Brooke's Version:

It was March 2011, a couple days before Freshman year Spring Break, when I texted my good guy friend from high school Robert Sorrell. I told him that I needed him to find me a date to the Sigma Chi formal later the next month. All of my friends had dates and I knew if I didn't ask Robert to find me a random date then I wouldn't get to go. I vaguely remember him texting me back about a guy named Morgan that needed a date and also that he was going on Spring Break with our crew to Panama City the next week so I could meet him then! I didn't think anything of it and was just excited that I may have a shot at a fun weekend at a fraternity formal. (What a brat, huh?!)

Fast forward a couple days and myself with 5 girls, and what seemed like 25 boys, were in a condo on nasty Panama City Beach, Florida for our first Spring Break. Looking back now I have no idea how my parents let me go/ or even why I wanted to go because that is one GROSS place during Spring Break, but I sure am glad I was there because thats when I met my Morgan Lee! I remember getting introduced to him and casually talking and flirting a little, but I was there with my girlfriends and I was ready to party! I had no intention of hanging out with a boy all week/ much less falling in love with him! What most of you may not know if you don't know Morgan is that he's a persistent little fella and when he knows what he wants he is going to get it. I remember catching him looking at me several times, and he would always happen to be within an earshot the first night. I remember my friends pointing out that he always found a way to be right around me or he would always jump in our conversations and crack jokes with me.I didn't think anything of it, until he somehow managed to get my number and began texting me when he couldn't figure out a way to be with me while we were there. Morgan is a very funny guy and his dry sense of humor and ability to always make people laugh made me find myself wanting to hangout with him all the time too! I remember the first time one of his pledge brothers said something about us being connected at the hip and I thought "nuh uh! we are just friends"!

FRIEND ZONE: I thought that it would just be a Spring Break flirty thing, and maybe he would ask me to formal, but that would be it, kind of situation. We were very clear that we were just friends that enjoyed each others company. We both had recently been in relationships, so we were NOT "talking"/ dating, we were just friends. The more I talked and texted with Morgan the more I wanted to hangout with him and the more I realized that we were kind of "talking" despite our best efforts to not want a relationship. He ended up asking me to Row week date night which is before formal, and formal. Y'all I wish there was a better story, but we were the classic college couple that just hung out none stop, swore we were just going to be friends, everyone knew differently and just ended up falling for each other. By the time we decided to call it "official" no one even cared because they thought we already were.

Six years later.. here we are with 2 crazy dogs about to make this friendship official! If you've ever been around us before you know that we are very best friends. He can always make me laugh. He makes me calm down and not take life too seriously. We are competitive, always doing random things, and completely obsessed with our French Bulldogs. My mom once told me that I had "met my match" with Morgan. She says "he doesn't just do whatever you tell him to do and let you walk all over him." And she is right, he challenges me, encourages me, supports me, picks at me, aggravates me on purpose, but loves me unconditionally. He is patient with me, but will also let me know when he thinks I'm being crazy! Haha! He sees the good in everyone and makes me a better person every single day. I've never tried out this marriage thing before, but I think the qualities we have are going to make us pretty good teammates and set us up for a fun and adventurous life! I can't wait to marry him and be an Ussery finally!

Morgans Version:

Morgan (man of few words) says everything above is true BUT we first met in the courtyard at the Sigma Chi House, first semester. He also says he knows I knew his name because I yelled at him when he was going across the cross walk to class one day. I don't remember either of those. (Whoops!!) I think he is just trying to make me feel bad!!

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