Unlike most couples, Scott and Eva can’t really remember their first time meeting. Scott attended Orangewood Christian School from kindergarten through senior year, so when Eva started in August 2013—their freshman year of high school—he remembers noticing her in their English class, but not much beyond there.

Similarly, when Eva started at Orangewood, she was completely overwhelmed by the sea of new faces after having attended a different school for all of K-8. She was mainly focused on making new friends, so she only vaguely remembers seeing the Morell twins on a few occasions since their lockers were close by (although Eva admits she did not know which twin was Scott and which was Chase for far too long a time).

Fast-forward to 2016: It’s fall of senior year, and Eva and Scott are seated just a few desks apart in AP Literature. The class was small, with five guys and two girls, so Eva and Scott had the opportunity to get to know one another in a low-stakes environment. It didn’t take long for either party to notice that they’d developed a warm, conversational relationship, one where they felt comfortable cracking jokes and sharing details of their personal lives. This took both completely by surprise: To find such a kindred spirit after hardly interacting for four years was, in a word, shocking.

Eva’s a storyteller by nature, so she’d tell you that spring of 2017 was the "rising action" of their love story. By this time, Eva and Scott had been communicating with one another via Snapchat for months on end, even nurturing a respectable streak. Some nights, the two stayed up till one or two a.m. having incredibly personal conversations. But then, next morning, the two would see each other in class and attempt to brush off that such events had transpired… the tension was palpable!!!!

One time, Scott and Eva got into a great conversation right before seventh period. Eva remembers that Scott offered to "walk her to class" so they could finish their conversation (the school was the size of a thumbtack, they probably walked a tenth of a mile). As they stood outside of the door to Eva’s Environmental Science class, they lost track of time until Mrs. Wallis opened the door and saw the two standing there, flirting and grinning stupidly. "Are you coming in or not?" she asked, hustling Eva into the doors. Eva took a seat at her desk and looked up to see Scott standing at the window, waving goodbye, before taking off to his free period. Scott’s characteristic tenderness had Eva fully smitten, but she was too afraid to act on it at the time, knowing that they were soon to be going separate ways.

Graduation was quickly approaching, though, and the two had chosen colleges pretty far apart from one another: Eva had decided to attend Samford University in Birmingham, AL, and Scott would head to University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. With a six-hundred-mile distance, the two bid one another farewell at a friend’s grad party and assumed they’d probably never see each other again. This thought made both of them sad, but neither one of them would admit it to each other (or even themselves).