We first met through a mutual friend during a few rounds of casual pickleball—emphasis on casual, because the boys were always at least 30 minutes late. Over a couple of months, the four of us played a few times, and little did we know, we were both secretly asking our mutual friend about the other. Eventually, after one of our games, Nick chased me down to my car and asked me out. Our first date was dinner and a full evening at Lagoon (10/27/23)—an eight-hour adventure that somehow flew by. The conversation never stopped, we laughed the whole time, and not once did we get tired of each other. From that day on, we were pretty much locked in.