We went our separate ways, but soon fund ourselves texting every day. It had been the better part of a year since we met in April, and I wanted an excuse to hang out with him again. So I invited him to Waco to come be a judge at a tournament that I was hosting. I figured, there is no way this guy likes robotics as much as I do and wont drive three hours one way to come to a tiny event that doesnt have any teams he knows. But then he actually showed up at 7am.

So naturally I locked him in a room with a bunch of strangers and proceeded to be so busy making sure everything ran smoothly that i didnt see him until the ned of the day. We went to dinner after and I was so tired that I fell asleep in the middle of the meal. Did that scare him away?

No. In fact we met up again on my birthday a month later at regionals because he wanted to "watch my team compete." He then proceeded to get himself a fieldside volunteer role so he could hang out with me all day while I was reffing.

By now, we are deep into tournament season and between FTC and FRC there is some event going on between mid January and worlds in April. So we spent the next 3 weekends with each other in various cities with various robots, with each one spending a little less time with our teams and more with each other. By then, people who knew us both were starting to ask if we were dating. And we consistently told them no.

Then the world shut down...

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