We met back in high school thanks to a bunch of mutual friends who somehow thought bowling and late-night hangouts were the height of teenage sophistication. Picture this: rented shoes that smelled like mystery, glow-in-the-dark lanes, and someone (probably one of us) trying way too hard to bowl a strike and ending up in the gutter. That was the chaotic charm of it all. Between laughing at each other’s terrible form and arguing over who actually won, we somehow started clicking without even realizing it. What started as random group hangouts slowly turned into “accidentally” sitting next to each other more often, talking longer after everyone else left, and finding any excuse to team up during games. There was this weird, hilarious comfort between us from the start—like we were both in on some secret joke the rest of the world didn’t know. It was goofy, a little messy, and totally unplanned… but it worked. Turns out, nothing brings people together quite like mutual friends, bad bowling, and the occasional late-night heart-to-heart in a parking lot.