It all started when Randy sat across from me at the cafeteria table. He shook hands with everyone at the table, including me, and formally introduced himself. No high schooler had ever shaken hands with me before. For this, I thought he was very strange, but there was a kindness in him that lacked in all the others. I didn't realize it yet, but when I connected my eyes with him, I felt this connection like we were going to be together for the rest of our lives. Soulmates. At the beginning, I was rude to him most of the time. I just kept my headphones in and used one-worded responses or only nodded whenever he tried to talk to me. I was very shy, but he was insistent. He told me he always kept coming back because he saw something in me. He continued to sit next to me almost every day. It took the better part of the school year until I finally started to develop feelings for him. Eventually, the rest was history. It's clear that table in the cafeteria was more than just furniture - it was where our story began, and where I discovered a love that would grow into something extraordinary.