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When we first met

By the end of this story, you’ll probably wonder, “how on earth are these two together?”
There wasn’t one big, magical “love-at-first-sight”moment when we first met - we just kind of “happened".
Zac was a first - year apprentice, I was a third year, and we worked in the same department, on different crews. We shared the same walk into work, the same break times, the same workshop - and most days, it was a quick head nod or a “morning” and off we went.
Then one day, we ended up walking in together. After a polite “morning”, Zac looked over at Carley & asked, “why are you orange?”, Carley explained she’d fake tanned for a party - to which he replied, “you look like an Oompa Loompa”
Charming, right?
Later that day, they met again when they got placed in the same workshop, which meant an actual conversation - surely?
They started chatting about sports, and Carley confidently declared “cricket and AFL are the two worst sports ever”
Zac: “I play both…”
Carley: “… Oh…”
So far, not the best first impressions!
But later that afternoon, Zac asked Carley for her “socials” (Carley assuming just as friends) and the rest is history…
Clearly he did see something special in his ‘favourite sport hating Oompa Loompa’ after all