helplessly romantic

dancing around my room, hair brush in hand, screaming taylor swift at the top of my lungs. my phone rings and the dancing stops. i have about five minutes to get ready...so i run around frantically looking for something cute to wear. it is saint patrick's day after all. a green "a good luck charmer" shirt, trouser jeans, and zebra print sperry's is the final outcome. as i hop in the car, i  say "where are we headed"... as my friend informs me that it is a surprise. i hate surprises because they make me so antsy.  we pull into walgreens,  a cherry coke and some water, and we are on the road again.  we pull into a park and i am told to pick out a picnic table. so i pick the table under the shady pines with a view of the pond as the ducks are ducking their heads into the water grabbing fish. butts in the air and all. which draws my attention to them when my friend pulls out a picnic basket with strawberries, sandwich's, pretzels, and trail mix, and tells me that we are having a picnic at the park. just the two of us and ask's me if that is okay with me? of course, it is okay with me. i had never had anyone do something so thoughtful.  it is an 80 degree beautiful spring day with just the right breeze. we sat together in silence, looking out over the water at the people fishing on the other side, and ate our lunch. my friend then say's "do you want to walk?" so i said "sure, but where are we going?" and she said "you'll see". so we started out in this park area where kids and their families were swinging, sliding, and playing basketball until we came upon a dirt trail. she said "follow me"....i did as i was told. we started walking the dirt trail only to come upon a beyond beautiful wooded area with a narrow trail, park benches along the way, that looked like a scene out of the walk to remember book by nicholas sparks. it was beyond gorgeous as the breeze hit the trees, the colors magnified even more. we walked the trail for hours talking about everything under the sun and she stopped so that i could snap pictures here and there along the way. when we finished the 4 mile trail, we stopped to take it all in while sitting on a park bench for a few minutes. i asked "where are we off to next?" and she said "i have an idea".... so we hop into the car and head to another town. mind you, it took about thirty minutes to get there. she pulls into a library parking lot and tells me to pick out any movies that i would like to see or books that i would like to read and we sat at a table in silence for a couple of hours, taking everything in. it was so relaxing and peaceful. by the time we left, it was getting close to dinner time and we were both starved so she takes me to sonic, orders me popcorn chicken and tator tots with a cherry lime-ade, my favorite and we sat in her car and ate with the sunroof open watching the sun go down. then we headed to her house. i colored her hair and i laid on her sofa, she in the chair, as we watched movies until we both practically fell asleep. then she took me home. it was basically, the cutest, would be the most romantic day if we were in love and dating. i couldn't help but think on the ride home why can i not find someone who loves me as much as my friend if not more to date me. friend love, sometimes i think that friends know how to love truthfully without the contact part more than couples do. an amazing ending story, to a not so happy week. God, love her.