This story involves one of the first friends I met, named Layla. We both met at a college orientation, in January, and we became good friends, despite many differences, as I am a staunch conservative type who voted for Bush (this was in January of 2005 when we met) and her a bleeding heart hippie liberal. We were students at Temple U, and I lived at home and she was moving into a dorm.
As this was January, the orientation sessions were a lot less crowded than a standard one (we'd started at different schools in August of 04 but we had transferred to Temple for January 05). So that gave us a great opportunity to talk and meet.
After that, I offered to show her around Philly as she was from New York and had never been to Philly before. We also went to dinner and such a few times, and I did try to get a relationship but Layla wanted to just be friends, and I understood. I did kiss her goodbye on the cheek a few times and that's how far we went with each other.
We hung out a few times, and that was it. She did tell me she would be moving into an apartment off-campus so I offered to help her find things when she would return to Philly in August.
Fast forward to August of 2005, Layla and I met up for lunch, and then shopped for various items at an IKEA for her new apartment. I'd lost a few pounds over the summer, and she commented on how great I was looking! Now, admittedly, I'd seen Layla in nothing less than winter clothes for the most part, but as it was summer, she appeared in a sexy summer dress. We took the stuff back to her place, and I assembled it for her, and by the end of the day, her little apartment looked like a home.