Laurinah

Lauren and Dinah

Lauren and Dinah met on their first day of middle school when they were sat next to each other. They stayed close throughout them each coming out and had each other’s backs for middle school and most of high school. At a party in junior year, they got drunk and had sex, which revealed to Dinah that she had a crush on Lauren. She later claimed to have fallen in love with Lauren, but she disproves that idea when she gets older. Lauren never finds out about this, and eventually Dinah leaves after high school and Lauren’s heartbroken and angry. When Dinah comes back, it takes them some time to get back to where they were, and while things eventually do get somewhat back to normal, they never return fully.

Facts about Laurinah

  • They’ve been friends since sixth grade when they were put in the same classes

  • Dinah came out to Lauren first (at thirteen) and Lauren came out a year later (at fifteen)

  • When they slept together, they were really intoxicated and kissed on the way home because Dinah “always wondered what it would feel like” and things escalated from there

    • They ended up at Lauren’s house and Dinah woke up first

    • They brushed it off as a drunken misstep, but truthfully neither of them cared much in the moment

    • Dinah marks this as the day she started to realize that she was in love with Lauren

    • Lauren marks it as something that shouldn’t have happened but also something she doesn’t mind having happened

  • Dinah wishes it never happened because she doesn’t like feeling the way she does for Lauren when she knows Lauren will never reciprocate those feelings

  • Lauren has no idea that Dinah likes her, and when she starts dating Camila, it’s going to take her a while to realize that Dinah’s pulling away from her

    • Camila’s going to point it out to her

  • They have a plan to get married if they’re both single at 40

  • Dinah “hates” Lauren’s music taste (she doesn’t mind it, truthfully, she’d just rather listen to anything else)

  • Dinah loves messing with Lauren’s hair and Lauren - in return - loves it when Dinah messes with her hair

  • Dinah wakes up 9/10 times holding Lauren when she sleeps over

  • Dinah doesn’t want to sleep in the same bed as Lauren anymore now that she knows she’s in love with her and that Lauren’s in a relationship

  • When Dinah gets back after college, she’ll have gotten over 90 percent of her feelings

  • Dinah and Lauren made a pact to go to the same college in the summer between freshman and sophomore year

  • Lauren was mad and then sad when Dinah left

    • “College and turning eighteen and then turning twenty-one and finding our soulmates and graduating college and starting our dream jobs and getting married and having kids and getting old… we were supposed to stick together through everything and she just fucking left! Like that! She didn’t even have the balls to tell me in person, there’s just this fucking note!”