How We Met: Mary's Version
Sep. 6th, 2006 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sillygoosegirlJosh first spotted Mary at ITR games during Mary's first week at Harvey Mudd College. After that, he stalked her, gleaning information from such people as Nick, who already knew Mary from swing dancing. At the second week of ITR games, Josh decided it was time to make his move. He walked up to Mary as soon as she arrived and greeted her as if they already knew each other and then proceeded to introduce himself to her roommate, Rachel, with whom she had arrived. The following evening Josh cornered Mary at the Mudd Occasional Ball (MOB) and asked her to dance the Jolly Dog Polka and wouldn't take no for an answer.
During the following week, Mary came to believe that her stalker had lost interest in her. This did not turn out to be the case. Josh again enlisted the help of his friend Nick to approach Mary one evening while she was sitting alone in the lounge and encourage her to go visit Chessers Suite where Josh lived. To insure that Mary would continue visiting Chessers Suite, Josh enlisted the help of his suitemates to invent a game called chessers and to teach it to Mary so that she would need to continue to visit Chessers Suite to find people to play this new game with.
Over fall break, Josh again went to his friends for help. This time he convinced Matt M. and Jess F. to pretend to develop a great boredom and desire to get off campus. As part of the plan, they of course invited along Mary. Then, pretending it was an after thought they picked up Josh, and of course brought Micah along so that Mary would believe that in fact they were just innocently inviting along a couple members of Chessers Suite. During this trip Mary and Josh had their first real opportunity to talk to each other, but Josh's real goal with the trip was to keep Mary out until she was so tired that she would be tempted to fall asleep on his shoulder in the car. Mary, being the decent girl that she was, managed to stay awake for the entire trip.
When things continued to move slowly, Josh realized that he would have to take more drastic measures. This time he got help from Evil Southie, who allowed him to join the Dungeons and Dragons campaign which Mary was playing in. Once in the campaign, he used a powerful spell to put himself in Mary's head. Thus she got used to his company while she was away for Thanksgiving break.
After that things stayed calm for a little while until it came time for everyone to go home for Winter Break. The morning she had to leave, he walked her to her carpool (with the excuse of helping one of his suitemates carry baggage out to the car), and waved goodbye looking so sad and lonely that it finally just melted Mary's heart.
Over the break, Mary and Joshua came up with excuses to email each other, such as the theft of koalas from the San Fransisco Zoo, and Josh's upcoming birthday party. After they got back from break, sparks flew almost immediately.
During the following week, Mary came to believe that her stalker had lost interest in her. This did not turn out to be the case. Josh again enlisted the help of his friend Nick to approach Mary one evening while she was sitting alone in the lounge and encourage her to go visit Chessers Suite where Josh lived. To insure that Mary would continue visiting Chessers Suite, Josh enlisted the help of his suitemates to invent a game called chessers and to teach it to Mary so that she would need to continue to visit Chessers Suite to find people to play this new game with.
Over fall break, Josh again went to his friends for help. This time he convinced Matt M. and Jess F. to pretend to develop a great boredom and desire to get off campus. As part of the plan, they of course invited along Mary. Then, pretending it was an after thought they picked up Josh, and of course brought Micah along so that Mary would believe that in fact they were just innocently inviting along a couple members of Chessers Suite. During this trip Mary and Josh had their first real opportunity to talk to each other, but Josh's real goal with the trip was to keep Mary out until she was so tired that she would be tempted to fall asleep on his shoulder in the car. Mary, being the decent girl that she was, managed to stay awake for the entire trip.
When things continued to move slowly, Josh realized that he would have to take more drastic measures. This time he got help from Evil Southie, who allowed him to join the Dungeons and Dragons campaign which Mary was playing in. Once in the campaign, he used a powerful spell to put himself in Mary's head. Thus she got used to his company while she was away for Thanksgiving break.
After that things stayed calm for a little while until it came time for everyone to go home for Winter Break. The morning she had to leave, he walked her to her carpool (with the excuse of helping one of his suitemates carry baggage out to the car), and waved goodbye looking so sad and lonely that it finally just melted Mary's heart.
Over the break, Mary and Joshua came up with excuses to email each other, such as the theft of koalas from the San Fransisco Zoo, and Josh's upcoming birthday party. After they got back from break, sparks flew almost immediately.
