At 6, I Promised My Best Friend We’d Go to Prom Together — 12 Years Later, Mom Said I Could Go With Him Only on ONE Condition Ethan became my best friend in first grade after we discovered we both hated raisins and loved dinosaurs.

“Then you marry him.”

The entire table started giggling.

Later, Ethan found me after class.

He looked unusually serious.

“Sophie?”

“What?”

“Would you love me?”

I was six.

That felt like an extremely complicated question.

“Maybe.”

His whole face brightened.

“Really?”

“Maybe.”

Then I remembered something my older cousin had told me.