Some love stories start with grand gestures or chance encounters. Ours started with family friends. Caden had been best friends with my cousin since kindergarten, which means he had technically been around my world for years — we just didn’t know our world was about to become our world. In the summer of 2024, we finally started hanging out… and from the very first night we met up, something just clicked. Caden made the first move (thank goodness 😉), and what started as casual summer hangouts quickly turned into something neither of us could ignore. There was this unexplainable feeling — like we weren’t just meeting for the first time, but picking up where we left off in another lifetime. We’re both pretty unserious people. We laugh at everything. We tease each other constantly. We turn ordinary days into inside jokes. But underneath all the playful energy is something very real. Very steady. Very certain. Somehow, on that very first night, we both just knew. This wasn’t temporary. This wasn’t just a summer thing. This was the person. What started with a family friendship turned into our forever — and we wouldn’t have it any other way.