As the girls around her in French class were giggling in her direction, she wondered what was so funny. Wanting to be in on the joke Natalia learned that she was on Peter Liston’s ‘list’. Being the mature grade 11 boy that he was, Peter had made a list of of the top ten girls in his grade that he wanted to date. She was number one. While some girls would have been insulted, or horrified or slapped him, Natalia had a different reaction. She was oddly flattered. This cute boy across the room had chosen her number one and was intrigued. And so began their relationship…
At first there was no denying that there were not the best couple. Okay, an awful couple. They had nothing in common. She liked Science, he liked history. She liked sports, he liked film. Their time was divided equally with kissing and fighting. As they broke up and got back together again and again their classmates loved the show. They were THAT couple : slamming lockers, punching walls at dances, storming out of parties and generally making a scene. And then they would make up and be on their way as if nothing had happened at all. Yes, they were that couple. Voted prom king and queen by their peers, they were also voted the most likely to get divorced. But they knew better. Natalia and Peter knew that they were never going to get married.
Now this was a pretty definitive statement in both of their books. It had a big solid period at the end of it. No ifs or butts. They were never-not going to happen-no way-no how-knew better than to ever get married. So when Natalia moved across the Country to go to University they assumed that this was the end of their relationship. They wouldn’t have each other to kiss or fight and things just wouldn’t work. But when hundreds of miles separated them something happened. They started talking. Really talking for the first time in their relationship. What they had always seen as big differences no long mattered. They weren’t important. Every single night as they talked for hours on the phone they go to know each other a little bit more. And as they matured as individuals, they began to cherish these differences and grew into best friends. After years as teenagers thinking that they would never get married, they had grown into two adults who couldn’t imagine ever being apart. Upon their return to the same city there was denying that they had grown up and grown together. And while they admit that they are a bit more boring these days with no scenes, that distance was exactly was what they needed to know that they would always be number one on each others’ list.
- Brianna (photos by Yaira)
Gown : Nicholas and Elizabeth. Floral/Catering : Jim Anderson and Culinary Catering. Venue : London Ukranian Club.
by Brianna
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