Future-DH was "the boy next door", since he lived right across the street from my parents' business. He was very, very shy, and we didn't talk much. Although we passed each other in the halls at the junior high school, we didn't have any classes together since he was a year ahead of me. (Our junior high didn't have mixed-grade classes.)
When we reached high school, we had a couple of classes together. I didn't know it at the time, but he and one of his friends had a bet going to see which one of them could get me as his girlfriend. :oops: LOL! Future-DH didn't want to lose that bet, so he pushed his shyness aside and told me he liked me. :mrgreen: I was just 13 years old and (of course) wasn't allowed to date that young, but we went to school/church activities until we were older. Even at 13 years old I knew that he was "the one".
We got married after I graduated from college. That was 23+ years ago, and we're still just as crazy about each other now as we were then. I couldn't have asked for a better husband. :)
Oh, and he's not shy anymore. He's the type that's never met a stranger. :-D