New Year Kiss leads to completed New Year Resolution ^_^;;

Sooo.... I have a boyfriend now.

Let me rewind back to the evening of January 1st, 2025:

I heard a bunch of my VRChat friends say in a discord server call that they were playing Probability Games, so I decided to log into VRChat using my headset and join them, only to find out that half of them were slowly falling asleep and leaving. On top of that, they had quickly switched to Prison Escape, so by the time I logged into the game, I found them in that lobby.

I won't say specifics of how I met Butcher (I'm calling him that due to privacy - not going to say his real name or his username on VRChat), but just know it was hilarious of quick wits while facing each other in our prison cells, trying to escape without getting caught.

We later, as a group, decided to move to another game called Murder Mystery 4 due to a Christmas update of sitting on Santa's lap. (I am not joking - we had to accomplish certain tasks each round to get to our goal.) When the group reduced to a few people, some of our mutual friends agreed to just talk and get to know each other while Butcher and I went to farm for the same tasks - we stayed there for more than an hour before we actually unlocked the creepy shit that Santa Claus says when you sit on his lap, plus some plushies! (Let me see if I can upload a link...)

(Oh shit, I can.)

During this hunt for items, as Butcher led me to a hallway, he smoothly turned to me and remarked that he sort of wanted to get a chance to kiss me underneath a mistletoe. Sure enough, there was a mistletoe dangling above our heads.

And sure enough, we kissed underneath it - a nice lovely end to the New Year 2025 day, marking a fresh new year.

The funny thing is that we kept doing it every time we bumped into each other in the hallway with the mistletoe.

Sometime after that, we just started to try meeting each other every night in VRChat with friends until he asked me out on a date a few days later. I honestly did not expect it.

Now, I know what y'all are thinking: Isn't virtual reality different from real world problems? Shouldn't we be dating in real life?

The answer to that would be - we are dating in real life. It's just long distance.

Without giving away information, we live in different states, but he's not far from my time zone. We've called plenty of times on discord and been on webcam, exchanging photos and videos along the way, so we know we're both real to each other. We're able to communicate when we can despite having different schedules, but we make due with what we've got because we care about each other.

The next question is probably: Aren't things moving too fast for you two?

That answer is much more complicated because it honestly depends upon the nature between two individual human beings, and each human being has their own unique mindset. This sounds like an excuse, but it's reality's truth that no one has a right to dictate other people's relationships and how fast or slow it goes. That puts pressure on said couples, you know? I feel like people put what their ideal relationships are onto people way too much and expect others to align to their worldview about it.

I will say that we somehow quickly became boyfriend and girlfriend after a few talks and revelations, especially at a friend's birthday party, which was around less than 2 weeks after Butcher and I first met. (My bad, bro. That was a sick party, though.) There's been obstacles, sure, like every relationship in the world, but we've learned and continue to learn in overcoming those obstacles, supporting each other. (I think what also helps is that he and I are both Cancers, so we're naturally inclined to love and support each other so quickly, receiving what the other is giving.)

In my personal life, most of my friends and my sister knows that I have a boyfriend. My parents don't yet, though I keep dropping his name in conversations every now and then to get them familiar with who I've been talking to and hanging out with online or on the phone.

...I genuinely love him. And I know he genuinely loves me - hell, he was the first to say "I love you" by accident at that friend's birthday party. (Again, Darkness, my friend, awesome party.)

We're going at our own pace, which is steady yet thrilling at the same time.

And with this vague recollection of events (because in the end, I think I'll keep all the specifics to myself... maybe if this relationship lasts long enough for an anniversary to happen, I might reveal the specific story next year), I'll leave any reader perusing this with a song that was released on the day my boyfriend and I got together officially, which perfectly aligns with how I feel about him.

Enjoy~!

P.S.: Based on the list in the previous blog, yes, my boyfriend ticks off nearly all the boxes, but that's still good enough for me. <(^_^)> He's worth giving my heart to, both in real life and in my sweet dreams.