Hayley Robbins was just hoping to score a date with a “cute” boy when she dropped a softball into ocean. What actually happened was far cooler.

Six years later, Robbins, now 18 years old, got a response on her own version of a “message in a bottle.”

Robbins told BuzzFeed that when she was 12 she visited Myrtle Beach, S.C. She wanted to put a message in a bottle and see if someone would one day pick it up. Robbins didn’t have a bottle, though. She had a softball.

So she wrote on the softball “if found call” with her number on it — making sure to add the disclaimer that it was for “cute guys.”

"I thought it would be really cool to see if anyone ever actually would find the softball," she told BuzzFeed. … "I was just chancing it with the cute boys part, I thought it would be fun.”

Robbins said she never actually expected anyone to contact her. Yet, someone did. Just earlier this month. After six years. 

Someone texted Robbins from an unfamiliar number, writing, “I wanna be a superhero, guess my name.” And then “I’m Adam, I found your softball on the beach lol.”

When I went to the beach 6 YEARS AGO I wrote my name & number on a softball & threw it into the ocean & told cute guys to text me & I just got a text about it TONIGHT pic.twitter.com/pQvKy838MX

— hayley