When Lyla walks into the coffee shop that morning Jenna was waiting there, two drinks in front of her.

"Morning"

"Mornin', what have you made this time?"

"Well your usual and my favorite, we have time before the rush comes in."

"Alright..." the nervousness comes back to her, giving her the feeling that she's about to throw up, a feeling that she's known since, possibly the dawn of her existence.

The two grab their own drink, Jenna trying desperately to move her hand so it wouldn't touch the others. After that moment of panic they sat at the girl's usual table which was right across from where they just were.

"Lyla, I have a question..." The girl looks up, the straw stuck on one of her canine teeth.

"Yeah what is it?"

"I've been looking through some old things and I was just wondering if you'd recognize this. I feel like we've met before..."

"How would I know if..." The comedian trails off.

Jenna holds up her phone to the other, it was a photo that she kept of the two of them, Ali, Denise, and Raine in the eighth grade, it was just before they quarantined for the rest of the weeks that led up to winter break at the end of 2020.

"I- Jenna, how do you have this?"

"It's been in my phone forever and you remind me of the girl from the photo."

"That's because that girl is me."

"What?"

"That's me in that photo-" Lyla pulls out her own phone, goes into her photos app and scrolls for a while. Nine years must have a lot of things in them. The girl stops on a picture after scrolling for what seemed like centuries and opens it, it was the exact same one. "I was the one without the mask because I hated them."

"Oh I remember fully, when you would rant about them being uncomfortable at the start of that year."

"So glad that's over now."

"Yep."

"Well it's great that I found you again."

"Same here."

Both of them smile and catch up for the rest of the hour, finally settling on that Jenna would come over to the apartment and they'd hang out.

"So I'll text you my address alright." Lyla grabs her messenger bag before putting some cash in front of the other. "Thanks for the iced coffee."

"You're welcome." And with that the dirty blonde haired girl leaves, letting the moments drip like honey in the back of the coffee shop worker's throat. Her mind flashes through the different memories until it lands on one that was in April of 2021, they were in online school because that's what the school board decided to do.

It was also the time that Lyla confessed for the third time, or that's at least maybe what she remembers. This time was different than just your "oh I'm sorry, I don't see you in that way." type thing, this time she might've actually had feelings for her. But she wasn't sure of them at the time.

Lyla tried to help but it was just too much, mentally and emotionally. Finally she decided to take a break from the other, they had sent very sappy letters the night that they took a break.

From what she remembers, Lyla was crying hard and was blaming herself for it as she usually would. One of the last regards she had was that she loves her.

Now tears were pricking the girl's eyes from remembering the time, but she had to take a break, lose the feelings and only take the step of loving the other as a friend, it was hard but it was needed.

After then she doesn't remember what happened and then the girl moved, just a few days after her birthday, and for the next nine years she's been laughing with her other friends, getting work done, and finally moving to New York to attend school.

But deep down, she doesn't know how deep, but deep in her heart, she still loves her and she, probably, always will.