Last night was the Halloween party. Christen and I dressed as matching school girls. I haven’t laughed that hard in a very long time. Jeff had come to visit at the last minute to get some attention, which I was glad to give. After the parties we came home, I was enjoying so deeply having him around.

I got up the nerve to ask him to be my boyfriend. It was as if I had regressed 10 years, back to early high school. My vocabulary cut in half, shaking and nervous… All my rules out the window, I jumped in headlong.