Imagine you are a high school student in 2010 at Manchester Highschool for a moment. You are sitting in the enclosed cafeteria for upper-level students, and your eyes gaze towards a table of artsy misfits from the Mass Communications class. Two of those students would notice each other every other day for almost two years but never say more than hi at that table. One was a boy preoccupied with dreams of being a rockstar and couldn't be bothered with taking off his signature blue Skullcandy headphones. The girl was enjoying being with her friends while she could. Time would go on, and she would graduate first, leaving him to a final year at the high school to find a new table of friends to sit with while she navigated college and life on her own. He would move to Florida to go to school, and the most you would see between the two were some social media messages now and again until there was silence for about five years. If you were a fly on a wall after those years, you would see the boy sitting in his room mindlessly scrolling through Snapchat (as young people tend to do) when he saw a video from the night before from a familiar face. The girl from high school was dancing with her friends in a loud country bar. He replied almost instantly with no hesitation. "You are always having fun. I need to hang out with you guys," she replied, "you totally should!". What began as a friendly reconnection became a rapidly budding friendship until the confines of a friendship were too small for what they felt. Texts became calls, and calls became routine. On September 25th, 2017, he asked her, "You still wanna hang out this weekend? I was thinking about hitting the state fair; I haven't gone in years". I know what you are thinking "that wasn't very romantic," and it's kind of because it wasn't. The girl wasn't just going to go to the fair with this guy she hadn't seen in years. So she asks him to go to Kings Dominion for their annual Halloween event. "I was thinking about going with Denise and her boyfriend, John," she says. Saying no wasn't an option considering how much he liked her, even though they had not yet exchanged those specific feelings. It was a "what's understood doesn't need to be said" sort of feeling. Kings Dominion was going to be the day before the fair. The butterflies felt more like hornets in their stomachs; the anticipation was killing them. They went to Kings Dominion and had a blast; he played it as cool as possible to underplay his underlying fear of roller coasters, but what was important was the ride home that night. "So about tomorrow... is this a date?" he asked after marinating on the question for what felt like a lifetime. She laughed, asking, "do you want it to be a date" the laugh was returned with an "I do." The fair was the start of a yearly tradition they would always attend. They knew almost immediately that this was something special. Fairs would come and go, and they would grow closer and closer in between them. I's, and Me's turned into We's and Us'. Job titles changed, and promotions came. They bought a house a month before the most significant pandemic of their lifetime would hit, causing them to face each other every day for almost a year, a challenge that let the young man know that they were built to grow together no matter what life would throw their way. The choice he had to make was an obvious one. He purchased a ring, took her back to that same fair, and rode the Ferris wheel, where they took their first picture together. You can't ask him what he said leading up to him getting on his knee, but what Jordan said next brought us here over ten years later. Aleesha Geiger, will you marry me?