Kyra was a Residential Assistant for Crown College at UC Santa Cruz, and Alex lived in an apartment with Kyra's co-worker, Carlos. Carlos had invited the RA team over to get ready for the Crown/Merril Semi-Formal dance that night. There, Kyra and Alex met for the first time. Alex had no intention of going to the dance until Kyra asked him to. Alex quickly got ready, and the group left for the event. Within minutes of walking in the doors, Kyra walked over to Alex and grabbed his arm and asked "Will you be my fake boyfriend for the night?" Alex responded, "Yes ma'am!" and stayed by her side the rest of the evening. It still took Alex an entire year to figure out that Kyra was not in fact joking, but was really bad at flirting.