Lyta's POV:

We met in 2017...2018? No definitely 2017 or 2016. The year is a little fuzzy only because we were just friends. We met through our mutual friend Johnny when we all started having calls on discord together. I went to Dylan's 20th birthday party at none other than Buffalo Wild Wings and I believe that was the first time Dylan and I had met in person. I would go to shows for their band Levitated and Dylan and I would talk and we became closer friends. Then I moved to Colorado in 2018 with Johnny. The day after my 20th birthday. Our friendship would continue online and then Dylan, Corey, Natalie, and Kyle came to visit us in Colorado in 2019! Second time Dylan and I had hung out in person. It was such a fun trip, and I remember thinking "Wow this Dylan guy is pretty cute, but I don't know. Maybe in another lifetime.". Our threads weren't at the point where they conjoined in our timeline yet.

Time went on. The pandemic happened, I got furloughed from work since all elective procedures were cancelled during that time, and unfortunately Dylan also got furloughed. Through the pandemic Dylan and I would spend long days on discord playing Cyberpunk side by side but 1,000 miles away. We started to actually call each other good friends.

Corey and Natalie always had a plan to move to Colorado, so when they finally moved in March of 2022, Dylan came with them to help them move! Then he came back again in October of 2022. Then finally, I needed a roommate. Dylan and I had been friends for a while and he had expressed a few times he would consider moving to Colorado. So I figured, the worst that could happen was Dylan could say no. So I asked Dylan if he wanted to move to Colorado to live with me as a roommate. He took some time to think about it, and he said yes! Dylan moved to Colorado in April of 2023. Jack drove with him and helped Dylan move all his stuff in. It was great. Dylan and I would go to the gym together, run errands together, grab food, and just be out and about. What started out as friendship with a slight crush, for me, slowly turned to "Oh no...I have feelings for this guy. I'm in trouble." So I did what any sane female roommate would do. I shoved it down. Shoved it aside, tried to ignore it, kept telling myself "It'll pass, it'll pass". (Spoiler alert: it did NOT pass). We were flirting with each other, let's be so real. We were flirting HARD. But didn't broach the subject of "So like...is this? Are you feeling what I'm feeling?". We went to the movies one night with Corey and Natalie and when Dylan and I got back to the apartment, we both confessed. We came clean. I felt like a kid in high school, the butterflies were unreal. We were casually dating and testing the waters, and TOLD NO ONE until we were sure. August 5th, 2023, we were sure. I was crazy about this guy. I remember having the thought a little bit after we were official, "It's him. I know it's him. I know it in my bones". I felt it so viscerally, that Dylan's my guy. At that time, I also thought: "well I am also a little crazy so maybe i'm wrong.". But I was right. Our relationship has taught me what love is supposed to look like, what it's supposed to feel like. I have never loved or felt loved, like this before. I've never been more sure.