the welcoming party. I also had a room full of mice!! And the Garbers were gone on vacation!! And who else would I call except for the person who offered his mice killing expertise? I still remember calling Jason at 10pm at night to come get a mouse freshly caught on the glue trap--my nerves were raw and I couldn't handle killing the mouse by myself! So, there we are, standing at the front door in our pajamas, talking about random things for a half hour, while Jason was holding the mouse stuck to the glue trap in the grocery bag. It was weird. I recognized then that it was weird. But he was my knight in white shining armor. And still he was only my friend. Honestly, I still only saw him as that.

AND THEN . . . Christina and I were having a random conversation at the start of school. She said to me, "You know Jason likes you, don't you?" I said, "No he doesn't! How do you know?" She said, "He's been so nice at housechurch lately." I had to laugh, but I

totally disagreed--he always treated me like his cousin/sisters! Looking back, I can't believe I didn't see how our friendship was growing in this direction, but I honestly didn't. I think it was the Lord's blessing to me. Because it was at this time period that I was growing closer to Him and being SO CONTENT in my singlehood. In fact, I started to toy with the idea of Jason liking me, but it was unhealthy, like back how my attitude was toward a guy I dated in college. If it was me being coy and trying to get Jason to like me then it would not work. That's not how it's supposed to be. It's not how I asked God to do it. But, I didn't see God doing it while He was doing it, and looking back, I am thankful, because He knows how much I love surprises!!

So, anyway, back to the idea of trying to like Jason. Shortly after Christina told me, Jason and I went out for Chinese before my class. He had been craving Chinese for a while, and I said, hey, I'll go with you. It seemed normal to me, because