We were best friends all throughout college.
So four years and then–
Oh, so you were friendzoned.
Yes.
Got it.
Very friendzone.
Yes, yeah.
Oh yeah.
I was about as far into that zone as you can go.
Hey guys, it’s Arianna Davis, and we’re here for a very special episode of How Two
Love, brought to you by Netflix’s new movie “When We First Met.”
We’re talking to four real life couples to talk about the ways they first met, and
how they found love.
I wanna start from the beginning of your love story, when did you two first meet?
Oh man…
I remember that story clear as day but Christina do you remember that one?
Nope, not at all.
He just kinda popped up outta nowhere.
We met at the club.
We have a mutual friend and she had introduced us.
It was fourth of July...
He saw sparks when he saw me.
There was no fireworks to begin with.
It wasn’t one of those love stories, right.
She was dancing with her friends and I just zoned in and saw her.
I just immediately was like, “I have to go talk to her right now.”
I introduced myself to her, because I had just gotten out of an all guys school and
I was really excited to see girls.
It seemed like she didn’t even notice me.
I’m like “alright.”
So I started talking to her and then I asked her for her number one night, cause we were
leaving work–we both closed.
And she was like “you can ask me for it tomorrow.”
I was like…
Tomorrow?
I just didn’t wanna give him my number.
Persistence goes a long way, clearly.
As I was getting off the subway he was like, “Wait!”
And this is where our stories differ.
He thinks that I was on a white horse and I got off and was like, “wait!”
Held the door–
It was like one of those Baywatch moments, wind blowing–
He said he got my attention and asked for my number.
And I said yes.
I was not looking for anyone, and he wasn’t my type.
But he was so nice.
I was very happy I gave you my number.
Yeah? I was too.
Okay so you knew that things were in the friendzone but was there ever a point where you were
like, “maybe actually this is moving somewhere.”
Not at all.
I took that thought and put it back here in my brain somewhere and it kind of just got
covered in cobwebs and when all of a sudden I pulled that box back out and was like, “Oh,
I forgot what was in here.”
We had a dance.
So then she ended up going with me as a friend.
But a friend that also made out with me that night.
So that worked out well.
That worked out very well for you.
We started going out around October.
Around Columbus day or something like that.
He knew the exact date.
He said “it was Columbus day, 3 p.m., we made it official.
Yeah, I remember.
I think neither one of us really wanted to–
“Wanna hang?”
Yeah, like, “You wanna hang out?”
So we tried to keep it casual.
He made me laugh...a lot.
And that’s huge for me.
He texted me and invited me on a date but I didn’t know what a date was.
So I actually brought a friend.
So now I’m taking two people on a date.
So I’m like, “Julia, what do you want?
Julia’s friend, what do you want?”
Was it ever really challenging for you guys?
In March I broke up with him.
Cause I had a lot going on!
I was in school and then, you know, other family issues and all that.
So how did you end up getting back together?
I haven’t had one of those best friends that you tell each other everything down to
the single detail until he came along.
So, I was like, “dang I really miss him. I like him a lot.”
So when did you know it was love?
When did you first say, “I think I love this person.”
It was around Easter.
I only remember that cause there were Peeps candy.
He loves sour candy.
And I set up this scavenger hunt and I put different sour candies in different parts
of my room and around the apartment.
And with each sour candy I left a note.
The last note said–
I love you.
Yeah.
Oh my god.
Hold on.
I might cry.
We're sitting on the Delaware River in tubes.
It was 95 degrees, just laying out.
And I was just like “I love you.”
Aww.
I said it back. I loved her, too.
And I already had by that point for sure.
So if you guys could travel back in time and change anything about your relationship is
there anything that you would do differently?
Our Sophomore year of college,
Christina came up with an idea to just put Crystal Palace vodka in a cup.
And pink lemonade powder and just mix it and drink that.
And we drank that together.
And if we could change anything I wouldn’t have done that.
Cause I felt terrible the next day.
I wish I would have listened more from the beginning.
In arguments, I was always just quick to react.
I wish I would’ve just thought about her opinion more.
I don’t think I would do anything differently, down to the breakup cause that distance helped
build a solid friendship.
You know, you can’t have a relationship without a solid friendship.
I don’t have any regrets because I feel like the path that we took is what led us
to here and I’m happy where I’m at.
Aw, I love it.
Okay, so we have a clip to show you guys from Netflix’s new movie, “When We First Met.”
You know when you are about to fulfill your destiny?
I waited too long and then I got hugged.
You are so awesome.
I left, never knowing what went wrong.
Bye!
Bye.
But I figured I would at least get a second chance with her.
Until fate kicked me in my ballsack the very next day when she met Ethan.
Can I help you with that?
And you know why she needed more cereal?
Because I ate all of her Cookie Crisp.
Do you relate to that clip we just watched?
Do you ever feel like maybe you could’ve just missed your chance?
I mean I could have thought it kind of broke down when she left me.
But fate was just like “nah, man, she don’t know what she’s doing.”
And we’ve been through a lot so it’s just like, if this ain’t fate, then I don’t know what is.
Definitely.
Yeah I guess it was pretty unlikely that we’d meet.
Yes.
Yeah, I think definitely.
Marist actually was my last choice of schools to go to.
If I never went there I would’ve never met Connor.
There were lots of moments where we could’ve said, “it’s too hard.”
But instead we said, “We found a needle in a haystack and we’re going to keep it
and treasure it.”
That is fate.
That is really fate right there.
Fate brings people together in all sorts of ways, so you never know when you might find true love.