But like I said, I'm not referring to me and my siblings but to Shawn and his. Well, his relationship with his older brother Matt.....yesss the famous Matt Asiata ;).
After Shawn and I had begin 'talking' , whatever you want to call 'courting' when we were like 10 lol....
(na j/k, all I remember was I was still too young to have a boyfriend and I had not even planned on having one at the time lol) I was more aware of him and Matts relationship, and it was still very impressing. They pretty much shared identical interests from clothes, shoes, music, friends, sports, food, and even the undying love for Tongan girls ;) hahaha... As we got to that stage of being more 'serious' I was opened up even more to their brotherly love for one another. Just like all siblings, they had their differences but at the end of the day or even the end of the hour......like a couple........they kissed and made up (metaphorically speaking ;p) hahaha.
I knew they loved each other just like how I loved my sisters, that same bond, I could kind of relate to it, but it didn't quite feel the same because there's 7 years between my older sister and I, and then 6 years between my younger sister and I. So trying to relate to Shawn and Matts relationship of being just one year apart was not happening. I am a middle child and so NO ONE is close to me in age in my family.
It wasn't until both Shawn and Matt had moved out to Snow College for school and football that I saw it first hand....for the first time.
How do I put this...??
Something had happened with Shawn and an old friend of mine that had a crush on me before Shawn and I had ever happened......that friend wouldn't leave me alone so Shawn like any protective boyfriend would do, confronted him and eventually, not even needing to because we all knew Shawn could beat him up, called him out lol. Anyway, long story short...word got back to Matt and Matt (like any concerned older sibling) called me and asked me what was going on. I explained what had happened. After many attempts of trying to calm the situation, these were Matt's exact words to me:
"Leta, whether my brothers right or wrong in this, I got his back.....it's been us two since we were little and I'll throw down for him no matter what...."
I mean I'm sure there are many brothers like that out there. Shoot, I'd do the same thing for my sisters, but if you know my sisters you know I'd never be in this particular situations. I just thought it was kinda cute how Matt had Shawns back regardless! ;) Anyway, all that small drama ended up being nothing and things ended up cool.
Matt had moved back from Snow and was starting at the University of Utah. For me that. was. hell. because at least when Matt was out at Snow he could kind of watch over Shawn ya know, keep him on track? And anything Shawn would do that he shouldn't have been doing, Tangi would tell me. hahaha
But Shawn was alone out there. =( I had explained to him how I felt. I was in school here, working, and traveling nonstop doing shows at the time...just super busy with my own life but I had missed him so much. And after expressing how I felt almost every day Shawn ended up moving back to Salt Lake City after he finished up his semester. We had planned to just work on us and he'd just work. (not a smart idea to just leave school...oh how our young immature minds work lol) He worked....and man did I loooove that. lol... But then.... that came to and end {boooooo haha j/k} when Matt got hurt the second time at the U (i think that's right, I don't remember exactly which time). Shawn may kill me for this but it's all good.. ;) We had been talking about something, I don't even remember what it was but he asked me what I thought about him returning to school, and finishing school that way he could transfer to the U of U and walk on for football. (Let me just make one thing straight here, Shawn knew from day one that I supported him in football, I admired his love and effort he put forth for the sport but it wasn't the reason at all why I had fallen for him, why I was even interested in talking to him, and now, why I was deeply in love with him.) I thought him going back to school was the best thing I had heard in a looong time, as far as football, I kind of questioned it. I asked him why football?? And his exact words between crying and talking were:
"Babe...I hate seeing my brother like this, he needs me out there on the field. If I was out there to block for him by his side, he wouldn't be hurt sitting in the hospital...."
okay, I cried too. ;( I had no more questions of him returning to play after that comment. I mean, seriously...would you? I couldn't even believe what I just witnessed, I was so taken by their relationship and love for one another. There are waaaay more examples that I could give of the different acts I've seen of the two's relationship as siblings, but these two particular are the ones that stuck out to me the most.
It's like when one's feeling a certain emotion the other is feeling the exact same way. Deep inside I appreciate it....like I said before I absolutely adore their relationship as brothers, it's the cutest thing. Coolest thing is nothing has changed from when I met the two.... Even to this day Matt constantly has Shawn's back and Shawn in return will do anything...and I mean anything for Matt and his little family or vice versa. Whatever it is though they have this remarkable undying.......unbelievable.......unselfish love for each other and it's something I want my sons to have as well. If anything, having that close bond through out the years has definitely strengthened them in so many ways. It's always nice to see them leaning on each other for various things. Tangi and I have often talked and expressed our frustration with the two as far as them doing things for each other over us.... it's crazy but I can't complain, I wouldn't have it any other way. They put their girls where they belong yet manage to hold their own relationship and love each other as brothers to no end. =)
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