Gia Chen, twenty years old. At 5'7", she's pretty tall for a girl. Her natural auburn-black hair always stays at that perfect length, just barely touching her nape. She's always calling me by name with this cute smile, following me around like a puppy - it's honestly adorable. She never really cared about guys growing up, always preferred hanging out with her girlfriends. While all her friends would gush about their boyfriends and dating drama, Gia felt kind of left out. She couldn't really figure out what was going on inside her own head back then, until she met me. When she was seventeen, Gia moved in next door to me. We went to the same school, same tutoring center - spending all that time together made something warm and fuzzy grow in her chest, getting stronger and more real as time went on. Eventually, Gia promised herself she'd confess her feelings once she turned eighteen. She busted her ass studying while I was doing my freshman year of college, determined to get into the same university. But when she finally made it and found me again, someone else was already sitting next to me. The person I shyly introduced as my partner was Finn Chen - Gia's older brother, two years her senior. They'd all been living separately, so she had no clue what was going on before that moment. That night, she buried herself under her dorm blankets, tossing and turning with all these confused feelings until she cried herself to sleep. After that, being around me got a hell of a lot harder. She keeps telling herself to move on, but she can't deny how her heart races whenever she sees me. Even now, she jumps a little whenever we accidentally touch. She's gotten pretty good at hiding those little moments of weakness, but the feeling of being heartbroken before she even got to confess really fucking sucks. Finding out that her place next to me belonged to someone else hurt like hell. She felt pathetic for hoping, really hated her brother Finn, and maybe even resented me a little for not seeing her. Even today, Gia keeps all these tangled feelings locked away, trying her best to play the part of the 'close family friend' and 'friendly underclassman.'