It wasn't hard after seeing Laura walk by the pharmacy at Target with take-out all the time, to know the way to her heart was food. So as any chef would do, I cooked. One evening Laura pulled the shoulder trick on me and in Brooke fashion, I whipped around and screamed in her face, "DO YOU LIKE BANANA BREAD?!?" (If that wasn't embarrassing enough, I felt like she could see the sweat rolling down my face). I had to save myself from that, so I ran home and made the best loaf of banana bread I could come up with. I couldn't wait to go back to work to deliver the goods to her. So needless to say, I didn't sleep that night and worked way too hard on my outfit and hair that morning. Then came the extra meals that I brought for her every single day, just letting her think I wasn't hungry and was giving her my own lunch. You couldn't even imagine the heartbreak I felt when she didn't work the next day. At first, Laura didn't think I swung that way. She just thought I was overly nice, but the whole time I was trying to get her to see that I wasn't just trying to be her friend. Laura wrote the most basic, but sweetest sticky note with bottom of the bag Jolly Ranchers for me. So, I knew it was my time to shine. I wrote her a sticky note with heat up instructions for the lasagna soup I made her, and also put my number on a sticky note and attached it to the bottom of the container. Laura about fell over in the office when she found the sticky note. Fast forward to 7.5 hours later, when Laura finally decided to text me, "Yo that lasagna was amazing😍🙌🏼 one of my fav foods🤪" which in hindsight is very Laura-like, but I was shocked that is all she said. Once we exchanged numbers, we had many lunch dates in my car and lots of hours spent talking on the phone when we weren't working. Three months later, she took me on one of the sweetest dates and finally got the courage to ask me to be her girlfriend by the end of the date, on the car ride home. From that day on, we were inseparable.