QotD: Unforgettable Crush

What's the most memorable crush you have had? 
Submitted by spectacular.  

i usually hardly even notice these, but i couldn't pass this one up!  = )

***sappy content alert!!!!***

about 8 1/2 and a half years ago, i was really struggling.  things were really not where i had expected them to be  by this point in my life. (i was 19)  i was going to UNT (university of north texas) and working nights and driving about 2 hours of the day to get to work and school.  when the semester finished, i decided i needed a break to destress, so i quit my nighttime job (loading trucks for what is now fedex ground) and started looking for something in the daytime with plans to work through the year and pick up school the next year.  i also started getting involved at the church of one of my very best friends, jet.  there i met this guy.  he was tall and skinny (yes, skinny) and lots of things i had never seen in a guy before.  he was kind and patient and very devoted to God.  he was extremely funny, a very good friend, artsy and talented in all those ways that i will never be and will always be in awe of.  and he played the guitar.  and he wrote his own songs.  i began to feel a tad smitten.  then one evening i was at his house for a bible study and then hanging out into the wee hours the way college students do.  i was feeling kinda down, missing the things i had lost, wondering where i was headed.  the subject of songs with people's names came up, and i complained that the only song about a jenny is not really something you want song about or to you.  he hopped up and said, "i'll write you a song" and left to get his guitar.  sure enough, about twenty minutes later, he sang me this wonderful song that seemed to speak to all the things i was feeling, and i was a goner.  i was all his, whether he wanted me or not.  after that we started spending more time together, becoming really good friends, all the while me desperately wanting so much more, but not willing to take a chance that saying something might ruin what we had.  to borrow from the movies, he made me want to be a better person.  that october on my birthday, he wrote me another song, which included the words,  "i love you", but i just couldn't believe that he meant it as more than a friendly kind of love.  he began to think of us a couple, i didn't dare.  then one night at a christmas party, i cought his eyes across the room and he just mouthed, "i love you."  my ears roared, the room spun, and i couldn't breathe.  it actually took several moments before i realized that this probably called for a response.  it was all i could do to contain my shout to the mere lip movements, "i love you, too."  within a week, we were talking marriage, but it turned out that we had to wait over a year, until febuary 3, 2001, when i married that unforgettable crush.  he sitting on the couch next to me, eating ice cream.  and the room still spins when he says, "i love you."  i love you, my jonathan, i'm so glad this is where my life is right now, and i'm going to love wherever it goes, as long as i get to be with you.