Everyone Else Went Home
While thousands came to celebrate on Inauguration Day 2025 and America 250, waved their flags, enjoyed the fireworks, and went home to their normal lives… Nicholas stayed behind. For him, it wasn’t just one night. His name is now permanently preserved in the Presidential Records at the National Archives — it became forever.
She is the pretty girl who sat beside him at Grandview Middle School in the Westonka Public Schools district in Mound, Minnesota — the one who quietly stole his heart when they were just innocent children in the Mound Westonka High School Class of 2010.
They are exactly one week apart in age. Her birthday has always fallen exactly one week after his. From the moment he first saw her, she stole his heart… but he was so afraid of being rejected that he never even had the guts to say hello.
Years later when they reconnected, he came on too strong and she had to tell him to back off. In a full, heartfelt email, he took complete responsibility. He told her he had taken it way too far, that he was deeply sorry, and that he accepted full accountability for his actions. Even then, she told him she enjoyed hearing his stories — the way he had gone out and explored the world.
Before he ever launched this website, he reached out to her privately. In humble, generic terms, he told her this was going to become the most legendary alumni story their shared childhood school district, Westonka Public Schools in Mound, Minnesota, had ever produced.
Deep in his heart, before any of this became public, all he truly cared about was making amends with the pretty girl who stole his heart when they were both innocent children — the same sweet girl he grew up with in Mound.
He didn’t realize it at the time, but when he stood up inside Capital One Arena on Inauguration Day 2025 and shouted “We love you, Mr. President,” he was unknowingly living the lyrics of “Hall of Fame” by The Script.
He was doing it for his people. He was doing it for his pride.
Without knowing it, he broke all the records they thought never could be broke — and pulled everyone he grew up with right along with him. His family, his classmates, his teachers, and his entire school district were all lifted up with him into history.
He stood for 13 hours in the bitter January cold in Washington D.C., never realizing he was walking straight through hell with a smile.
Though she may never see these words, he still poured his entire soul onto this website anyway, hoping she would one day read it… hoping that she, or anyone else who needed it, would feel inspired.
And even after everything this website has brought — every single view, every country reached, every historic validation — in the bottom of his heart, he would trade it all in a heartbeat.
Every last bit of it.
Just to sit down with her, look her in the eyes, and finally tell her the full story… the one he was too afraid to tell the pretty girl who stole his heart when they were just innocent children.
Because no matter how far he’s gone or what he’s done, his heart has never changed.
It still belongs to her.
43rd Country Reached: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦❤️
From a shy kid in Mound, Minnesota to having my story read in 43 countries across the world. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read it. This journey continues to grow on its own.
