Amy

one-on-one or small coachings together.

I did, even though it's been a long time and I can't recall the specific details.

There would be musical practice after school.

And so I'm assuming that I probably saw him at the beginning of rehearsal or after rehearsal, we were having a conversation and maybe at that point we ended up going on drives.

My best friend had said that she remembers me saying something about dropping him off at his house or going to his house.

But I do not remember that.

We'd have days where we focused on the music or other days that we did blocking.

And so in those days, there would be opportunities to have the one-on-one sessions or smaller groups for one.

The one-on-one personal attention started to grow.

Soon we were going on rides together around town and I would be the one driving.

I'd pick him up because I think he was sharing a car with his partner.

So I would pick him up and we would go on drives around town.

I don't know how many times that happened, but there were multiple drives.

It would just be

talking and conversation and probably some leg rubbing or hand holding.

One in particular, we ended up going to Dinosaur Hill, which is a hill in the middle of the town that I was from that kind of separated the east and west side of town.

I just remember sitting on, I think, like a cement dinosaur and having a conversation with him about who knows what.

Those felt very meaningful, those rides.

Like, I don't know what we were talking about, but it felt important.

And he did make me a mixtape of Leonard Cohen songs, which I had a tape player in my car at the time.