Araveya was simply minding her own business, as she often did during her morning ritual: quietly enjoying a bagel with cream cheese. It was her time, peaceful, uneventful, and delicious. That is, until one day, a man walked by. Not just any man, a metaphorical shark named Matthew Rouse. He stopped her midway up the stairwell, looked her straight in the eye, and said, "I like bagels too." She blinked. Chuckled. And kept walking. The interaction was... odd. Unexpected. Slightly amusing. But certainly nothing to dwell on. So she didn’t. She continued eating her bagel and carried on with her day. But then it happened again. And again. Almost every morning after that, Matthew somehow appeared, like clockwork, just as she was on the stairs, bagel in hand. Soon, she began noticing him in her office area as well. He was always around. Pleasant. Briefly chatty. Just enough to make her wonder. Then one morning, she was in too much of a rush to exchange the usual “Good morning.” No time for bagel banter. But Matthew left her a sticky note. It read: "I like bagels too." Now she really started to wonder… Was it just about the bagels? Or was it something more? She tried to brush it off. Really, she did. But a few days went by, and Matthew didn’t show up. No stairway sightings. No note. No familiar face in the office. And that’s when she noticed something else, she missed him. Maybe… just maybe… she liked bagels too. So, Araveya made her move. Not a grand gesture. No long-winded confession. She opened her email and simply wrote: "Hi." That’s it. One word. Matthew replied. They’ve spoken every day since. And now? Araveya doesn’t eat her bagels alone anymore. P.S. Araveya later found out that when Matthew first received that mysterious one word email, he turned to his coworker Megan and asked: "Wait… who is Araveya?"