We first saw each other on the first day of Spanish class at Alamance Community College in August of 2016. We always caught each other looking at the other person and we would just smile and look away. A couple weeks go by and Maurice seems to "forget" his book every single class so he had to share with me. This got us talking more but just simple conversations. On Labor Day weekend in September I was going up north to go camping. After class was finished on Friday, Maurice came up to me and asked if I would do his homework for him. Laughing at him, I said yeah only if you do mine. He laughed and said "I'll message you on moodle" which is the online platform for school and then we went on our separate ways. Over the weekend I had no service due to camping so I never got any messages or notifications until Monday evening. Once I got my service I saw that Maurice messaged me Friday evening! I had been waiting all weekend for a message just to see I got it that night. I instantly sent him a message back and told him I was sorry. He told me that he thought I wasn't interested. Little did he know I was waiting to get a message from him. I had to drive back to North Carolina from Rhode Island which was about a 12 hour drive. This is the start of where I began to fall in love with this man. He called me every hour to check up on me and see how the drive was going. He stayed awake in the middle of the night just to make sure I was good on the road. The next day he came over to study for Spanish and fast forward 4 years and here I am about to get married to the love of my life!