After our first night together, both Tom and I acted as though nothing had happened. This was fine on paper - he had a girlfriend back home, I had no desire for a boyfriend and a crush on someone else. But...

Things kept happening. We spent time together without noticing, and we'd wake up naked the next morning and be totally surprised that it had happened again! The number of times we would decide that we should just stay friends, chat for an hour, then realign the boundaries somewhat, but DEFINITELY for the last time, only to do the same thing the next night. It was ridiculous. After about 3 weeks of this, we were sitting on his bed talking about nothing and everything. I honestly can't remember who said it, but one of us said, 'Wouldn't it be amazing if we were married? We could just do this all the time. And do loads of cool stuff together!' And we looked at each other as though we had just invented the concept of falling in love, and needed to really test all aspects before we released it onto the market.

It took a few more weeks, and a rather drunken weekend at my parents' house, before we succumbed to the inevitable, and became a Proper Couple. We thought nobody knew, but had maybe over-estimated our talent for subtlety somewhat. Everybody knew. So we thought, OK we didn't surprise you with our announcement, well that's fine, we just weren't trying hard enough. So how about this one? 'We're getting married!'

That sure attracted some attention.