Sapphire's blog: "Love comes agsain ?"

I called in the following day, using my woman problems as an excuse, the truth was I only had the one day left in the toy department, I was scheduled to transfer to cashier the following day, I took the day off the recoup my mentality. Working the toy department was a lot different than running a register all day, spending time with my children seemed to make everything worth whiled so we spent the day playing video games together instead. Mike had went in the department looking for me. He had no idea that not only had I called in that day, but I was also to be transferred the next day, he was afraid he would never see me again. I am so grateful for fate tat he never gave up on me because within a week or so he finally found me in one of the many long lines. I looked up and there he was. I felt he was just as nervous as I was and he flirted with me as I was checking him out. It took him a few more trips to get up enough courage to ask me out. When he did I was so nervous that I blurted out, I'm a single mother of two children, my god is that all I can think of brilliant. Without skipping a beat he asked me "Don't single mothers get hungry too?" He gave me his number and told me to call him. I called him after my shift was over from the payphone in layaway we talked for hours and I lost track of time the next thing knew it went from being 10 p.m. to it going on 2 a.m. I hated to go but I needed to get home my babysitter would be worried so I agreed to go out to dinner with him on my next day off and hung up. I fell asleep feeling happy and free for the first time in a long time. I realized I didn't given him my number so I hoped he would come in the next day. I felt like a schoolgirl with her first crush praying he would come in , I waited for an eternity and took a break, feeling saddened he never showed up, as I was walking back in from my break there he was, I asked him to let me have a pen and paper and I wrote my number using his chest as a desk. His pounding heart let me know everything I needed to know, he was as interested in me as I was him .

At the time Mike and I met, I was dating someone whom I thought I was falling madly in love with. He was an older gentleman that showed me that not all men were jerks and that I was worth something to be cherished. I had not ever felt this way before and I confused kindness with love.Mike would later show me the difference with his love and compassion and understanding. I thank God every night he walked in my line that night. I was working at Wal-Mart / in the toy department, the first time Mike and I met. He walked in looking for pool chlorine, I was atop a ladder putting stock away, and was looking for any reason to climb down and take a break, so this give me the perfect opportunity, the moment our eyes met there was an un describable spark., I didn't know what it was , but it was different from anything I have ever felt before. I walked him over to where the chlorine was and had a little small talk, as I excused myself to climb back up my ladder, I felt his gaze follow me. He pretended to look at the bikes all the time watching me. I tried not to let him know I was onto him, so I just kept working, feeling his eyes heat up my insides enflaming my soul, I didn't know why, but I was definitely charmed. The man I have been seeing walked up to come in to talk to me before he went out to a Halloween party. We had nit -picked about something and by time he left I looked up and Mike was gone. Feeling all of a sudden saddened and alone, having it be my time of the month gave me the perfect opportunity to leave work early and go home to my lonely apartment and cry myself to sleep