very clearly. It was a Saturday, another perfect day in Los Angeles. I had two tickets to go see my bro Alec and the Utah Jazz play the Clippers. This was the first NBA game that I ever attended so I was fired up. I decided to take my sister, she's a huge sports fan, so I knew that we would have a great time. 

So we get to the Staples Center and I'm loving it. We had great seats, Blake Griffin and Chris Paul were flopping, lil bro was playing a good game, people were drunk in the crowd, it was a good time. Around the 3rd Quarter, I decided to check my phone. When I looked on my phone I had a lot of instagram notifications. I was SHOCKED to see that Alex had been liking and commenting on all of my pictures. I guess I couldn't hide how happy I was because my sister asked me "What are you looking at?!?"  she's real nosey, she wanted to know what was taking my attention away from the game. I said nothing, put my phone back in my pocket and watched the action on the court. By this time my focus was nowhere near this game. I was trying to figure out how the hell Alex found me first of all and secondly if she was choosing me, or just being nice.

I should probably give some background information at this part of the story. I had been following Alex on social media for about 6 months before this night. She calls it stalking, I say that I just had my eyes on her. I first saw her on Tumblr, I then found her IG and Twitter. I was definitely very intrigued from a distance. When I followed her on Twitter, she gave me a compliment on my locs, I said thank you and gave a compliment back, that was it, that was about three months before this night. I tried to say something to her a month before when she was asking about one of my favorite books, The Alchemist on twitter, but she ignored me. (She denies this happening, but I remember.) As bad as I wanted to reach out to her, I didn't. Pimp-C told me that real player's get chose! I really just didn't think that I had a shot. Wasn't gonna have me looking stupid in her DM's hoping for a reply, hell naw! Luckily, God knew that my pride would hold me back and made a way out of no way. She chose me. 

I looked back at my phone in the 4th Quarter. I've never been so happy to see a notification. Alex slid right in my DM's. God is good. I knew she had messed up then, all I needed was a toe in the door and I knew I was gonna kick it down. No way I was letting this opportunity pass me up. I literally used to describe Alex when people would ask me who my dream woman was. And now here she was, in my phone. I kept the DM conversation going into the next day. She gave me her number 16 messages later and she's been stuck with me ever since.  

Moral of the story, don't be scared to use that DM feature if you are interested in somebody, you might look like a creep, but it might turn ino something special.