CHO: We were 12.

MOON: I remember what she was wearing the first day I met her--a white shirt and a red plaid skirt--and she was snapping her gum and twirling her hair on her finger. I remember thinking, "Oh, my gosh!" I didn't think we would ever become friends because she just seemed really different. But from that day, literally that day, we've been friends. I guess we just clicked.

CHO: It's funny, we'd see each other at school like five days a week. And we also went to Friday night Bible study, and we went to church on Sunday where we saw each other. And we'd still be talking on the phone every single day, and writing each other notes. We've probably seen each other at least five days a week for the past nine years.

MOON: It was actually very weird that we ended up at the same college. BC was my first choice, but I think she applied just randomly. We are really different people, and I knew that when we went to college we'd have completely different lives. We knew that there was no way that we'd live together, so we didn't even talk about it.

CHO: Freshman year we kind of had our own separate things and we didn't see each other as much.

MOON: We had totally different sets of friends. But we still made an effort to have dinner together at least once in a while.

After freshman year, when Cho and two roommates needed a fourth, Moon signed on.

MOON: I wasn't directly rooming with her. I don't think we could live in the same room. Not because we'd kill each other, but because we have totally different habits. We lived in the suite together, but I lived with another girl.

CHO: Living with Jen is good because we know when to give each other space. She knows every single facial expression I have and what that means, you know? We have our own separate lives, yet we can come home after a stressful day and we know how to hit each other's humor spots.

MOON: She definitely gives me a different perspective. A lot of people I know do typical things, have typical majors, and typical jobs. She's very unconventional. It's refreshing to me. Being able to go home and talk to her makes me think.

We don't get too mushy with each other, you know, too sentimental. But when it comes down to it, I think we both know how important we are to each other.


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