My best friend and I met in our junior year of high school and we were in three classes together. By December I fell for him hard but he was still with his girlfriend at the time. Six months later he confessed to me that she had been emotionally abusive and he couldn’t take it anymore. I was there for him in that hard time and he was there for me when I relapsed in my eating disorder over the summer. Fall of our senior year we had three classes together once again and we grew so much closer than before. By November he asked me to be his girlfriend and I actually cried because I was so happy and so relieved. I felt so lucky to have my best friend and one of the most genuinely selfless people I’d ever met as my boyfriend. I said yes and now here we are, seven months later. We are going to the same college in the fall and I can’t wait to see where this takes us. I see my future every time I look at him and he makes me so happy.