Nicole and Triet met in 2014 at Virginia Tech and were friends throughout college. They ate lunch together on occasion (Turner's dining hall Q'doba always). They hung out in the lounge of their dorm as underclassmen. He would always scoop her into a full bear hug when they crossed paths on the drillfield... She thought nothing of it (maybe he does that to all his friends?). In the fall of 2017, Nicole returned to school for her senior thesis semester and saw Triet again at a party. She asked him to catch up over dinner sometime (as friends), but he INSISTS that she asked him out on their first date. So he picked her up after studio ended and they had dinner at West End dining hall. Dinner turned into talking for hours and then becoming inseparable for the remainder of the year. Two cross-country moves and one dog later... here we are.