We met in July 2017 completely casually at Jess' house through her roommates. With an episode of Blue Planet on in the dark, she walked into the room and the moment we saw each other we felt an unmistakable, stop-you-in-your-tracks attraction. That night before leaving, with a pit in my stomach I took a leap and asked to kiss her. She accepted, of course. And then later asked me out, and I said no! We dated later despite that -persistence!- and moved in together by the end of the year, taking another big leap. Soon after, we were watching Spongebob in our dark little studio, sometime in winter and thick in the middle of Jess's flu. Equally casual, with a hidden pit in my stomach, I was taking my biggest leap yet. Just as I asked to kiss her for the first time, I asked to marry her. And she accepted, of course! It's been two years. We only want to be together more and cheesy as it sounds, we know it's real and that's pretty cool. And we can't wait to share that with everyone.