Laura and John both moved to New York City to attend NYU's Summer Publishing Institute. Laura had a not-cute cough and happened to be sitting two seats away from John, whose sometimes vicious side-eye caught her attention. As fate would have it, Laura and John were assigned to the same group, John, the only guy in ten people. John was immediately attracted to her sarcasm, and Laura was determined to win over side-eye guy. The two were further pushed together, having been assigned complementary roles in this small group: Art Director and Assistant Art Director. Laura likes to remind him he was her assistant, John likes to point out that his role won an award. After weeks of toiling away on the project, a friendship was formed—both knowing much more was to come.