We have a rather...unconventional story. In August of 2014 we officially met through our involvement with athletics. Cagen was a football player for TLU and I was an Athletic Training student at the time. We came to know who the other person was but didn't have a real conversation until the summer of 2015 when he was dating one of my roommates. These conversations usually took place over bowls of oatmeal while watching GMA. That next fall I was coming down to the lobby of his dorm with some of my friends when I stopped to talk to someone else in his group. That night we exchanged phone numbers and he promised to teach me how to dance. For the next week we spent more time together and things got more serious than just a friendship. I decided I didn't want that quite yet and we didn't talk for a few months. On Halloween night I went to a party with the guy I was seeing at the time and ended up getting into an argument with him (a common occurrence) as well as babysitting one of my friends. Cagen and his (not so) impeccable timing decided that this was the night to try to win me over and lets just say it didn't go as he had planned. By this time we had began spending time together as friends. I had ended things with the guy I was seeing and by the next week, Cagen made good on his promise to teach me how to dance and we went to a dance hall for one of my friends birthdays. I had started to have feelings for him at this point but assumed that I wouldn't get a chance with him again and decided to ignore my feelings. At the end of the night Cagen looked at me and said, "What would you do if I tried to kiss you?" I replied, "Why don't you find out?" And the rest...is history

I remember the first time I ever saw Amanda. I had just gotten out of football practice and I was heading to the cafeteria to go eat with our friend Johnny Garcia. Johnny and I had just walked out of the field house when we passed the athletic training storage room. As we walk by Johnny says, "Dang, she's cute." I said, "Yes she is beautiful." It took nearly a year after that for us to actually have our first conversation. I was dating one of Amanda's roommates at the time. In the early morning is when our conversations would take place. She would be eating something healthy, and I would be eating something filled with sugar or protein that my girlfriend at the time had made me. We really and truly bonded over the silents and the awkwardness in the room because Amanda wasn't to fond of the girl I was dating. I remember looking at Amanda in the morning and thinking to my self, "Dang, I am for sure with the wrong girl." So, fast forward a few months. I was a RA while I was at TLU and one night I was working and Andrew Leal was keeping me company down in the lobby. A few minutes had passed since I started my shift and Amanda had walked in with some of her friends. who of which, I had zero clues who they were. I just knew that she was the most beautiful girl in the world. So I was able to get enough courage and somehow end up with her number that night. Hit the fast forward button for a few months again. My first attempt to date Amanda didn't go to well, I more or less got a hard rejection. So, I go on about my life and end up at Halloween party, which was not the greatest night of my life, by the way. Amanda was trying to be a support beam for on of our friends who had lost his mind by this time in the night, when I decided to swoop in and help. I wasn't much of a help, and I somehow got slapped somewhere in there. Which was completely fine, because after that I had finally had Amanda as mine.