Cloud Nine Moment

After I left Newsome and was on my way back to my classroom I was literally walking on cloud nine.  I know where that expression comes from because I felt it.  My feet were light and I felt like I was gliding along.  Remember, we were not allowed to talk while walking in the hallways, we had to "march" but I wasn't marching --I was floating.  My chest felt like it was going to explode, it was so full.

Another female student was walking in the hallway towards me and she was giving me the strangest look.  It took me out of my cloud nine moment and I had a sort of snap out of it moment and I realized I had been singing.  I don't even know what song (wish I remembered) but I was just happily strolling down the hallway singing and humming like I was going to a garden party or something.

When I got back to my classroom I couldn't help the fact that I was grinning from ear to ear.  By now, everyone was pretty used to me having to go see Sergeant Major and sometimes even joked, "If I didn't know better I'd think you and Sergeant Major had something going on."

*smiles*  We did.  He was friends with this guy I was madly falling for (or had fallen for) and against the rules he let me have a visitor.

Looking back, I wonder if Sergeant Major really just did finally give into Newsome or maybe in a way he knew he had done me wrong with the whole statement thing and perhaps he was trying to make up for that --or favor me --or set me up so he had something on me as much as I had something on him.  Whatever it was, I was happy about the visitor.

I was very happy until I realized . . . . .

I can't marry Staff Sergeant Newsome and how am I ever going to tell him that?