Thursday, September 3, 2009
Seven years ago, Katie Hastings was known as the college girl who dated a sophomore in high school.
Hastings, 26-year-old Dallas junior, started dating an acquaintance of Peter Lewis, 23-year-old Dallas senior, when she was a student at the University of North Texas and he went to a high school in Dallas.
But when her boyfriend broke up with her, Hastings confided in Lewis, who had also been recently tossed aside by his girlfriend.
“Everyone was sick of hearing us complain, so they told us to go bitch to each other,” says Hastings. The bitching and whining resulted in a strong friendship and later led to something more.
In 2005, Hastings started to have dreams about kissing Lewis. She didn’t understand them at the time, but then everything started to make sense when Peter randomly kissed her at a friend’s house.
The rest is history. In 2006 they moved to Lawrence and have been together ever since. They say that they’ve never had any serious arguments, the only problem they have is accidentally wearing the same shirts on the same day.
This summer, Lewis asked Hastings to marry him. The day he purchased the ring, he took a picture of it and uploaded the picture onto the background of Hastings’ computer.
“When I first saw it, it took me a second to figure out what was going on. Then I turned around, and I saw Peter standing there with the ring in his hand,” says Hastings.
With their broken hearts mended, Peter and Katie will tie the knot June 27, 2010.
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