Roll for Initiative!

We first met in passing in grade school, just enough to vaguely put a name with a face. We went to high school together for a year, but didn't really get to know each other or spend time together. It wasn't until his second and her third year of college that we ended up sitting next to one another in Ethan King's Microeconomics class. She was the bad influence that convinced a perfect-attendance student like him to leave class early and walk with her back home. We should have realized what that meant...

It took six months of telling ourselves, "Yes, we're hanging out one-on-one and spending time together almost daily, going out to dinner and making spur-of-the-moment Wawa runs, but no, we are definitely not dating," before we finally got around to admitting there might be something. When I asked her out on a bridge in the rain, I got as far as, "Hey, I really like you..." before she jumped in and said, "I really like you, too. What are we going to do about it?" I was left like a deer in the headlights, and that was that!

Nearly five years of dating, including two years in Philadelphia, summers spent apart while he worked at summer camp, a year of him working in Wisconsin, and a global pandemic. We've been through ups, downs, and everything in between together, and we've become so much stronger for it! Distance does make the heart grow fonder, but so does overcoming adversity together. We're better for having been together, and we're looking forward to keeping the train rolling!

He finally got up the nerve to propose in the winter of 2020-2021. By that time, the two of them were nearly a year into playing Dungeons and Dragons together, and he chose to create a nautical-themed one-shot that led to her discovering the ring was her ship's cargo. Needless to say, it went perfectly, and at long last, we're ready to affirm this covenant and begin our marriage!