So there I was…

DREW: …rushing Phi Mu Alpha and we were bowling. I was bowling with a few of the guys, and then she walked in. The first thing I noticed was that she had a wrist and knee braces on. She was banged up from something. I thought, “Well this girl must get hurt as much as I do.” Then I noticed how incredibly beautiful she was. I thought somewhere in the back of my mind, “That’s the girl I’m gonna marry.” Her boyfriend at the time introduced us so I managed to just talk to her casually. A while later my friend Jake had been shot and our friend Tony told her about it. She came to me and said she wanted to help. If it wasn’t for her I don’t think I would have gotten through it and be who I am now. We started talking, playing Frisbee golf, etc. She came over, one time, while we were watching movies and Tony and I were playing chess. I put my arm around her and didn’t want to take it away so I ended up playing chess with my toes. Later, we all left for the summer and I wrote her letters when she went to New Mexico, but we still didn’t date seriously. We were always friends though. The start of this past year I began to complain about being single to my friends and Mel tipped me off that she could still be interested. So we met up at the bar where she works and began, again, the routine of getting her to date me. Later, she was waiting for a friend in the commons and invited me to sit down and we caught up from the past summer. I asked her if she wanted to go back to my apartment and watch Faulty Towers, and from there she was hooked on my charm and love of ridiculous English comedy. I finally knew that the thing in the back of my head was the truth, “That’s the girl I’m gonna marry.” At Christmas she came to meet my family and after New Years I gave her a ring that I had bought at Disney World. When I presented it to her we had been talking about getting married, and so I just asked her.

DEB: …walking into the loud, Hautian bowling alley with all the members and rushees of Phi Mu Alpha and Sigma Alpha Iota. I was excited about meeting the new people that were going to be in my direct line of socialization, but it didn’t mean I was rushing anything. I had been practicing and playing basketball a little too hard that past week so I was bandaged/restricted pretty heavily. I gimped along to shake hands with all the new members, and there was Drew. I knew Tony had taken to him, and knew we were going to get to know each other well. Soon, I figured, we’d all be hanging out and playing games, acting silly together. “He seemed like a nice enough guy,” I thought. Anything else went by the wayside because I was in another relationship at the time. But I was caught by that goofy but stylish smile of his. I couldn’t stop staring and thinking, “How cute!” I was right about us though, soon we were playing cards and doing all the crazy activities that Tony liked to do. I remember when Jake died. I knew exactly how he felt because a few months before that a kid I knew from high school was killed in a drunk driving accident. His Facebook profile was to forever entombed with his memory, and everyone left messages about what he

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