Joe and Jocelyn continued spending countless hours together playing games, and talking with each other online. Not a day passed where they didn't talk to each other in some way, even if only for a few minutes. Joe was completely smitten with Jocelyn, but was dreading asking her out in case she didn't feel the same way. Jocelyn had been eagerly waiting for Joe to ask her out for months, but he was a little slow and didn't catch the hints.

On March 29th, 2024 - Joe and Jocelyn played Stardew Valley for a little bit, but Joe had to cut the session short because he had tickets to go see Dune Part 2 (which he had been looking forward to seeing for a few weeks).

However, Joe had been planning to hang out with his cousin that weekend, and thought that conversation might drift into asking about relationships, and he wanted to be able to give her a firm title of what Jocelyn was to him. So after putting off asking her and just playing for close to 2 hours, he waited until the last minutes before he had to go to his movie and asked her if she wanted to officially become his girlfriend.

"So... you know we have pretty much talked with each other every day since December, and have hung out every day... right? Well... I think... you know... you are kinda cool... and I like you a lot... and I kinda... you know... would... like to know if... do you feel... it's ok, labels don't matter... but I would like to label it... yeah?" (maybe not an exact quote, but approximately correct)

Jocelyn excitedly told him that she would gladly be his, and both of them walked around with a stupid grin for the rest of the day (probably week, to be totally honest).

And thus, Jocelyn proved her mom wrong - she had always been saying that Jocelyn would never find a man sitting in her basement, but she went and did exactly that.

Shortly after that, on April 3, Joe asked Jocelyn if she wanted to join him for a wedding in Maine for his cousin. His mother had mentioned it as something she might like, but neither of them expected her to say she would travel for the wedding. But she pleasantly surprised both of them, and said she would love to have their first official date be a wedding where she would meet his entire extended family.

Joe and Jocelyn continued to talk, and both of their families were admittedly unsure if Joe and Jocelyn were actually talking to a real person, but the time passed very quickly, and shortly after Joe proposed turning the wedding trip into a road trip, spanning from Maine to Michigan, and allowing each other to meet all the friends and families that they could.