Finding My Secret Late Night Companion in Lisbon

Two strangers met on the roulette, talked for a year without ever seeing each other's faces, and then walked into the same tiny Lisbon restaurant.

It all started around 4 in the morning. I was alone in my apartment in Geneva, and I opened Lovense Remote for the very first time. First time ever spinning the roulette too. I really had no idea what to expect.

And then she showed up. A stranger, somewhere in Galicia. We started playing. Just vibrations at first, then messages, then hours and hours of talking without ever seeing each other's faces. She was the first person I ever really talked to on the app. The first. And in a way, the only one who ever mattered.

It went way beyond a game, and fast. We told each other things we'd never told anyone. We laughed, we sat in silence, we found each other every night like it was the most natural thing in the world. We talked about meeting up a lot, and every time we ended up saying the same thing: "Maybe what makes this so strong is that we don't really know each other."

Then, one year later, to the day, we were in Lisbon. Neither of us had any idea the other was there. We were both on vacation with friends, in a country that wasn't ours. We never would have imagined running into each other. Not for a second.

That night, we ended up in the same little restaurant, tucked away in Alfama. One of those places tourists avoid, but people who know say the food's better than anywhere else. Tables squeezed together, yellowish light, plates clattering, people talking. I was sitting with my friends. She was on the other side of the room with hers. I looked at her. She looked at me. Then again. And a third time. There was something. It wasn't recognition, it was weirder than that. Like my body remembered her before my brain did. Like we'd already touched each other without ever having met.

We stood up at the same time. Without looking at each other, without saying a word, we just left the people we were with. We met face to face in the middle of the room, hearts pounding. We started talking. Quietly at first, then faster and faster. We laughed, we looked at each other a little too long, we could feel something was already there, even if we didn't understand what yet. The night went on and on, and we ended up in a room together.

At some point, in the middle of all that, we started talking about toys. About remotes. About nights spent apart. I described a very specific vibration pattern. She stopped dead. She told me about a 4 a.m. session, a year earlier, with a stranger from Geneva... the very first person she ever talked to on the roulette. We looked at each other. Really looked. And everything just flipped. It was us. For exactly a year, on the same roulette. Same nights, same shivers, same silences.  

Since that day, we see each other regularly, even with the distance. And every time we're apart, we open Lovense Remote again, because that's where it all started. Because that's where we found each other without knowing it.