Katie and Khoa first met at Khoa's house party at UMass Amherst when she was a Junior and he a senior. He had arrived late with a (totally legally obtained) street sign which was nonetheless a great conversation starter where they soon found out they had public health class together. Eventually, they met again during public health class and began sitting next to each other. One day right before class, Katie had come back from the WEB Du Bois Library where she was forced into buying eight pumpkin muffins with her Ucard. Khoa was waiting for class when he saw Katie and called her over. Katie, enthusiastically offered Khoa one of her muffins but little did she know Khoa had munchies so intense, that he promptly took the muffin and began devouring it without realizing he didn't have any water. The muffin quickly turned to glue in his mouth and he was chewing for years until they finally met again after college in Boston. Katie had been living in the city for a few years and Khoa had recently moved. They bonded over video games, anime, and exploring the city alone in their free time and decided why not continue their exploration together! The first place they went to together, was the LA Burdick Chocolate house in Copley where Khoa shared Katie's chocolate obsession. Later on, Khoa took Katie to the Bubour Cha Cha restaurant in China Town for their first official date and a few weeks after, asked her to be his girlfriend and the rest is history!