Rebecca's side of the story:

I was a senior in high school, but all my classes were on a college campus because I was dual enrolled. One class in particular, chemistry, I was not doing so well in. For this course, I had to take a lecture portion as well as a lab portion. However, talking during lecture was a bit more difficult than talking during lab. So one day during lab, I decided to ask the table next to mine if we could make a Snapchat group chat to help each other with homework and studying because I needed the help. They agreed, so I passed them a paper to write down their Snapchat usernames on so I could make the group chat. Out of the four guys at the table, I only got three of their snapchats, one of them said they didn't have it. Two of the three accepted the friend request and invite to the chat immediately. And the third one, two whole months later, finally accepted my request. When he accepted my friend request, I could see that he had a video posted on his story. In the video, he was jet skiing with dolphins! And considering we lived in the same area, I wanted to know where this was, so I messaged him and asked. At some point in his response, I remember him saying, "I can take you out for a ride one day if you'd like." I was taken aback by his boldness and thought that he was pretty cute so I responded with something along the lines of, "Bruh...for real? That'd be so cool." Anyway, we talked non-stop for the following week, and on April 4th, 2020, Lawson McKinney asked me to be his girlfriend. He also told me our first date would be jet skiing with dolphins. Fast forward to December 3rd, 2023, I became his fiancé. And come May 30th, I'll be his wife and he'll be my husband :)

(And spoiler alert: he still hasn't taken me jet skiing with dolphins. Maybe one day he will.) (And funny story: Lawson ended up telling me that the fourth guy at his table, the one who didn't give me his Snapchat because "he didn't have the app" actually just didn't want to give his username to a random girl. And this guy today is Lawson's best man, Aidan.)

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