We worked together for many years and always respected each other as nurses. In the most stressful of times, the worst nights at work, when you have a good team of nurses working, it is still a good night. We watched each other go through trials in life, and it was during those times we began a friendship. Sharing advice, learning what type of person the other one was... catching glimpses of the authentic person neither of us had met yet. Then one day, I noticed how beautiful his eyes are and that his smile was infectious, it would be weeks before I'd confess my crush to a friend. He told me once that he realized how sweet I really am one night when I was at work for something else entirely but I clocked in long enough to help him get caught up. When I finally did work up the nerve to ask him out (I never was one to sit and wait for my life to happen), he made me ask him probably a dozen more times! James asked me once before he agreed to a date, what it was that I wanted, such an over thinker! I told him conversation and a good meal, probably a good thing I didn't tell him I was in search of my "happily ever after". And yet, here we are...killin it!