00:00We were best friends all throughout college, so four years and then...
00:05It was a friend zone.
00:05Yes, very friend zone.
00:07Yes, yes. Oh yeah, I was about as far into that zone as you can go.
00:12Hey guys, it's Ariana Davis and we're here for a very special episode of How to Love,
00:17brought to you by Netflix's new movie, When We First Met.
00:20We're talking to four real-life couples about the ways they first met and how they found love.
00:25I want to start from the beginning of your love story. When did you two first meet?
00:30Oh man.
00:32I remember that story clear as day, but...
00:34Sue, do you remember that one?
00:35No, not at all.
00:37He just kind of popped up out of nowhere.
00:40We met at the club.
00:42We have a mutual friend and she had introduced us.
00:45It was, what did you lie?
00:47I saw sparks when you saw me.
00:49There was no like fireworks to begin with, like it wasn't one of those love stories, right?
00:54She was dancing with her friends and then I just kind of like zoned in.
00:58When I saw her, I just immediately was like, I have to go talk to her right now.
01:01I introduced myself to her because I had just gotten out of an all-guys school and I was really
01:06excited to see girls.
01:08It seemed like she didn't even notice me. I'm like, all right.
01:10So I started talking to her and then I was asking for her number one night because he was leaving
01:14work.
01:15We both closed and she was just like, um, you can ask me for it tomorrow.
01:20I was like...
01:21Tomorrow?
01:21I just didn't want to give him my number.
01:24Persistence goes a long way, clearly.
01:26As I was getting off the subway, he was like, wait, and this is where our stories differ.
01:31He thinks that I like, I was on a white horse and I got off and I was like, wait.
01:35It was like when it was Baywatch moments, like wind blowing.
01:38He got my attention and asked for my number and I said, yes.
01:43I was not looking for anyone and he wasn't my type, but he was so nice.
01:47I was very happy I gave you my number.
01:49Yeah?
01:50That was cute.
01:51Oh my gosh.
01:52Okay, so you knew kind of that like things were in the friend zone,
01:55but was there ever a point where you were like, maybe actually this is moving somewhere?
01:59Um, not at all.
02:00Like I took that thought and like put it back here in my brain somewhere and it kind of just
02:05got covered in cobwebs.
02:06And when that like, all of a sudden I pulled that box back out and I was like, oh, I
02:11forgot what was in here.
02:12Um, we had a, um, like a dance.
02:15So then she ended up going with me as a friend, but a friend that also made out with me
02:19that night.
02:20So that worked out well.
02:22That worked out very well for you.
02:24We started going out in around October, right?
02:26Around Columbus Day, something like that.
02:28He did the exact thing.
02:29He said it was Columbus Day, 3 p.m.
02:32We made it official.
02:33Yo, I remember.
02:34I think neither one of us really wanted to, yeah, like you want to hang out.
02:38So we tried to keep it casual.
02:40He made me laugh, like a lot.
02:43And that's, that's like huge for me.
02:45He texted me and invited me for a date, but I didn't know it's a date.
02:51So, um, I actually brought a friend.
02:54So now I'm taking two people on a date.
02:56So I'm like, Julia, what do you want?
02:58Julia's friend, what do you want?
03:00Was it ever really challenging for you guys?
03:02In March, I broke up with him because I had a lot going on.
03:05I was in school and then, you know, other family issues and all that.
03:08So how did you end up getting back together?
03:11Hmm.
03:13I haven't had one of those best friends that you tell each other
03:16everything down to a single detail until like he came along.
03:20So I was like, dang, I really miss him.
03:23I like him a lot.
03:24So when did you know it was love?
03:26Like, when did you first say like, I think I love this person?
03:29It was around Easter.
03:31Yeah.
03:31I only remember that because there were peeps.
03:33Candy.
03:34He loves sour candy.
03:35And I set up the scavenger hunt and I put different sour candies
03:38like in different parts of my room and like around the apartment
03:41and like with each sour candy, I left a note.
03:43The last note.
03:44The last note said, I love you.
03:46Yeah.
03:46Yeah.
03:47Oh my God.
03:48Hold on.
03:49I'm going to cry.
03:50I'm going to cry.
03:51We're sitting on the Delaware River and tubes.
03:53It was like 95 degrees.
03:54It's just like laying out.
03:55And I was just like, I love you.
03:56Oh.
03:57I said it back.
03:57I loved her too.
03:58And I already have by that point for sure.
04:00Aw.
04:01So if you guys could travel back in time and change anything
04:04about your relationship, is there anything that you would do differently?
04:07Our sophomore year of college, Christina came up with an idea
04:10to just put Crystal Palace vodka in a cup and pink lemonade powder
04:17and just mix it and drink that.
04:19And we drank that together.
04:20And if I could change anything, I wouldn't have done that.
04:23Because I felt terrible the next day.
04:25I wish I would have listened more from the beginning.
04:27Like in arguments and stuff, I was just always quick to just react.
04:29I wish I would have thought about her opinion more.
04:33I don't think I would do anything differently, like down to the breakup
04:36because that distance helped build a solid friendship.
04:40You know, you can't have a relationship without a solid friendship.
04:43I don't have any regrets because I feel like the path that we took
04:46is what led us to here and I'm happy at where I'm at.
04:50Aw, I love it.
04:51Okay, so we have a little clip to show you guys from Netflix's new movie
04:54When We First Met.
04:55You know, when you are about to fulfill your destiny,
04:59I waited too long and then I got hugged.
05:09You're so awesome.
05:11Yeah.
05:11I left never knowing what went wrong.
05:14Bye.
05:14Bye.
05:15But I figured I would at least get a second chance with her.
05:19Until fate kicked me in my ball sack the very next day when she met Ethan.
05:29Can I help you with that?
05:39And you know why she needed more cereal?
05:42Because I ate all of her cookie crisps.
05:46Do you relate to that clip we just watched?
05:47Like, do you ever feel like maybe you could have just missed your chance?
05:50I mean, I could have thought it kind of broke down when she left me.
05:54But you know, fate was just like, nah man, she don't know what she's doing, you know?
05:57And we've been through a lot.
05:58So it's just like, if this ain't fate, then I don't know what it is.
06:02Definitely.
06:03Yeah, I guess it was pretty unlikely that we meet.
06:05Yeah.
06:06Yes.
06:06Yeah, I think definitely.
06:08Marist actually was my last choice of schools to go to.
06:12If I never went there, I would have never met Connor.
06:15There were lots of moments where we could have said, it's too hard.
06:18Yeah.
06:18But instead we said, we found a needle in a haystack and we're gonna like, keep it and treasure it.
06:23That is fate.
06:23That is really fate right there.
06:25I have to say.
06:26Fate brings people together in all sorts of ways.
06:28So you never know when you might find true love.
