Carter was tiling a shower the day Maggie wandered, uninvited but somehow perfectly placed, into his corner of the world. He was working the way he always did, just trying to get'er done, and content to keep to himself and continue in that manner, when she stepped in with that familiar mix of curiosity and confidence, inserting herself into the moment without hesitation. He didn’t know it then, but that tiny interruption would become the hinge his whole life turned on. What started as casual conversation over grout lines and uneven tile cuts led into something neither of them expected. There was an ease between them, a spark disguised as shared sarcasm. In the kind of moment people usually overlook, they found themselves leaning in, drawn together by the quiet certainty of "this feels right". By the time the shower was finished, something else had begun. A bond that felt oddly inevitable, like two people who had been circling each other for years without knowing it. They left that day changed, tethered by something they didn’t yet have words for. From that point on, they’ve been inseparable, two lives stitched together by a 'chance' meeting, a shared laugh, and the unmistakable feeling that love had quietly chosen them long before they recognized it themselves.