Christine and Brian were high school juniors when Brian approached her asked for her name and proceeded to talk and create a friendship.

Both Brooklyn born and raised, Camille and Jamal found comfort in their similar Trinidadian backgrounds. They were raised in the same church and as teenagers crossed paths as Camille’s brother played on the same youth basketball league as Jamal.

Both natives of Staten Island, NY, Rebekah and Shola crossed paths many times before what one would define as actually meeting.

Whitney and Dennard met when they were both attending Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. Whitney’s best friend had a class with Dennard and decided to introduce them because she felt they had so much in common that they would hit it off.

On the day Aisha and David met they had both planned to be in different places with the friends who brought them together.

When Antoinette met Dewayne she was at home in New York for the summer between her sophomore and junior years of college. She was working a summer gig that her mother helped her land while he was also working a temp-job at the same location.

Angela was out for a night at the bar in her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri with her girlfriends when Ashton, visiting from Chicago, showed up with a crew of his own.