"College! Oh yeah!" Molly said, high-fiving Felix.

Felix smiled and grabbed his textbooks from the checkout counter at the college bookstore, "I can't wait to get to our first ceramics class together! And stress management! I'm so glad we have some classes together!"

Molly smiled widely. She was going to college to become a veterinary technician and Felix was going to become a construction worker and become a landlord. They were both required o take stress management classes and electives so they signed up together for those classes.

"Hey, wait... Is that... Ralph!?" Molly said, looking past Felix.

Felix turned quickly to indeed see his old high school enemy looking at some notebooks. He looked taller and stronger, but he also had a new look on his face. One they weren't used to seeing on him. He looked almost... kind and sorry.

"What should we do...?" Felix asked, looking up at Molly.

He was about a foot shorter than her, and about two feet shorter than Ralph. In school, he was always the shortest student which was another reason why he was picked on a lot.

"Let's just pretend we don't see him and go from there," Molly suggested, grabbing her books as well and heading towards another section, "I just want to see if they have any cool jackets or something before we go."

Felix nodded and followed her to the clothes, books in hand. He looked at a t-shirt while he waited for her, considering buying it, when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Felix?" said an all-too familiar voice.

Felix whipped around and instantly shrunk back, seeing Ralph looking down at him, "R-Ralph! Uh... Wow... Y-You're going here too, huh?"

Ralph nodded, "Yeah! Hey, um, I wanted to apologize for my behavior in high school. I really am sorry about how I acted towards you. You did nothing to deserve that treatment..."

"You're apologizing...?" Felix asked slowly, not sure if he believed the taller man.

Ralph nodded, "I took some stress management classes and started seeing an anger management counselor... They helped me calm down and they said another thing I should to help is apologize to the people I messed with when I was younger."

"Really?" Felix asked in disbelief.

Ralph nodded again, "Really. So... Um, can we try to get past my past behavior and maybe try to be friends?"

"Well... I guess we can at least try," Felix shrugged.

"Good! Well, see you later, shortie! Er, sorry, I'll see you later, Felix," Ralph said, "Oh, here."

He handed Felix a piece of paper.

"It's my phone number. If anyone tries to mess with you, let me know, okay?" Ralph said.

Felix nodded, "Okay, thanks. Bye Ralph."

Ralph walked out of the store and Molly smiled a little.

"Look at that! He's changed! And you so like him!" Molly teased, smiling.

"I do not!" Felix protested.

"I saw you blushing! Or as you say, 'the honey glow in your cheeks', Felix," laughed Molly.

"S-Shut up!" Felix said, blushing.

Molly smirked and grabbed a jacket, heading for the checkout counter. She bought the jacket and picked up the bag.

"Don't try to deny it, you like him now," Molly said.

Felix blushed hard and went to the parking garage and got in his car. Molly got in the passengers seat and stretched as Felix drove to the small apartment they were renting.

"You like him~" sang Molly the entire way there.

"Shut up..." muttered Felix, embarrassed.

Molly smiled and carried her books inside the apartment, "You should try to get him to realize you like him. If he couldn't figure that out already. You went all goo-goo eyes on him after he told you about how he's changed."

Felix knew he was beginning to blush again and tried to hide his face as he set his books on the kitchen table. Molly smiled and went into her bedroom. Felix took out the piece of paper and looked at it, wanting to text Ralph just to see how he was doing. After hesitating a minute, Felix finally sent Ralph a text. A minute later, Ralph texted him back.

'Hey, Felix! I didn't expect to hear from you so soon, are you okay?'

'Yeah, I just wanted to see how you're doing.'

'Oh, well, I'm good. Hey, do you want to meet for coffee tomorrow morning?'

'Sure, I'd love it!'

Felix smiled to himself as he put his phone back into his pocket. He was going out with Ralph for coffee. Could this be his chance to start his first relationship or was he reading too much into Ralph's signals...?