Thursday, April 1, 2010
On a warm day during spring semester two years ago, Tim Flattery, Onaga senior, sighed with impatience as he watched the soccer ball he’d just passed to Billy Griffin, Onaga senior, roll over Griffin’s foot. Practicing for his new intramural soccer team, Flattery says he remembers thinking to himself that he didn’t know if he’d be able to get along with his new teammate if he continued to act like he was afraid of the ball.
Griffin soon redeemed himself to Flattery that evening as the two finished up practice and decided to go out together with the soccer team. That night sparked a chemistry between Flattery and Griffin and they soon developed a “pseudo-relationship,” as they called it.
“We called each other ‘pseudo,’ meaning almost boyfriend, because we didn’t want to take it too fast,” Griffin says.
The pseudo-bond only lasted a couple of months because both Flattery and Griffin had individual plans for that summer. But the two remained good friends for the next two years, sharing mutual friends and still caring about each other.
“I had secretly always had something for Billy ever since I found out that he was interested in me. Even when we were apart, dating other people and just being friends, there was always some chemistry and it just took the right time for it to all come together,” Flattery says.
During fall break last semester, the two reignited their romance, both knowing in their hearts that they had cared for each other all along.
“We started getting to know each other again, but on a different level, and we made it official on December 26, 2009,” Flattery says.
Griffin still has another year left at the University and will graduate next May. During that year, Flattery, a dance major, says he wants to dance on a cruise line or with a company while Griffin finishes school.
After the two graduate, Flattery and Griffin plan on building a life together in Chicago, where Griffin was born.
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