Kaitlyn:

In 2014, Country Fair weekend at Hume Lake, a friend of mine (Conner) brought a group of friends (including Keaton) up to work the weekend and they all ended up staying at my family's cabin.

We added each other on Facebook after that weekend but at the time we lived 5 hours apart from each other so I never thought I'd actually see him again. I low key had a crush on him though, so we kept in contact (after a few months of Facebook messaging he finally asked for my number).

In fall of 2015 I started college at Vanguard University and he decided to transfer to Biola University. Since we were now within 30 minutes of each other we decided to meet up and hang out since it had been a year since we'd seen each other.

Our first hang out was awkward at best, and I went home telling my roommate we were "just friends." I still thought he was cute though and so we had a few more hangouts including a couple trips to Disneyland, and in March of 2016 he finally asked me out and the rest is history!

Keaton:

For those who know me best, if there's ever a chance that I can save a penny, I'm all over it. That led me to ask my friend where he was staying for the weekend while working at Hume's Country Fair, with the hope that I could get paid in full instead of getting charged for food and housing.

He said he was staying at his friend's cabin and, as it turned out, that friend was Kaitlyn.

From what I remember, Kaitlyn was quiet and seemed shy, until the cards came out. We were paired up in a card game called nertz and as I sat dazed and confused without any knowledge of how the game was played, Kaitlyn carried our team to a victory with her intense, and borderline terrifying, desire to win.

From there, we added each other on Facebook, but it would be two years before we'd see each other again. After two years, filled with plenty of flirting (with each other) and dating other people, we both began our first semesters at Biola and Vanguard.

Before long we made plans to hang out, but those plans were derailed by the parking nightmare that is Balboa Beach, which made me 45 minutes late, and the fact that I was feeling under the weather. Nonetheless, we soldiered on through the awkwardness and got dinner after sitting on the beach.

Kaitlyn claims that I didn't pay for her dinner, but there's no evidence as to whether I did or didn't, so that case is still open.

Fortunately, the story didn't end there.

We didn't talk much for the remainder of the semester, we probably just had to recover from the awkwardness we had just experienced, but once I got a Disney pass it wasn't long before we made plans to go.

After several trips to Disneyland and a Space Jam movie night on the beach, I finally asked her out on a date and never looked back.

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