When I met JB I had actually been celibate for two years,
so that's why I wasn't interested in the cat-call
in the restaurant.
I was like, what does he want?
Like, what is this?
I went out with him.
And I could feel like just like right away
everything that was happening in the date.
I felt like this is not just like, oh my God,
this is the man for the rest of my life.
But I knew he was a man.
And I'm like this is what I would want for myself.
So it wasn't like, this is my husband.
It wasn't that.
It was like, you know, this is what I
would want as a man in my life.
We actually weren't intimate for five months
into the relationship.
So like at that point, I was like,
you're my man, because now we didn't cross over the border
like-- you know what I'm saying?
Things that we crossed the line.
I'm going to put some money on that layaway.
You know what?
I made him wait three months.
Yeah.
- For a kiss. - Yeah.
Like, so we would kiss on the cheek.
We would get close.
But like, I was like, I don't want
you to think that I'm easy in any type of way,
because I'm not.
And I want you to understand that this is genuine.
And because we're friends, like, I really just want to--
I cherished our friendship and what we had.
So I really wanted him to know like that we can go slow.
Like, if we're going to be together,
we're going to be together.
We have more than enough time to kiss.
So I kind of kept that like, no, not yet.
Now, let me tell you--
Now, he would walk me to my door, like very gentlemen,
you know?
Yeah, walk up to the door, all that stuff.
And you expect-- I mean, usually, it's kiss time.
I mean, not going on on all the time, you know?
And so-- but what was dope about this
though it was what she did was like-- it
was the romantic chase.
Like, I'm like, madam, you know what I mean?
So it almost felt like that.
But in my world, that just gave me like, oh, this woman is--
this is really different, you know what I mean?
I'm just-- I'm fighting for a kiss right now.
I didn't feel the pressure of having to like get her, or make
some decision to be like, yes or no, because we're in Princeton.
We got this play going on.
It's just me and her, and our other castmates.
It's like, we ain't going nowhere.
It's wintertime.
I was like, hey, I got time.
I don't have to--
I don't have to push this.
I don't put the pedal to the metal.
I can just wait. Let's see what happens.
Let's just let it breathe. - Right.
And that sort of free space we fell madly in
love very quickly.
You know, I prayed diligently about it.
And I really believe you know, I heard from God about it.
And it was-- what I heard was like, hey, just be friends.
And so there was that like root conflict
right there, because I felt that I had heard one thing from God,
but we were just falling deeper and deeper in love.
I asked my mom actually, I was like,
what do you think about Robert?
And it almost seemed like she was waiting for me
to ask the question, because she was like, I
really like him for you.
And I think she realized that we had
that foundation of friendship.
You know, my mom knows that-- and our family
were really big with sense of being funny,
and not taking ourselves seriously.
And Robert was like that.
So I think she noticed that that was a big deal for me.
And I was glad that my mom mentioned
it, because I had friends who--
and I think they meant well--
but the idea was for a lot of my friends
is, you should find someone who's
much more established, right, who can
pay that hot bill, who can--
maybe that's-- maybe that's an understandable--
Yeah.
[LAUGHING]
That could pay that hot bill.
That is an understandable expectation.
Yes, we finally kissed.
The kiss was really, really nice.
It was magical.
And we did the kiss.
And then after the kiss, I guess I went home and made this song.
But I was into that.
Like, I was into like--
I would write songs.
And I've been doing that for years, and poetry and stuff.
And so it's a good way to express yourself,
you know, however you're feeling.
And I was just like, all right, I'm going to write her a song,
you know what I mean?
It was called, "More Than a Friend," right?
And so I was like (SINGING) more than a friend.
I kissed her last night.
Now we are more than a friend.
I kissed her last night, something like that.
It was a whole verse.
The beat was hard.
I had a whole verse, a hook, and music, and the whole nine.
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