Chris and I first met in 2005 on my first day of freshman year and his sophomore year of high school. The previous year, Chris had just moved to the same neighborhood that I grew up in so we took the same bus and we were also assigned to the same English class. We sat next to each other due to familiarity of faces but we grew to be fast friends, and even dated for one whole week spring freshman year. But I ultimately decided he was not the guy for me so we went back to being just friends. We stayed friends for several years, but life became busy and so other than the few hello's throughout the years we weren't in touch much. However one time we reached out to say hi, we just reconnected and continued talking and we stayed in touch. We started talking more and more frequently throughout the years. When I moved back from Boston in 2019, we began to spend more time together until our relationship grew to what it is today.