Jump back to two years ago- December 7, 1998 to be exact. I am a puny little seventh grader, doing my homework after school like a good little girl and watching TV. The Movie Channel is on, and a movie I watching has just ended. I'm stuck on a science worksheet, and don't feel like getting up, so I wait for the next movie to come on. It's that X-Files movie. I don't bother changing the channel since I'm too lazy--I've never really cared for the show. I've always thought science fiction/ alien stuff was stupid. The movie starts, and I'm not really paying attention to it, but then I see some cave man dude get attacked by this alien-creature type thing. I drop my pencil and begin to watch. By the time the bomb has exploded in Dallas, the film has lost my interest. I shut the TV off and finish my homework.

Several days later, I have a sudden urge to watch the whole movie. I think it's because I want to see what happens, and something just gets me about the unresolved sexual tension and chemistry between the two FBI agents, Mulder and Scully. I watcht the movie and enjoy it, but I get mad when the bee stings Scully in the hallway scene. They would've kissed if it wasn't for that little bastard!

After the movie is over, I run upstairs to my room and search through all my magazines for X-Files pictures. I find a few and hang them up on my bulletin board. This show isn't so bad after all, I think to myself. I hope that Mulder and Scully will get together. That Sunday night, I watch my first X-Files episode ("The Ghosts Who Stole Christmas") at 9 PM on FOX. "That epsiode was awesome last night! I wish I'd taped it!" I tell my friends the next morning in school. When I come home from school Monday, I record the movie off TV so I can watch it again and again.

Christmas comes a few weeks later, and I get alot of X-Files stuff, since it took up the majority of my Christmas list. I go on the Web at a friend's house (I didn't have the internet then, now I can't live without it) and print out a bunch of X-Files websites I find. After reading for a while, I learnt that I'm the type of fan they call a "Relationshipper" ("shipper" for short), someone who wants Mulder and Scully to get romantically involved and become a couple. Thus begins my obsession.

Over the next year, I become more and more involved with the show, memorizing episode names, taping every episode and buying them so I can catch up on earlier seasons, and joining the Official Fan Club. Today, I'm more obsessed than ever before. All hail X-Files!