Jack and I met at an off-campus party while we were attending The University of California Santa Cruz (Go Banana Slugs!). We were both sophomores and still living on campus. It was my birthday and I had my night already planned out- watching "The Notebook" in my top bunk with some tea. Those plans quickly changed when my friends Katie & Shane said there was a house party we needed to go to and celebrate my "golden birthday". So we took the " Night Owl" bus down to the base of campus and walked the rest of the way to this house party. I saw Jack as soon as I walked in standing across the living room with some of his friends. I intended to have a chat with him at some point but needed some time to work out my plan. Thankfully, Jack had the same idea and decided to come up to me and say hello first! We got to play one round of beer-pong (to which we lost horribly) before someone rallied people up about saying " the cops are here!!". I was out of that house faster than I could say bye to Jack or tell him that I'd love to see him again. At this point in the story, Jack likes to point out that there weren't any cops, but quite frankly, I wasn't about to wait around and see. Over the next few weeks, Jack would find me on Facebook and ask me on tea date!!