21 and still forever....
I had volunteered to run in a relay for our Running Club alongside my sisters. This is where I met him. He intrigued me. He was running in a group of 4, I was in a group of 8. He was much faster than me and although he had to run more often, he kept coming back to chat to me. I had hoped he would. We chatted the whole afternoon. There was definitely something there. Something clicked. It felt right. I had just returned from my first year of Uni and decided to continue studying at home. I hated Durban. I had left my friends, a flat and my boyfriend behind. It was not the happiest of times. Steve had just joined Anglo American as an HR Management Trainee, he had just left Durban too. We had both been there over January, cycled down to the beachfront each day and never met. The following week we were back at the Running club, time trials were over and we were enjoying a quietly rowdy drink. I saw him. Plopped myself down amongst his friends ...