Our story starts with our friendship at USF in 2011. The friendship started with Monica helping Michel review his Chemistry exam. Exam reviewing led to coffee study sessions; coffee led to driving Michel to the train station whenever he would need to head back to Orlando; drives led to phone calls; phone calls lasted longer as distance became a huge factor in our relationship once Monica moved to Boston. But as they say, distance made the heart grow fonder and our friendship became rock solid. We truly became the best of friends. We would tell each other about everything, including potential boyfriend/girlfriends. At all points of the friendship, one of us was in a relationship or the other was. But even while we were in other relationships, it never affected our friendship. We still put each other first. At one point, in 2016, we were suddenly both single at the same time. With the extra time we only grew closer and more fond of each other (not even realizing it was possible to become closer). On October 27th, 2017 Michel (finally) asked Monica to be his girlfriend (cue “awwwww”). From that moment we have continued to learn each other and love each other in a way we didn’t know love existed. Looking back, our friends always told us that there was something between us. We didn’t see it for ourselves, or maybe it just wasn’t time for our story to really start. Once it started though, everyone knew it was right. We’ve always been each others person to lean on, and now we get to be that person to each other for the rest of our lives. We wouldn’t want it to be any other way. Truly, best friends forever.