It was 2:00 a.m. in Bay Head, New Jersey, the kind of summer night where the air is warm, the streets are quiet, and bad ideas feel like great ones. It was also Emily’s birthday... already a night destined to be memorable. Down the Jersey Shore, Pierce and his co-best man, Nicky, were doing what any two (slightly misguided) guys would do at that hour: looking for a ride home. When a car pulled into a driveway, they didn’t hesitate. They walked right up and started knocking on the door - because obviously, this had to be an uber. It wasn’t. Inside the car was Emily and her friends, who had absolutely not signed up to be anyone’s Uber that night. One unexpected moment turned into a conversation, which turned into laughter, which turned into a night neither of them could have planned - but both of them would never forget. What started as a wrong assumption at 2 a.m. became the right person at exactly the right time. A birthday night, a Jersey Shore summer, a mistaken Uber and somehow, the beginning of forever. And thank God it did. That night Pierce told Emily that he would take her out on a date, and Emily's response, "Yeah, right!". To Emily's surprise, Pierce did text her the next day. The rest is history.