Derek and Angela met in a funny way: Derek showed up on Angela's doorstep, out of the blue. At that point, they'd both decided to embrace the single life for the foreseeable future. Dating was a bust, they each had more dogs than most of their friends thought they should, and that was company enough for them. Then Angela found a great deal on a little farmhouse in Topsham, and so she started showing her apartment on Lake Eden. That's where Derek stepped in, literally. He came to look at the apartment, and sparks started flying from the first moment. Angela magically summoned a swimming parade of adorable ducklings, Derek made an Outkast reference that landed (he really is cooler than a polar bear's toenails, it turns out), and they couldn't believe their luck when she said, "I have four dogs," and he countered with, "I have three!" They found excuses to text each other, and then Angela found a sneaky way to ask Derek on a date. The first gift he brought her was a bunch of cardboard boxes (she was moving, remember), and then he started bringing her flowers. They forgot about being single for the foreseeable future. They became pretty much inseparable. Fast-forward a very little bit, and they had moved in together in the little farmhouse at the very end of a long dirt road in Topsham, with more dogs than anyone needs and all the love you could ask for.