According to her: Brennan was holding court in the lobby of our law school. Relatively new to the group of soon to be friends and a little bewildered by this guy who was holding the attention of such a large group, I cracked a joke from directly behind him at his expense, expecting to get under his skin. Instead, Brennan whipped his head around, looked me up and down, and stuck out his hand to introduce himself. After a week of trading insults, we became best friends. According to him: I cracked a joke, Ava had a retort. I was interested.