How we met: ‘We’re like two pieces of a puzzle clicking together’
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Brandon, 28, and Christine, 27, became close friends when they worked together at a Covid testing lab. Now they live in different countries, but make time to continue their friendship. When Brandon and his boyfriend moved to London from Wales in April 2021, there wasn’t much going on. With the city under lockdown, he took a job in a Covid lab at Gatwick Airport. “I was processing PCR tests for people who were travelling,” he says. “I didn’t know anyone in London except my boyfriend, but luckily the team I was working with were great.”.
![[Brandon and Christine in Barcelona, September 2021.]](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d6a811393b5b59df65a53f26fc610465ee947691/0_50_1200_1500/master/1200.jpg?width=445&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none)
In June, they were joined by Christine, a biology graduate who lived in London and had transferred from the PCR testing lab at Heathrow. “When I arrived, they seemed like a tightknit team, so I was a bit anxious about fitting in,” she says. “But Brandon was super friendly and that drew me to him straight away. I really wanted to be his friend.”.
Brandon thought Christine seemed nervous, but he was impressed by how quickly she got stuck in. “She was very up for engaging with people,” he says. “We were also the same age, while the others were a bit older, so it was exciting to get to know someone going through the same period of life as me.”.
They clicked straight away, talking about “everything” and bonding over work. “It was really stressful because you never knew what each Covid wave would be like and which travel restrictions were being lifted, as things happened quickly,” she says. Often the lab would get hundreds of samples, all of which needed to be processed within a day.
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