We originally met when we both decided to take a chemistry course over a summer break. We didn’t really speak then, but we both had to take organic chemistry the following fall semester. He says he recognized me from the summer and wanted a lab partner he knew (even if he only recognized me) and I was at the end of the group and everyone was paired up. We quickly became friends as the course went through. Even after we were no longer lab partners we stayed in contact. About a year later is when we started realizing there were feelings there. Both of us were scared of ruining the friendship, but decided to go on a date to an escape room in September of 2020. Things went well, we were still friends, talking all the time, and hanging out when we could. By the time December rolled around, she decided she was tired of waiting. She told him she wanted it to be a relationship, no longer just two friends that occasionally would go on dates. He agreed that we should start a relationship, and now here we are.