“I meant to say Sophia…Hi, I am Marina but you can call me dork” I laughed.

I shook her hand.

The next class, we got with our partners.

“Hey Grey” I said.

“Hi Marina, why do you call me that? What Grey?” Sophia asked.

“Because of your eyes, they are the first thing I noticed about you and when I think about you Grey is the first thing that comes to mind”

“Oh! You think about me…” she said in a sing song voice and she slapped my arm.

“Shut up” I told her.

“Ladies!” said the professor.

Shortly after that, we hung out after class.

The next semester I saw her in the hallway. We had lunch and talked about our course load. I asked her out to dinner, I went to her house to pick her up.

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Lil came in the kitchen

“Hey, where were you just now?” she asked.

She cut the water off and poured some peroxide on Marina’s hand.

“Damn, I hissed out. I was remembering my first date with Sophia” said Marina.

“Yea before you showed up, she kept changing clothes saying she had nothing to wear. I said he must be quite a catch for you to go through all that and she had this huge grin when she turned around and said “it is a girl…”. I spit my coke all over her bed. She sat at the mirror telling me how funny you were and that you guys were friends and she was nervous that this date would mess it up”

“When I knocked on your door I was so nervous. I really liked her and wanted the date to go well” Marina said, “we were so happy. I remember the day she found out about your mom and the illness that took her from you guys. I came over and she was crying, telling me that we were over. I looked at her like she had lost her mind. I got mad and would not let her leave the room. That was the first time she looked at me with fear in her eyes. She locked her self in the bathroom. I bang on the door and demanded that she let me in. She told me through the door that she could lose her mind like your mom and that she could not let me see her like that. I kicked the door in and held her”