One day, in the 2nd year of medical school, my friend Dongyan invited me to play foosball in the student lounge. I had never been to this "foosball club" before, but I wasn't doing anything else that day, so I decided to go. The moment I walked in, I zeroed in on Raza. He was standing at the foosball table telling a truly terrible joke to another classmate. I laughed, he looked at me, and that's all it took for me to decide that he had to be mine. Cue several months of Raza being oblivious to my obvious flirting, until finally I told him I liked him and asked him on a date! And now we're getting married!
Melanie showed up in foosball club one day, and then kept showing up. She always wanted to play doubles as my teammate, even though we Lost. Every. Game. After a few months of frequent texting, she invited me to see a movie, to which I responded that I was going with my brother, Abbas. Melanie looked sad, so I asked Abbas if I could watch the movie with a friend. Just before the movie, Melanie told me she had "the biggest crush" on me. I finally realized that there was a chance she had been flirting with me. Four years, two cats, and a proposal later, I am pretty sure she was.
