Zach and Meera both played soccer at Cornell and saw each other around school quite a bit, but Zach could never get up the nerve to say anything to Meera other than "hey, Khaleesi!" (as in Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones--Meera had platinum blonde hair at the time). Needless to say, Meera avoided Zach, fearing that this was his one and only 'joke'. During the summer of 2017, Zach and Meera both stayed on the Cornell campus over break to take classes. Meera began to discover that Zach was actually a pretty fun and sweet guy, thankfully with a portfolio of jokes unrelated to Game of Thrones. During a backyard barbecue that summer, Meera threw not one, but two water balloons at Zach. Clearly (at least to Zach) she was trying to tell him something. With newfound confidence, Zach asked Meera out to dinner the next day, and the rest is history <3