From the moment Marc Julius Reyes laid eyes on Elaiza Joyce Ramos, he was smitten. “Elaiza was the only girl at school that caught my interest on Day 1,” Mr. Reyes said.
But this love-at-first-sight tale, which began on June 13, 2011, with two high school sophomores at a school in Quezon City, Philippines, didn’t truly begin until January 2013.
“We became seatmates as assigned by our teacher,” Ms. Ramos said. “For almost all classroom activities we were partners.”
The two had messaged regularly about assignments. But several weeks later, there was a shift and their messages became more personal.
“Marc is the mysterious type, so when he finally opened up to me, I learned a different side of Marc, and that’s when I started to fall for him,” Ms. Ramos, now 26, said.
Mr. Reyes, also 26, was taken, too. “I admired her for being goal driven even at a young age,” he said. “It was like she already knew what she wanted to achieve in the future. She made me want to come to school every day.”
