Nick and Kayleigh both went to high school together, but they didn't start hanging out until sophomore year of college at NDSU. Nick lived with one of Kayleigh's good friends, and they had a washer and dryer in their apartment, and since Kayleigh didn't want to pay to do her laundry in her apartment building, she would pay the guys in food in order to do laundry at their place. Eventually, Kayleigh started rewashing clean clothes, just to spend more time over there because she thought Nick was pretty cute. Nick quickly fell for Kayleigh's sass and cooking skills and the rest is history.