It was a typical night at Bayshore Emergency Department when Chris came in to relieve one of his fellow police officers from sitting with the ever so pleasant (and arrested) "J-Reezy". Maria, who was on no sleep and her 4th night-shift in a row saw the officers switch out and could not seem to take her eyes off of the tall one with the blue eyes. She had seen him once or twice before but they had never spoken to each other and "J-Reezy" was not Maria's patient so there was no need for them to talk that night. Hours went on before Maria's charge nurse got tired of her going out of the way to walk past room #4. She decided to make a move for Maria when the chance came and sent her to the room to assist Mr. "J-Reezy" with a urinal. It was there in the small walls of room #4 Chris and Maria spoke for the first time. Was it romantic? Nope. Were they coming face to face over an indisposed man handcuffed to a stretcher? Yup, they were. Clearly it did not matter because an hour after their first interaction all Maria wanted to do was find an excuse to get back in that room. As the night went on Maria talked to her coworker and dear friend Jerry about Chris and Jerry mentioned that he went to high school with Chris! He then confirmed that Maria would fall head over heels for Chris based on the facts Jerry knew about him (dog lover, baseball player, hiker, etc.) Jerry suggested that Maria bring Chris a cup of the worlds worst hospital coffee at 2 AM and well, she went for it. Chris was immediately intoxicated by Maria. He had secretly had a crush on her since his time with Bayshore EMS, year ago but never spoke to her. When Maria came back with that awful coffee he knew he was hooked. He flirtatiously made a joke about the situation they were meeting in to break the ice. About a week later on June 4th 2022 Chris and Maria went on their first date which proceeded to last as long as a shift in the ER. One year and 3 days later these two goofballs closed on their first home together. And around 10 months after that Chris got down on one knee and told Maria he was tired of calling her his girlfriend, when all he wanted since he met her, was for her to be his wife.