Maren Hartley and Emma Boice

How did you meet?

Maren: Well, when you’re forced to spend multiple hours a day together during marching band, you start developing relationships.

Emma: I don’t think we started dating until after. We went to the color dance the first week of school. That was our first one, and then we didn’t go on another date until, like, a few months later because, you know, band takes up your life.

What is the nature of your relationship?

Emma: It’s very laid back. We don’t, like, spend every dying breath together. If we can hang out, then we do. If we don’t have time, we don’t get upset about it. Whatever works with our schedules.

What do you like most about your significant other?

Maren: She’s very nice and she’s very talented and I love her so much.

Emma: She has a really good fashion sense, and we have a lot in common in terms of, like, backgrounds or family or where we lived in the past.

Maren: We have the same interests

What makes your relationship unique?

Maren: She hated me for a good many, many years.

Emma: Actually, I avoided her.

Maren: I didn’t know you actively avoided me…

Emma: We were in science class, and I actively tried not to be in a group with you because I thought you were really annoying.

Maren: So yeah, kind of turned around.

What do you think about the concept of love?

Maren: I think it’s nice to find someone who you can tell things you wouldn’t tell other people.

Emma: It’s kind of like a next stage. We started as friends and then we ended up dating. Through that, I think it’s become more of a “I do the same things with you as I do with the rest of my friends, except there are some things I would do with you that I wouldn’t do with the rest of my friends because I trust you more and I feel more comfortable around you.”