When Mr.Colorado met me for Canada Day!

I guess what's sad about this story is that I can't remember his name, no matter how hard I try.

My friends and I were celebrating Canada Day in Baddeck, when I say my friends and I, well I'm that girl who fits in any crowd and can change who I'm with and where I'm going within seconds, even at fifteen years old.

I was alone walking the wharf when I saw him swimming with a bunch of other teens, drop dead gorgeous, and he was looking right back at me smiling from ear to ear. I shyly kept walking past them and continued on to see my friends who are from the same community as mine, about 15km away. As soon as I caught up to them, my cousin Alexis tells me that she has this huge crush on this guy that she's been looking at all day. I asked her who and where was he at and low and behold she points to the drop dead gorgeous guy who'd just caught my eye and heart. I agreed that he was cute, then she asked me to do the unthinkable, she asked me to go and talk to him and of course ask him if he would be interested in her. Oh no, I just knew this wasn't gonna go good for one of us, probably me!

I shyly walk up to him and I wish that I wasn't so nervous and all at the time because for the life of me, I can't remember his name but I desperately want to know. We get to talking and he tells me that he's from Colorado and he's up vacationing on our Cape Breton Island and that his family had decided to spend Canada Day in the Village of Baddeck. He was 16 and I was 15. I tell him the reason as to why I approached him and tell him about my cousin Alexis who was 13 years old at the time, and how she was hoping that he would like to "check her out" as in a date of some kind. But, oh such a big but, he tells me that he's very attracted to me and that he's been watching me from afar all day since he saw me swimming over across the water at Kidston Island. Also that him being 16, it just wouldn't be right for him to date someone younger and that he already liked me too much. Deep down, it was exactly what I wanted to hear from him. I told him that I couldn't do that to Alexis but he insisted, to the point that he said he would even tell her himself.

Well, we walked off that wharf holding hands and kissing. Yup, just like that. Not far away we end up sitting at a picnic table. With people from my community who knew me driving by, I just didn't care that we were all over eachother and making out on top of the picnic table. Let's just say it got really hot and heavy and we decided that we should probably go for a walk and get some privacy.

We ended up in the park area of The Alexander Graham Bell Museum and of course, we were still all over eachother when he asked me to go into the woods with him. Well, being a tough native girl from the Rez, I didn't see any problems with walking into the woods with some white guy from Colorado that I'd just met today, none whatsoever. We got a little ways into the woods when we just went all out animals in the wild with eachother and I can just say that we had sex, but I still believe that we made love. Yes, there are alot of details from that day that I didn't include, but there's some moments that I still treasure to myself.

I just feel and know that someday I'll eventually meet him again. It's been about 21 years and I've had 5 children since I've seen him but I miss him all the same, perhaps even more each day. I've been single for almost 4 years and I don't have plans on changing that anytime soon. I'm content where I'm at, but I feel like maybe I'd be happier if I found him. I'm guessing that he would be about 37 or maybe even 38 now, and I hope that he is living a happy and successful life with lots of love, because he deserves it so much. Maybe even with a beautiful wife and lovely children. I just wish that I can thank him for helping me find self-love at a time when I needed someone to help me with that, he made me believe in possibilities and love. I hope that you are doing good out there Mr.Colorado.

Until we meet again, Nikkii aka Nichole.