Before Mikayla and Shane ever formally met, it seemed like they were orbiting around each other, waiting to collide and fall in love. Shane was away at college but would come home from time to time, and Mikayla would be at Shane’s family's home since she had been friends with Shane's sister Nicole for years, but they never truly crossed paths until 2018.

They finally collided on what seemed like a normal day, when Shane decided to come along with Nicole and Mikayla to go jump around on trampolines and try not to launch any small children into the stratosphere in the process. Something clicked that day, with Shane in the driver’s seat, sneaking glances at Mikayla in the back seat. Shane knew what he had to do.

Fast forward several weeks, Shane asks Mikayla to “hang out” (absolutely no game whatsoever). In Shane’s mind, this was the first date, while Mikayla was totally oblivious to that idea, thinking that we were just going to see a movie and hang out. However, Mikayla had been harboring the fact that she'd had a crush on Shane for years before they had ever met. The stage was set.

On the “first date” they went to see whatever movie was available, quietly just desperate for a reason to see each other. It ended up being the horror movie Slender, which neither of them would recommend to anyone.. ever. Do not watch it.

After sitting through a painfully bad movie, and laughing at how truly terrible it was, they went to the finest establishment they could find that was still open, none other than Taco Bell. There, they sat in the parking lot, taking turns playing their favorite sad songs and talking about anything and everything for hours, totally losing track of the time. Realizing how late it had become, Shane rushed to get Mikayla home, forgetting to turn on his headlights in the process, and immediately being pulled over by a cop. Extremely smooth.

Thoroughly embarrassed, Shane did his best to play it off, and then they headed home. In Mikayla’s driveway, they did the awkward first date goodbyes, and with his heart pounding in his throat Shane took the leap and went in for a kiss, taking Mikayla completely by surprise. But as I’m sure you can tell; the rest is history.

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