- Stop it.
- [Narrator] Friendship isn't a big thing.
It's being there.
It's having a hard conversation and being willing to listen.
- [Mai-Lynn Voiceover] Growing up it was very hard
to make friends and to feel like I fit in
because I was always the new person
and I didn't look like everybody because I was in Vietnam
in these international schools
but all the kids there were white
and so they were like we don't wanna be your friend
and I was like okay.
There were so many times where I wasn't allowed
to go to my friends houses because my mom was a single mom
of four and so people would be like
oh, my mom said you can't come
because they don't want me to end up like you
and your family and it was tough.
It was really tough.
- [Rita Voiceover] I grew up in Dominican Republic.
I was born and raised there until I was about 15 years old.
Then I moved to the states.
I think it Is hard for me to make intimate relationships,
intimate friendships, like to have a best friends,
to really trust someone.
That really goes back to when I was 15
before I moved to Dominican Republic,
my best friend passed away.
It was just really hard for me to make friendships
after that, you know?
How do you trust someone new?
- I had applied to colleges in New York
because that was my dream my whole life
was to get to New York.
I was very scared.
It's a very big city and everyone always says that like
either New York makes you or breaks you and I was like
what if it breaks me?
What does that even mean?
- I moved to New York for college.
- I feel like I went in very young and very naive
and very afraid and I left feeling very empowered.
My roommate, her name's Rita, she's really cool.
I'm gonna cry.
She just instantly made everything feel like home.
- I think it was the fact that she opened up to me.
Seeing that she wasn't afraid to show her life
and all the issues that she had with me
kind of made me feel more comfortable
of sharing my life with her.
- And I remember so many nights we would come home
and I would be sitting in bed eating ice cream.
- Just straight from the pint.
- We would just sit there and talk for hours about our days,
and these decisions we're making, and how we dig ourselves
out of these ruts.
- I think that Mai-Lynn took that place of that best friend
of mine that passed away.
- Rita I haven't seen in like years.
- I haven't seen her in like three years, three years or so.
I'm a graduate student full time and I work full time.
- There are so many times I just wish
we were back in our dorm room and she would come home
and talk me through my problems and I could talk with her
through hers.
- Stop it.
What are we even doing?
- Why are you here? - Why am I here?
I don't know why I'm here.
I've been asking them why I'm here.
- [Rita] It's kind of like transporting me back to
those nights eating ice cream.
- You talked about ice cream?
- Yeah.
- I talked about ice cream.
My expensive ice cream.
- I think we should have done this a long time ago.
Like, meeting again.
This is a reminder.
Don't let so much time go by without seeing someone
that you really care about.
- I love you so much.
- I'm here with Mai-Lynn.
- We're living the dream.
- Whoa, the lighting there is really bad.
- Oh, that's better.
- We're also getting more ice cream there so.
- Friendship.
It's a million little things.
- A million little things.
- [Narrator] A Million Little Things.
A new drama.
Wednesday, September 26th on ABC.