TW: This story mentions sexual abuse but doesn’t go into any details.
I first met Trish when I was finishing high school. She transferred to my school and didn’t have any friends. She was a chubby gamer girl and I was a skinny gamer nerd so we instantly got along well.
We both finished high school and kept hanging out together. Most days of the week Trish would come over to my house and we would just game together. It’s probably no surprise that my feelings for Trish grew and I wanted her to be my girlfriend.
I took Trish out on cheap dates since that’s all I could have afforded at the time. We would walk to a coffee shop, split some waffles and then go chill in the park. We spent a lot of time together, it seemed like Trish was always around.
I got into a university a few hours away from our hometown so I decided to take a risk and asked Trish to move to the university together, as boyfriend and girlfriend. She immediately said yes and asked why it took me so long to ask her to out.