Jordan was in a Pikachu button down shirt. Meredith brought her dog. Jordan's unique style and ebullient laughter grabbed her attention immediately and Meredith's total comedic destruction of the room alongside Tuna The Adorable Road Dog caught his eye. These two goofballs started chatting while Meredith was working outside of Washington, DC and pretty soon she was traveling back to Chapel Hill every other weekend to trick Jordan into going on multiple group dates where Meredith always managed to invite siblings and friends at the last minute. Finally they went on a date one on one and the romantic stylings of the Sharknado franchise pulled them closer together than ever. After dating for a while they moved in together and started new jobs right before the Pandemic Year of 2020. Meredith was consistently pranking Jordan into eating cauliflower out of spite and Jordan never missed an opportunity to mislead her into thinking that Dylan and Cole Sprouse had developed a line of lifted trucks for city boys. (SWOUSE !!!) Or some other such nonsense. After slogging away in the Emergency Department during 2020 as a permanent staff nurse, Meredith got the opportunity to take a travel job in Maui. Jordan realized how important this was for her and he encouraged and supported her even after deciding Hawaii was too far for him to travel for 3 months at a time. They struck a deal to stay together, stay loyal to each other, and both worked to ensure their relationship could survive a temporary long distance separation. It was (and still is) difficult to live across the world from each other but they both grew as individuals while apart and when Jordan came to visit Maui, Meredith was more sure than ever that he was the one. Jordan was also sure but Meredith was planning and plotting already and had concocted a plan to ask for his hand in marriage. After returning home from her first Maui contract, Meredith proposed at Zog's Pool Hall, the bar where they first met, with a ring of stars and skulls that perfectly suited Jordan's taste and sense of style. He said yes and then started planning his own proposal and had a gorgeous ring designed that he presented during Meredith's second Maui contract when he came to visit again. Jordan and Meredith plan to spend the rest of their lives together as the Halestrong family, laughing uproariously and pranking each other until one of them goes into respiratory distress from cackling until they literally can't breathe. Hopefully Jordan will go first and Meredith will be able to resuscitate him. We'll see !!!