We met our freshman year of high school. We had a couple of classes together that whole year and even sat right next to each other at one point, but we never noticed each other until the end of the year in Algebra. Our teacher assigned groups of our class to work on projects together alphabetically by our middle names. Payton's being Michael and mine being Nicole, we got paired up. We both thought it was the coolest thing that our middle names were close because we really wanted to work with each other (lol, freshman). After we had gotten paired up, little did we know that would be the beginning of forever!