“I can’t believe you would say such a cheesy line,” she said, folding her arms across her chest and turning away. The boy’s mouth hung open, and he grasped at her hand.

“I thought you would like something like this,” he said.

“I do,” she replied, turning back to him with a look of disdain. “But not if you’re going to tack on some cheesy line that sounds like it came from a book titled ‘How to pick up chicks’.”

“‘You’re more radiant than the setting sun’? That’s cheesy?” He rubbed his thumbs along the back of her hands. “I thought it was cute.” He looked down at his feet and sighed. The girl, feeling slightly guilty for his pitiful appearance, leaned towards him, her nose brushing against his.

“It was cute,” she muttered. “But just this time. Next time you have to make up your own pick-up lines.”

He smiled and lifted his head, gently placing his lips against her forehead. She responded by lifting her own lips up to meet his.

Process:

For the Love at First Shot assignment, we were given the additional task of altering the photo in some way. Considering the attached help to the given assignment was a tutorial for making a gif in GIMP, I decided to make a gif.

I just did a simple 3-frame one. Took the photo, rearranged the heads, and put them back into their original positions in the next two frames. Altered the frame length so that it would be a little varied, and then exported as usual.

Sarah met Mike when she was just 18. Friends at school and over summer break. They went to senior prom and became best friends. She gave him a bow; he gave her a flower. The following year, they each went their own way; one to college and the other traveled.  As time and distance grew between them, their love never waned. They were met with challenges along the way – some as dark as the night, and as cold as an icy rain. They laughed, they cried, and share quite moments sitting side by side. The seasons changed and their love grew even deeper. Eventually they married, had children, worked hard and saved their money. Together, with their family, they traveled to new and exciting places and made lasting memories along the way. Today they share a simple and happy life, in a small little town, where their children and grandchildren aren’t too far. Love isn’t always easy, but it can last forever. Love is honest and kind, not deceitful or cruel. Love is lasting and endures the test of time. Love keeps us together even when far apart. Love is accepting and understanding; funny and sincere. Love is faithful. Love is taking a chance and making it work. Love is doing the right thing – for the right reason. Real love is forever.

Love is… holding hands and walking together

 This day I will remember forever.  We met on the playground, our parents were talking about work and cars.  Since they were busy we found our first kiss. This kiss I will remember forever, I will never forget.  It will rest on my heart forever. When your parents move for a job in a couple of years we will be separated. We will both cry ourselves to sleep, we won’t eat and our world will feel like it’s ending.

We will promise to keep in touch.  We will at firs,t but as the years drag on we will become detached.  Separated by time and distance,  distracted by life. We will eventually date and marry others,  oh how I wish I could have married you.  You are my soul mate forever.  My heart still carries that one kiss.

I will always love you for sharing that first kiss.  I will never forget you or that day on the playground when you said that I could kiss you. The memory is all I have now for we are now different people.  If only I could turn time back, I would for just one more kiss.

The photo is a random photo that I borrowed from http://4photos.net/photosv2/Young_Lovers_1273575318.jpg.  I just made up a story.  I think if you take a minute to reflect,  we probably all share a similar story.

Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl who lived on a hill with her mother and father. She had beautiful blue eyes and pure white hair and skin. Her father was known and admired across the land and when she was little she loved being a daddy’s girl. One day the little girl grew up and began to imagine what it would be like if she could meet a nice and handsome man to sweep her off her feet. She loved children and worked at a pre-school. She dreamed of someday having a house full of her own children. She wondered if this life could ever be real or if it was destined to be a fantasy.

Down in the valley there was a young boy with dark hair and brown eyes and a playful smile that seemed to say “I’m up to something”. He was just graduating from school but didn’t know what to do with himself. He was smart and physically capable of doing just about anything but didn’t know how to go about it. He spent his days hanging out with other misguided young men and gave no thought to what tomorrow would be like; only living for the moment. He was a kind hearted soul but with no job or a sense of direction he was a little lost and lonely and unsure about what would become of him.

One day while he was just hanging out near a neighborhood beach he spotted a beautiful girl and in that moment nothing else mattered. He couldn’t take his eyes off of her. He had never felt this way before and he hadn’t even talked to her yet. What was this? Why did she seem to matter so much? She smiled at him and now his world was spinning. He had to talk to her. He gave her that playful smile of his and she knew instantly that he was the one!

They spent that summer discovering each other and with her as his compass he found his path. He found a good career and bought a beautiful home with enough room to fill with babies. At Christmas time he took her out to a sparkling light show and asked her to be his forever. Soon the daddy’s girl was walking down the aisle where the young, and now successful, man stood waiting with that playful smile.   Their hearts were full of love and joy at the life they would now have together.

Dreams really do come true. Today they have a precious little boy and are anticipating that he will be a big brother very soon. A happy home full of beautiful babies and lots of love . . . what more is there!

And so they all lived happily ever after!

*Just threw a message in a bottle into the ocean*

Girl: Do you think anyone will actually find this?

Guy: I don’t really know. I can only hope that the message will reach whoever needs to read it the most.

Girl: It’s exciting isn’t it? To think that wherever this bottle will end up, someone can add their story to ours?

Guy: It sure is, I can’t believe that message has been added to over the span of generations.

Girl: So much love concentrated into one small bottle waiting to be opened for the next person for them to be inspired hopefully.

Guy: Yeah, and the message will be passed on and on. maybe even our love as well as others can reach other continents and even the most exotic of places. It has the potential to bring light to the darkest of places.

Girl: We’ve done our part, we made sure the love passes on to who needs it. The only thing we can do is carry on ourselves; never letting go of who we are because of this experience and move forward to explore the depths of our own oceans darling.

Guy: As long as we have each other, no depth is too deep, my love.

This is the love story of one that was never told. The man was at college becoming a chef at the Culinary Institute and dreamed of owning a catering business. The woman was just a second year college student not knowing what she wanted to be in the future. Never would they imagine that they would soon find each other and be married for now 37 years. She was home from college and needed a job so she applied to work at a country club. Desperate to get the job she put random skills on her resume hoping that she could get some kind of job so she could have a little cash before returning to college. She had a great life being in a big sorority and had a boyfriend who was on the track of becoming a doctor. Life was all falling into place until she got the job to be a preparation chef. She had no idea how to make anything that they asked her to do but was in fear that she would lose her job. The man worked at the country club as a chef and noticed this woman he had never seen before. She was something else. She was flustered and frustrated with the items he and his colleague had asked her to prepare. Seeing that she might lose her job he did her job for her. Making the meals he would finish and then would go over to her station and finish it before her boss would even notice. She took notice in what he did and that is where their relationship began. They began to get to know each other and when the summer ended their romance did not. She went back to school and so did he. She ended the relationship with the future doctor and began to go out with the future chef. Their schools were not in the same state and him being older and having his own car would come down from New York to Virginia as much as he could to see her. Later that year he graduated and within the 9 months of being together he proposed. At first she said, “no.” He had never asked her father for her hand in marriage and he tried to propose to her in the parking lot of a bar. He tried again even with her father not fully approving and this time she said, “Yes.” She had only been 19. He had been 25. Her father tried to pay her off and get her to walk out on her wedding day. The love that she had for him wasn’t worth the price her father had offered. It was worth so much more. She moved down to the city with him and transfer schools. Her father had cut her off of money so she had to make ends meet. They now own a successful catering business and have two kids. One is their own who is 32 and has Cerebral Palsy named Brandon and they adopted a daughter who is 20 and her name is Gabrielle. The man’s name is Gordon and the woman’s name is Ann and this is the love story of my parents.