Loving a Geek (sample love story entry)

(This is a sample love story entry to the Share Your Love Story contest here at Evilwoobie.com. I’m posting my own love story just to get the ball rolling.)

I met hubby in a nook reserved for students who want to hang out in the University of the Philippines, approximately a decade ago. I didn’t really mind him at first because there were so many other people to talk to. Until one night, I was asked to join a few people who wanted to play D&D. Hubby was the dungeon master.

He spoke in a very melodious voice and I noticed how his dimples showed every time he laughed. I suddenly blurted out “Is there a way that my healer elf could marry your knight and live happily ever after?”, and kicked myself mentally right after saying that. He replied “Hmm, well I guess you can roll for that”. He didn’t notice… but everyone else did. He finally took the hint and we got closer after that.

Throughout the years, we maintained an easy-going relationship where we’d meet up whenever we felt like it (to watch Matrix and other hot movies at that time), and kept apart when we had other stuff to do, which was most of the time. He’d invite me to his Magic The Gathering mini-tournaments, where I got to hold his deck cases for him while he pawned everyone with his necromancer/Land D deck. I was surprised at the guys attending these tournaments. It seemed that they only approached a girl there if she was holding a Magic cards deck, and always with the coolest pick up line, “Wanna try that against mine?”

These moments with him introduced me to geek culture pretty drastically. What I thought was geeky (getting absorbed in a book for hours or days at a time), got revamped with concepts of Pokemon, Anime, Manga, Star Wars and Tamiya races. I gladly embraced the geek culture because hubby was right in the middle of it.

For some reason, we always got together during Valentine’s day. It’s like an annual thing for us, and no matter how infrequent we see each other throughout the year, we will surely meet during Valentines. More than once, I had to tell a current involvement that I am going to spend Valentine’s with an old friend, and I would get the “spend Valentine’s with that guy and it’s over” ultimatum from that other guy. To which, I could only reply a mumbled, “I’m sorry.” No wonder it never worked out with anyone else.

And so, on the Valentine’s day of 2005, I and hubby had our annual meet-up. A few months after that, I told him I was pregnant. From that moment onwards, we had to let go of our easy-going geeky lives and concentrate on raising a geek child. We still have our moments together by playing network games and discussing the most current patches in our favorite MMORPGs.

Loving a geek isn’t difficult. You just have to be one, too.

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