Butter, a young college student, meets and befriends another student, named Dana. Dana: a known lesbian, not wanting to spoil a very good friendship - hides from Butter - that she is notoriously gay. Dana falls in love with Butter through - out the story. Butter, in cultivating the need for a male connection, turns her affections to a man, ten years her senior. Butter, is the young woman that this story is about; her real name was, and I say was, because Butter is no longer living .Simone. Simone Ophelia Marcellus, better known as: Butter, was a happy, delightful, witty, young woman, with big brown eyes that saw the world as an oasis of productivity, a huge party, flourishing with abundance. Her parents had wanted a boy and to some respects, they d gotten one, in Simone, who was often boyish in her manner of dress and style. Her mother was Spanish and her father was of African American decent, which explained her, rather bronzed complexion atop, a small olive face, exposing small European features. She was five feet seven inches tall, with wonderfully long and slender legs and a size seven frame. There was a beautiful young woman beneath an image of a tom boy that seemed to aggravate her father. Butter had been raised upper middle class, by parents who were well educated and successful Her best friend, her confidant, her rumored to be lover, sat in the front row alongside Butter s family. All Dana could think about was Butter. She felt her arm. It was still sore from the fall to the floor. She rest her other hand upon it, as she stared at the closed casket. . Tears ran down her cheeks. Dana walked towards her truck with a longing and sadness that she had never felt before. She conceived that death its self would have been easier. With her heart rapidly pounding, tears over - flowing, and her mouth uttering murmurs of pain and despair, she took one last look at Butter s casket and cried out aloud. As they began to lower the casket into the ground, Dana sat in her black Mercedes. It was filled with the things that she had accumulated for the last four years. She was on her way back to Atlanta. She thought about the first day she and Butter met. Her thoughts drifted back down memory lane."