Can I kiss you?

'Are you my mysterious backer when I started at the Vulcan Headquarters employment program?!!'

I asked with a slightly louder tone.

'So you deduced it to me huh? Why are you so smart but sometimes dumb? Yep. I helped you a bit. But it is just because you really are deserving.', Ellen replied nonchalantly.

'I am sorry Elle but let me ask further questions. This just puzzles me to the core.

How did you come to deem me as a deserving person when we did not even know each other on a personal level in the past?', I followed up.

'Okay. I understand your curiosity. Let me explain it to you completely.'

Ellen told me that initially, she was only intrigued about how similar our footsteps were during high school and college when it came to academics and stuff.

She told that the second time my name resounded in her ears was when the high school publication adviser contacted her about the mentoring gig which she declined but I accepted.