NIKITA & JAMES
Picture this: You walk into a raucous college dorm only to be greeted by a shirtless boy biking around the hallway. That was Nikita Chauhan’s (29, a structural and architectural engineer) first encounter with James Esser (29, a computer and software engineer). The interaction left her “very confused but also intrigued,” she says. “From then on, he was constantly a mystery to me.” It wasn’t until their third year of college that Nikita’s curiosity about James turned into something more—though they’d both had crushes on each other since that fateful biking encounter.
Nikita told James about an architectural history class she was taking that semester. “James was fascinated and signed up for the class
