Over the years, Allison and Ashley have been high school sweethearts, “just friends,” and happily pre-married wives. They've known each for more than a decade, and there are too many milestones to count—so here's a highlight reel of their time together.
One of these is fake.
Allison and Ashley meet for the first time at the beginning of their junior year at High Mowing School. They do not remember this very well. Neither of them particularly cared for the other for their first year or so of knowing each other.
After several months of increasingly obvious flirting, Allison and Ash, now seniors at High Mowing, start dating on January 26, 2013.
Allison and Ash graduate high school but stay together, certain that they are so in love that long distance won't be a problem. Ashley visits Allison in California for a week that summer, and in the fall they both go off to college: Allison to University of King's College in Canada, and Ashley at University of New Hampshire.
Their school years end, and Allison and Ash both head west to spend the summer together in California. But the dream can't last forever, and come August they're back east, separated again.
In early 2015, Ashley realizes it's time to get out of NH. She jets off even further east to spend a few months rambling around Europe.
After a little over two years together that were mostly spent apart, and facing down the barrel of another two years before they'd live in the same place, Ashley and Allison decide it's time to call it quits.
But as it turns out—Ashley still moves to California as planned. Allison comes home for the summer, and they continue to hang out all the time (but it's totally platonic and they are NOT together).
Ashley ends up as the general manager of a downtown Oakland cafe, and Allison finishes out her degree. They still talk online.... every day.
Allison graduates and moves back home. They now live in the same place! But nothing happens. They're Just Friends!!
Allison takes off for a couple of months to go on her own European adventure. She realizes there, with the help of a good friend from college, what many people apparently already knew: she and Ashley might not be "just friends."
Things come to a head, and they can't deny it any longer. On June 3, 2018, Allison and Ashley start dating (again).
Allison gets tired of lugging her stuff to Ash's studio apartment in a backpack and they move in together! Their place is a cool, if cave-like, warehouse space in West Oakland sandwiched between a truck depot and a recycling plant.
Their already sizable menagerie (2 cats and 2 rats) grows by one: they bring home little Apollo, not realizing he will sprout into 85-pounds of muscular, strong, and energetic beast.
2020 shakes everything up and Ash and Allison start feeling restless. They look north to Seattle where there are friends, family, and also real seasons. Leaving the Bay behind, they head to Seattle for a new adventure.
After ten long years they book a venue and (finally) start planning their highly anticipated wedding.
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