We met through mutual friends in our Freshman year of school at Lynchburg College. Sammie would stop by Derrick's dorm room to visit her friend Sal only to find him gone most of the time and Derrick hanging out playing video games. After this happened a few times, she decided to stick around and see what this Derrick person was like. That friendship turned into a prank war that culminated in stealing each other's furniture (Sammie won). Near the end of the year, Derrick decided to make his move by creating a PowerPoint presentation about how great he is. They spent the summer after Skyping regularly and by the fall it was clear that this was more than a friendship. On September 21, 2011 he sealed the deal with some flowers and a letter and the rest is history!