I finally Realized

For years my neighbor was always nice to me and tried to become friends with me. We became neighbors just before I went to college, he was already there and 2 years ahead of me. But he was a nerd or geek, I was a cheerleader in high school and so didn't get close as friendship with him. Mainly for my personal image, anyway I graduated and went to start my career. Suddenly my good looks weren't as good as high scores in exams, also there were at least 7 others for every job and the person with the better score always got the job. My neighbor still lived with his widowed mother and I with my parents also. My mother was great friends with his mother, he had a great job in my chosen career path. He was head hunted for the company due to his very high scores in exams. Still was very polite with me every time we would meet but had given up trying to date me. I got by working low paid jobs and tried for every vacancy in my chosen career that came up. But each year more hopefuls graduated, and my chance faded even more. Finally, my mother told there was a vacancy in my career path, and it wasn't yet advertised. It was an assistant to a top person in the career. My neighbor's assistant was leaving to marry and move interstate afterwards, my mother knew because her friend (neighbor) mentioned it. My mother told me just in case I still wanted to try to fulfill my dream as she called it. But at first, I thought waste of time applying and a casual meeting with my neighbor and his mother at the mall. He was polite and show genuine interest in me, which sparked a little hope I might just have a faint chance with the job as his assistant. He never tried to ask me out, having long given up doing that. Later on, that Saturday, I decided to ask him about the job I visited his mother with a book my mother told me to give her on hearing I was going to visit the neighbor. At first, he wasn't around, I gave his mother the book and was about to go home. when he came into the kitchen where I was with his mother. Taking the chance, I asked about the job mainly did I've chance in getting it. He said I did and added he would choose his assistant as he wanted someone he was relaxed with. Adding it 6 months with his previous assistant, but he was relaxed with me we had known each for years being neighbors. I went to the company HR to apply for the job as assistant, they were surprised I knew about it as it wasn't yet advertised. I said I was his neighbor, and we had known each other for years. The manager of HR rang him asked did he want me as his assistant and he must have said yes as I got the job. The manager Told me to start the following Monday and learn from his outing assistant in her last month with the company. Another benefit with my new job was getting to and from work, I travelled with my neighbor as he was picked up and delivered back each day by company car. He can drive but the company prefers the company car for senior people comings and goings. After a month I was solo as his assistant and attended the wedding of his previous assistant as the date of my neighbor. Several months later I finally realized I enjoyed being with him and started actually dating him, not just for company functions. After another couple months we became lovers and a year later married, I finally moved out of home to live next door with husband and his mother. I quickly got pregnant much to the delight of my parents and mother-in-law. My only regret was how long I wasted in our relationship, by not dating him earlier.