Where did you meet your current partner?

i was outside college lamenting to one of my lesbian friends about how i really liked this guy but i was sure he couldn’t be gay - i’d met her on this course i was doing. she was a down to earth gym bro. as i was chatting to her, a handful of other lesbian friends she had (and that i was acquainted with) came over to say hi and find out what the gossip was. i explained the situation and they all called me a dumb idiot and explained that “duh, obviously he likes you”, then they (gently) peer pressured me to ask him out. at one point i was straight up showing them flirtatious messages my partner and i had exchanged and going “but what if he’s straight and he’s just messing around” 💀 i’m one of those idiots who couldn’t identify flirting if it slapped me in the face. example - one time i actually had a guy i knew sending me love songs he wrote and asking me for feedback and i managed to completely miss that he was writing them *for me* until he told me he had a crush on me for the entire 5 years i’d known him. unfortunately it wasn’t mutual but i mainly just felt bad i’d missed it. anyway, at the time my partner didn’t have a phone, which made finding him to ask him out in person a whole ordeal. one lesbian called a couple mutual friends to see if anyone knew where he was, and then we pinpointed his last location to the high street. a manhunt proceeded, the charge led by this exuberant lesbian friend. it wasn’t until i re-told the story to my parents that i realised i had an army of lesbians on my side; i was too stressed at the time to clock how bizarre everything was. finally i spot him outside one of the shops on the high street and i’m like “oh shit oh fuck”, thinking i should just run away and pretend like nothing happened, but one of the lesbians screamed “OI!!!! (NAME)!!! OP HAS SOMETHING TO TELL YOU!!!” so i had to swallow my fear and ask him out. then he said yes, and asked where our date would be. i didn’t think i’d get that far and had absolutely no clue so we ended up organising the date over discord since he could use that from his computer. we went to a little dessert diner down the road. we ended up becoming boyfriends after the date, and my partner finally got his phone fixed so we could chat more regularly (i lived 10 miles away in a tiny village and was commuting 1.5 hours every morning and evening for the college course and had to catch an early bus back home every evening) when i got a flat in the town he moved in with me pretty quickly and now 2.5 years later we’re incredibly happy and all i can think is “thank god for the lesbians” i haven’t actually seen any of them in a while, we slowly lost contact after the college course ended and i started working full time 😅 whenever i do see them they always ask how’s it going with my partner and i make sure to thank them every single time lol