fancy seeing you here!

It's usually not great when a relationship is founded on a lie, but that's where ours begins. After making an appearance at our school network's fundraiser, Clare headed to the coat check to call it a night. Before she could leave, her friend Marnie stopped her and said, "You're not leaving are you? My friend has been trying to talk to you all night! He think's you're cute." After having a Facebook photo thrust in her face, Clare skeptically allowed Marnie to give Chris her number. Marnie took this information back to Chris. "Clare thinks you're cute! She wants you to text her!" Earlier in the night, Marnie had been trying to convince Chris to talk to Clare, but he refused, preferring the company of his friends rather than to approach a stranger at a work function. Nevertheless, the belief that each thought the other was cute is what brought Chris and Clare together for their first date at Queen Mary Tavern on April 9, 2019, where they drank Moscow mules and had the best and last first date of their lives.