what's the story of you & your boyfriend?
During our first year of college, G & I would hang around the same spots, and we noticed each other, but never spoke.
In our second year, I went see my friends’ band play at what I later found out was G’s house. I started hanging around there. I got dumped & then made out with his roommate. We left for winter break.
When we came back to school, the roommate & I got bored of making out & I got back together with the boy who’d dumped me.
Meanwhile, early that spring, G broke up with his gf. He & I went to an entomology festival together at school. We drank beer & listened to the strokes’ new album. We bought tickets to see Joanna Newsom together & the promise of our platonic friendship made me happy & relieved. One time we were drunk & he kissed my head.
Then-boyfriend was gone for 6 weeks playing shows & I grew sadder by the day about him. He came back home & we broke up. This is an unjust summarization of what took about a month to actualize.
G & I continued our friendship. We drank a lot of gin together. We found a pair of matching shoes at goodwill & wore them to our friends’ houses. Our first kiss happened sleepily one night after we’d watched Boyz in the Hood. He told me I was the first stranger he ever had a crush on. I thought that was ridiculous. I told him I couldn’t date him yet, but that I liked him.
Then summer started, and G went to Paris with his brother. When he came back, we kissed some more and we saw each other almost every day. We cooked, & we watched Gordon Ramsay shows, & we took trips to the woods & the beach. By the end of June, we’d run out of excuses & he asked me if I wanted to be his girlfriend yet. I laughed at him & said I did.
