We met in 2015 - both newly hired at the same firm to pursue our CPAs. We became close friends and shared everything from grueling long hours, study nights, to weekend plans, and hiking adventures. After (coincidentally) moving into the same apartment building downtown in 2017, we became constants in each other's lives, yet assured our inquisitive friends that we were nothing more than just friends (although not many believed us). One pandemic day years later, after what felt like a thousand covid coffee walks, the spark we’d both ignored for so long finally caught fire. There was no grand gesture, no dramatic moment—just the quiet realization that maybe the love we’d been seeking was right in front of us all along. Sometimes the best love stories are the ones that take their time. And so it began...