Flashback. Last Semester. First day of Freshman orientation. She sat down in the chapel for the president's speech. A tall brown eyed, brown haired guy sat next to her. "Hi, I'm Kyle." "I'm Grace." "Nice to meet you Grace." The president's speech was given and Grace and Kyle shook hands and went separate ways. Only to bump into each other in Grace's dorm.
"Hi." Kyle said. "Hi." Grace answered. "You want cake? I have some that I know I won't finish by myself." Grace's birthday was that day and she had gotten a cake from her parents some club on campus made when people ordered it.
"Sure." Kyle answered.
Grace cut some cake and she and Kyle talked and talked and talked. They bumped into eachother at the opening ceremonies at the church across the street.
They bumped into eachother several times. Then the night of homecoming dance came. Grace was coming back to her dorm room from working on the set. Kyle was just walking out of Frimmels from talking to another friend of his.
"Hey Grace I see you."
"I see you too." Grace said a little hesitantly
"Will I see you at the dance?"
"I don't know if I'll be there."
"Please?"
"I don't know."
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Grace went and called her parents until her friend Ryan came in (she had her door open). "Why aren't you dressed. Go get the girls to do your hair. Come on."

"Ryan, I'm not sure I'm going."

"Yes you are."
"Ok. ok." Grace pulled out her dress."Now I'll get changed so just a minute."
Ryan walked out the door and Grace got changed. She walked to the location of the dance with a bunch of girls from her floor and was greeted by Ryan. He kept trying to teach her to dance. Kyle showed up and started talking to her. Grace kept trying to leave but Ryan wouldn't let her. "You should learn how to dance." "Why?"
Ryan and Grace "argued" for a long time. Grace finally left but was followed by Kyle who had been standing there listening to her argue with Ryan.
"You want to take a walk to wind down?" Kyle asked.
"No I just want to go to bed." Grace said frustrated.
"Well, I'll walk you back to your dorm then." Kyle said.
Grace was tired and frustrated. "Why?" She asked Kyle.
Then he said it. They hadn't known eachother two months, they had never been on one date, but he said it.
"Because I Love You."
Grace nearly freaked. They got to Frimmels. "Good night Kyle." Grace said.
"It's not midnight yet. Can I come in?"
"I'm just going to bed."
"Ok." Kyle said sounding defeated.
After that Grace avoided Kyle for a long time. To her the words "I Love You" were supposed to be said after a long time of knowing someone and after being at least 99 percent positive you wanted to marry them. The only issue with all this was that Grace had started to really like him and if he had just waited a little while longer and had asked her out instead of saying "I Love You" she probably would've dated him. But no. Here she was.
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And now it's January and he started dating Jade. Jade is Grace's best friend on campus so when Jade says "I'm going to dinner with Kyle, do you want to come?" Grace feels so weird and never says yes.
She and Kyle had talked this over during Christmas break and the first couple of weeks of the semester had been great. And then this touching of the hands and sitting way to close. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
She and Kyle had even talked about it over Christmas break. When she came back she thought she was ok. But this hand touching thing, sitting way to close. Oh man.This brought back those old emotions that she had had before the "three word incident" as she referred to it.
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That night Jade and Kyle gave Grace no choice but to go look at stars with them. She was miserable. Finally they all walked back into Frimmels. Grace went to her dorm room and got online. Jack was on. As much of a miserable mood she was in, she decided to say hi. For about an hour she and Jack talked. He sent funny pictures and winks. During that time Grace felt better. She couldn't stop laughing. Over the next few days Grace sent e-mails to Faith and talked to Jack online. She never told Jack about her issues with Kyle but every time she talked to him she felt better. Much better.
Grace and Kyle finally came some closure after talking and e-mailing.
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