Tinder is sending 2 people who have been 'too busy' to meet in real life to Hawaii together

The INSIDER Summary:

• Two Kent State University students began messaging on Tinder in 2014.
• They kept joking that they missed each other. 
• This went on until this year when Josh Avsec tweeted a screenshot of their conversation. A friend tagged Michelle Arendas, the woman he was talking to, in his tweet. 
• The two exchanged numbers and now Tinder is sending them to Maui. 

You know that feeling when you just forget to text someone back ... for a year? 

Well, Kent State University students Josh Avsec and Michelle Arendas ran into that situation nearly three years ago — and now the internet and Tinder is determined to get them together. 

It all started in September 2014 when Avsec and Arendas matched on Tinder. Avsec messaged Arendas with a simple "Hey Michelle." Despite that dazzling and captivating message, she didn't respond for more than a month and explained, jokingly that her "phone died." 

"Wow you found that pretty fast," he played along. "It usually takes me about five months to find my charger." 

"Yeah I just wanted to make sure it was fully charged, 0 to 100 real slow," she replied. 

Then the conversation dropped off for another month when Avsec jokingly excused his absence. "Hey, sorry I was in the shower," he said. 

She then took another month to reply. "Hey just saw this message, sorry I was in class," she said. 

Then, another three months went by and in May 2015, he messaged her back. "Sorry Michelle I have made a horrible first impression, i it [sic] really caught up with finals," Avsec wrote. 

"Hi I really do apologize for just now getting back to you, I've just had a really really busy week," she wrote back seven months later. 

Then, nearly a year went by when Avsec replied in October 2016: "Michelle I don't want you to think I'm rude, midterms are coming up and it's just been really hard to keep up with it all," he wrote. 

Four months later, he got his response. "Hey Josh, just wanted to get back to you really quickly!" Arendas wrote in February 2017. "President's Day had me swamped recently, you know how it gets!!" 

Avsec posted the entire exchange to Twitter last week with the caption, "One day I'm going to meet this girl and it's going to be epic. Look at the dates of our Tinder texts." From there, it was retweeted tens of thousands of times and one of Arendas' friends tagged her and looped her into the exchange. 

Avsec told BuzzFeed News that this is what finally prompted him to direct message her and get her number and that the two have been chatting ever since. But once Tinder got wind of this constantly missed love connection that happened on its platform, it sprang into action. 

"It's time you got together IRL," the app tweeted. "You have 24 [hours] to decide the city you want to have your first date in and we'll send you there!"

Avsec tweeted back and said that the pair had decided to meet up in Maui, Hawaii. 

"After a long debate over your unbelievably generous offer, our dream first-date would be in Hawaii," he wrote. "Meet you in Maui??" 

Tinder responded, confirming that they'd be sending the pair there. 

"Aloha! We're sending you to Maui but you can't take two years to pack your bags!" the app's social team wrote back. 

Avsec told BuzzFeed that he and Arendas have plans to meet up in person before their big trip and it looks like the internet is waiting with bated breath for the two to live happily ever after. 

 Here's hoping all your swipes right end in trips to tropical destinations! 

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