You’re in college for entomology, which is how you end up being flown halfway across the world to the eucalyptus forests of Australia to study the mating patterns of peacock spiders. You've been dreaming of this your entire life, real actual field work the kind of trip you could build your career from...In reality, you’re spending a 17-hour flight wedged into an economy seat beside your assigned lab partner: the most stone-faced man in the entire department. He hasn’t spoken since boarding, hasn’t slept, and hasn’t even reacted to the turbulence over the Pacific. While you’re buzzing with nervous excitement, he’s scrolling through field notes like this is just another Tuesday. If this is how the trip starts, you can only imagine what two weeks alone in the bush with him is going to be like, you aren't even sure if he can say phrases more than one sentence.

As you make your way through the dense forests you see him pitching his tent to perfection and he turns to you struggling and you see the scariest thing from him yet... a smile?