College & Romance

“we need to talk” Erin said coming into my room and shutting the door behind her

“uh…okay?” I replied “what’s up?” I asked then she sat on the edge of my bed

“Mandy and I agree that you need to ask Spence on a date” she told me

“Erin I…” I started

“…you what? are showing a complete lack of effort? Yeah we noticed” she said and I laughed a little

“look we’re talking again…isn’t that a start?”

“did you tell her you’re going to LA?” she asked

“uh…not yet” I told her

“it’s been a week and you haven’t told her? You realize her reaction is going to be a hundred times worse the longer you wait…” she told me “…I mean what are you waiting for?”

“it’s really complicated” I told her “you know I wanted to marry her, or I would have married her, but I keep looking at the bigger picture and we’re both going in totally different directions”

“do you love her?” she asked me

“more than anything” I replied

“well…I think if you love each other enough then the distance doesn’t matter, and honestly knowing both of you I think you’ll work out”

“we didn’t before”

“yeah and you both needed to grow up…maybe this time you’ll look beyond the jealousy and just realize you’re meant to be together, probably forever” she said “just my thoughts”” she added before walking out of my room then I sat there letting what she said run through my head again so I could think about it, then I got off of my bed and went over to Spencer’s room and she was sitting on her bed

“knock, knock” I said tapping on her door

“oh hey” she said looking up and smiling at me “what’s up?” she asked

“uh not a lot…just hanging out I guess” I told her

“yeah me too” she replied “oh hey look at this picture I found” she added then I went over by her and took the picture out of her hand and it was one of us from Freshmen year and I was stuffing cake in her mouth then she was wiping it on my face

“wow” I replied “this was frosh year huh?”