What was it?

What was it?
What attracted us together?
You know?
For almost five months,
I sat in front of you,
Every other day,
Rarely speaking,
Maybe it was foreshadowing,
How I'd always give you more.
But for so long,
I never even saw your face,
And you didn't know my name.
But then,
Boom!
In six seconds,
It all changed,
This saga began.
So many things,
Came from those few seconds,
I felt something,
From that point forward.
Something was special about that hug,
All through the weekend,
It stayed in my mind,
I was going to ask you in class,
But I was too scared.
So at lunch,
Totally feeling like Chris,
Getting directions to that party,
I got your email address.
When those 17 letters were written down,
We had no idea.
No idea what was going to happen.
I don't think either of us thought,
Thought it'd become something like it did,
Remember how "awesome" it was,
To see so many emails,
And have them only be from each other?
Remember the promises we made?
I made mine on the eighteenth.
Too bad we both broke them...
But I remember exactly how I told you,
I remember my exact emotions...
And remember,
Remember our five and a half hour phone conversation?
Remember arguing about who loved each other more?
Remember how happy you were that I was here?
Are you still happy?
I remember how happy I was that I was your friend,
The problem is,
That when you remember the good times,
You must remember the bad,
The fight in the wee hours of your birthday,
The decline of the friendship,
The 29th and 30th of July.
I read that email,
Over and over,
Wishing it wasn't true,
Waking up,
For a week or two,
In the final fight,
And just having a few seconds,
Before realizing what was going on.
I could feel my heart ache.
For awhile,
I was fine without you,
But the second I saw you,
In the line outside lunch,
I was hit,
With this force of emotion,
And in out of my life,
You keep coming,
Oh won't you stay?
Look at what we had before,
This,
This emotional ecstasy,
This thing that drove us together so quickly,
This think that made us say I love you so many times,
This thing that forever changed us,
What was this thing that we had?
What kept us together then?
What was this friendship?
---It was unconditional love.