We started dating in Spring of 2023. But in order to know how we got there, we need to back up to January 2023. I was on campus at Luther for J-term and Darby was too. As all great Gen Z love stories start, I followed Darby on Instagram, from there he added me on Snapchat. We snapchatted on and off and it would usually go like this... Darby: "how was class" Emma: "boring" Darby: "wanna come over later?" Emma: *opened your snapchat* Darby quickly assumed I wasn't interested in talking and pretty much dropped it from there. Now, we fast foward to spring break 2023. I am in Florida with my family, Darby is home in Colorado with his family. I posted on my Snapchat story and Darby slid up saying "hey thats where my grandparents live!". From that snap forward, we talked the rest of spring break. We continued to talk for more of the semester. I had gone down to Luther to visit some friends over the weekend since during the week, I was in Rochester doing nursing clinicals. We had decided to go out that night. I had casually let Darby know I would be out that night and we agreed if we saw each other we'd say hi. As my friends and I walked into "Your Place" (Decorah's local college bar) my eyes locked on Darby's. He waved and I quickly put my head down and headed to the opposite side of the bar too nervous to actually say hi. After a little liquid courage, I finally decided to go say hi. We sat at the bar and talked the rest of the night.