It was towards the end of the summer that I first laid my eyes on her. What was supposed to be a 1-on-1 meeting with a friend turned out to be an impromptu matchmaking session. There was something about her that caught my eye, but I wasn't in the right frame of mind to recognize it. Not just yet. I spent the evening doing what I had originally set out to do, catch up with a friend. But in the back of my mind, I was curious. I was curious about her.
Fast forward about 2 weeks later, this time at someone's going away party, and we meet yet again. I was playing Rock Band at a friend's apartment before the event. She walked in through the apartment door and my heart fluttered. I was excited to see her. Once she settled in we exchanged pleasantries and started playing Rock Band together. I impressed her by getting a perfect score at one point on the guitar, prompting her to begin calling me a "robot". Though not many words were exchanged between us, we connected.
The time then came for us to go to the event and we arrived together along with some mutual friends. We sat across from each other, but were surrounded by other people who were there to watch UFC 88, as we were in a bar. At one point, a chicken wing was dropped into her whiskey sour, prompting me to tease that her drink was now a "whiskey hot and sour". We shared a few laughs and then moved on to the next venue, a bubble tea establishment overflowing with people. As we were sitting at separate tables, I kept glancing her way, trying to re-create that excitement I felt when she first walked in through the apartment door earlier that evening. I began to think about the possibility of "us".
She added me on Facebook shortly after and said she still thought I was a robot. The flirting was on! I playfully rebuked, writing her a message in binary code, teasing her that she didn't understand robot. But little did she know that the binary wasn't some random gibberish. It was about how I thought she was cute.
It wasn't until a group trip to New York a few weeks later that we really hit it off. This was originally supposed to be a shopping trip with Tai Pan tours. However, due to underwhelming interest in this tour by people outside of our immediate group, the tour was cancelled. Call it a twist of fate or what not, but this cancellation put into motion a series of events that would ultimately lead to the beginning of our relationship.
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