" I suppose." I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly while staring out the window. "But for now, I think I'll just focus on starting this next chapte... in my life. No longer a student. Full-time job. Back in the Bay Area. Most of my college friends are scattered all over the place. It's going to be a little weird starting all over again from scratch, you know?" You'll always have me."I glanced over and smiled at my little brother. "Of course. But you moved out to that big house Dad set you up. As he go into the driver side, I continued, "I didn't have time to getout of all the clothes and makeup from last night so Mom suggested Ijust go dressed like a girl so I didn't miss the game. I'm not a girl.This is the last time. I just had no time." Ok. But you could have removed it all last night thought. You hadtime then," he said."I was too tired. I just wanted to sleep," I said back."Sure. If you say so, babe. Whatever floats your boat," Michael saidwith a chuckle as he started the. Sureenough, there were two big tubs of ice cream. Vanilla fudge andstrawberry swirl. Both were seriously depleted. I drew the water andwalked back into the bedroom."Sure took you long enough," she said. "A girl could die of thirst."I took a sip of the water. "If you were in that much of a hurry, youcould have gone." I dipped two fingers in the water and flicked them ather."Yeah?" she said as she dipped her fingers in her glass and flickedthem at me."Oops," I said as I sloshed a small amount of. She came close to me and looked into my eyes. “Aren’t you going to pull?” I asked playfully. She searched my eyes in a way that was very different than ever before. My grip on the sheets loosened as we silently looked into each others’ eyes. I let the sheets go and stood up to face her. I searched her face for an answer to the butterflies I now had in my stomach. The anticipation turned mere seconds into minutes. Dhanaya and I silently faced each other. I wanted her to say it. Some time ago.