Jake and I both were attending UNC Charlotte (2013 at the time), me in undergrad and him in graduate school. After we met we had realized that we had lived in the same apartment complex and in the same building and had never met! We had gone to the same events, parties and even shared a few of the same friends. We finally met in October of 2013. I went out with a few girlfriends for Halloween dressed up as Minnie Mouse, duh. My girlfriends had told me that I should find someone to dance with and I said, 'Well, I like tall guys', looked up and pointed in Jake's direction. As I went up to him, I ran into a friend and he knew him! I asked him if he could introduce us, we danced jokingly to Bohemian Rapsody (yes, singing every lyric)...One month later he asked me to be his girlfriend and that was the beginning of it all.

It was a gorgeous October night in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was a Friday night and Uptown Charlotte was teeming with people dressed up in their Halloween best. One of my best friends, Johnny Markey, was in town and we had decided that it would be funny if I dressed as the video game character Mario and he dressed as his brother Lugi. Once he and I had planted our flag in a corner of the dance floor, a Charlotte buddy of mine came up to me and told me that Minnie Mouse knew how to dance. I walked up to Minnie and introduced myself. We proceeded to dance the night away, not even me pulling out the fishing reel dance scared her away. Even with my best efforts of trying to scare her off, here we are more than 5 years later.