One moment you’re sniggering beside each other in class, and the next, you’re staring into each other’s eyes at the altar. For some couples, this jump from platonic to romantic takes months of harmless palling around before they catch that sickness called feelings; for others, it takes decades and a bunch of relationships on either side before a light bulb goes off in their heads and they realize that this is—OMG—“The One.” We got nine men and women to reveal their (and their parents’!) friends-turned-lovers tales. Swoon at their stories, and don’t write off that next-door neighbor you used to play patintero with just yet. He might just turn out to be—OMG—“The One.”