They Met At Camp Then Drifted Apart. 4 Years Later, He’s Seconds From Death – And The Phone Rings

When Kevin Walsh was 13 years old he went to summer camp. Nothing much out of the ordinary happened that summer.

Well, one important thing happened, but Kevin never knew how important until several years later.

While at camp he met a girl named Blake that he thought was the prettiest girl he’d ever met.

Kevin was secretly crushing on Blake when one day she stopped him and said “Black is a good color on you.”

He couldn’t believe she’d noticed him. He says now with a smile that he remembers that he was so excited his heart almost stopped…ah, young love.

Five years later his heart would almost stop again. But, this time Blake would be the one who kept it going.

They became very good friends over those summer weeks. When the summer ended they exchanged contact information and kept in touch via instant messenger.

After a while, as childhood friendships are prone to do, their calls and letters dwindled away to almost nothing. Kevin focused on school and tried to forget the prettiest girl he’d ever seen.

High school isn’t easy on anyone and it was particularly hard on Kevin. One day he decided he just couldn’t take it any more.

He wrote out a suicide note and began preparations to slit his wrists and end his pain. He says now that not a day went by after he met Blake that he did not think of her.

And when he thought of her at that dark moment, he regretted that he had let their friendship slip away. At that point it had been a year since they’d talked.

Just before he opened his wrist with that knife his phone vibrated in his pocket. It was a number he didn’t recognize, but something made him stop and take the call.

He will forever be grateful that he did. It was Blake. Calling out of the blue.

She asked him how he was doing, and after taking a deep breath he told her, the whole truth about his plans.

A very horrified Blake, realizing how close she had come to losing her friend, made  him promise he wouldn’t do anything stupid.

And he didn’t. While he’d been telling her about all his teenage angst he realized that  things weren’t really all that bad. Certainly nothing was wrong that was worth dying over.

They talked a long while, and ended the conversation with Blake ordering him to call her the next day. Kevin remembers thinking that he hadn’t planned on having a next day.

But suddenly he realized he wanted the next one and all the ones after that. And he wanted to share them with Blake.

That night, instead of composing his suicide note, he sat down and wrote a letter to Blake, which would come into play later.

Their friendship didn’t burst into flames right away. They talked a lot more often and made plans to see each other frequently.

Eventually they both realized that the bond they shared was something very special, something definitely out of the ordinary.

Over the next few years they began dating seriously, and nine years later Kevin proposed to her.

He told her he loved her, then he thanked her for saving his life. Then he read the words he had written on that fateful night almost a decade earlier on what had started out as the darkest night of his life.

Soon they will be celebrating their first year anniversary. Both of them are forever grateful for whatever invisible string kept them pulled together and caused Blake to call Kevin at just the right moment.

It’s not totally uncommon for childhood friends to fall in love and get married, but very few of these couples have the added bond that one of them saved the other’s life.

As Kevin said in a Facebook post, soon after their wedding:

“My first crush called me out of the blue at exactly the right moment to prevent my suicide, and then I married her a decade later.“

That, I am willing to bet, goes beyond being “uncommon” and is in the realm of a “fairy tale romance.”

We’re hoping that just like in the fairy tales they live happily (and healthily) ever after.

Source: Good News Network