During the couple’s writing process, Nicola—who was friends with David first before they began dating (a classic romantic comedy come to life)—even found herself gaining that competitive spark once again.
“One of the things I really liked and started crushing on about him is he’s a great writer, and I just remember being in class and feeling competitive in a way,” she explained. “When you’re younger, you’re kind of more competitive. So that was one of the first things I fell in love with about him.”
Indeed, Nicola knew she had met the boy she would marry—and would eventually write with.
“Just to feel that little bit of competitiveness again,” she shared about their short story, “it was just really great to see what he would come up with. I would do something, and then he would take a pass over it, and I was like, ‘Oh, we’ve created this third thing.’ It doesn’t sound like me, and it doesn’t sound like him. It sounds like this third person.”
As for what she hopes readers take away, Nicola wants to emphasize the importance of what teenagers experience in life—a sentiment that she values within her own.
